Wouldn’t that be nice to have readers reach out to me personally about my stories. You are a very lucky author indeed to have readers actually respond to your writing, besides just leaving reviews. This is what I hope for once I publish books or story collections.
At this time, I’ve published essays in a few anthologies and published young adult adventure stories in magazines. I’m assuming some of the stories connected to readers because Cricket Magazine has put out a few e-book and audio book collections with several of my stories in them. I do not receive any royalties on those collections, however, as Cricket pays first rights and may use the material again with no further payment.
But.
I get my publishing rights back. I’ve checked on that already. I may use my stories again to sell them myself after a certain period of time. Now…I just need time and experts to show me how to put together an e-book or two or maybe package a few stories, both previously published and not, for a collection of YA stories to sell online.
Which pushes me to get my website together. Victoriamarielees.com through hover. I still need to do this. I will tell you all when it is live.
My college
memoir is about 55,000 words now.
Do you know of
any small presses who publish memoirs? They don’t require agents, correct? I may
be trying small presses to publish my college memoir.
Does anyone have experience with P.O.D., print on demand, publishers? Could you share some insight with me?
Please feel free to offer any insight on this.
It will be interesting to see how you’ve tackled this month’s question. It’s wonderful having a topic to share our thoughts on each month. I am extremely thankful for all of you for being my sounding board and advisors in this writing and publishing journey.
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