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publishing
julilly:
The only people who know for sure that what they write is going to be published is people who already have book deals. First time writers will never know if someone is going to decide to publish it because it could be years of shopping the book around before someone finally says yes.
And LuLu is basically a printing press, they will print and bind the book for you or do an eBook and you can either order however many copies you want, or have it publish on demand.
mare:
--- Quote from: yorkielover88 on September 06, 2010, 01:48:02 PM ---oh and talk to me about this "smaller publishing houses is the way to go" thing. Do you just send your book into one of these places and if they like it they'll publish it? i mean it cant be that simple can it? there has to be more? is it copy righted to you? do you make any money? there is soooo much info on google and I'm having trouble understanding it all.
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I was going to say something along the lines of what Julie just said. First you need to make the decision to go ahead and write your story and make it publish worthy. Sending out the manuscript comes much later. First step is to take the time to make sure you have something of good quality that people will want to read and as you go along, you'll be able to figure out the direction you want to go in.
mare:
--- Quote from: yorkielover88 on September 06, 2010, 01:55:01 PM ---I just guess I dont want to waste my time writing a real book if publishing is not a possibility.
Also does anyone on here happen to know anything about this lulu thing?
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If you don't want to waste your time writing it, that probably means it's not meant to be. If you really want to do it, you'll do it. You will never know if it is going to get published or not. It's just a desire you need to have.
Carter-Orange:
--- Quote from: yorkielover88 on September 06, 2010, 01:55:01 PM ---I just guess I dont want to waste my time writing a real book if publishing is not a possibility.
Also does anyone on here happen to know anything about this lulu thing?
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If writing is something you are serious about, then go for it.
yorkielover88:
I guess you guys are right. I just didn't know if publishing was something you have to have tons of money to do. Cause if that was the case there was no way I could afford it. But yeah, I guess I'll just start with a writing a story and go from there. My mom is really into book and really smart so maybe she can help me with any questions I have on formatting and grammar. I know she would help proof read it.
As for the story and turning a fan fic into one and the comment on doing that to far from normal. I can't even begin to imagine how hard it would be to turn it into a real story that people could read and not know it was first about bsb!
Random thought too... I wonder if all this info applies to doing a book of lots of poetry. I have a lot of poems and would love to cop right and publish them.
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