By Eliot Gilbert Chapbooks seem to be the neglected middle child of the poetry world: younger sibling to the collection, and older sibling to the individual piece. As for fiction, it is obscure to the point of nearly nonexistent. This makes me sad because I view them as a wonderfully untapped medium to sample your work.…
Tag: self-publishing
Why I'll Likely Self-Publish My Novel
I’ve been struggling to find a literary agent for one of my two fiction novels for more than a year now. I’ve pitched the story at conferences and via email, and received a steady trickle of rejections. Mostly formulaic responses, some nicer than others, one or two with encouraging words, but all the same rejection…
Lessons of an Independent Author: The Power of Publicity
{Originally published at lisaakramer.com} I won’t deny it. I had this fantasy that I would wake up sometime during the month of December to discover that I had become an overnight best-selling author sensation. Of course that is pure fantasy in a world where hundreds of thousands of new books are published daily; the chances…