Is self-publishing on the rise? Is traditional publishing still going strong?
Time for my annual poll!
Now, obviously this is unscientific as the readership changes slightly from year to year and it’s not a randomized slice of authors, but it’s fun to get a snapshot of the current landscape.
Also, at the risk of messing up our year over year comparisons, I tweaked the poll to include hybrid publishing, which is a path more people are pursuing. If you don’t see a path that quite captures yours, just choose the closest and explain in the comments.
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It’s up to my agent now, I guess, but I don’t exactly have high hopes of an offer from a publisher in our current environment. If not, then I’ll self-publish the manuscript out on submission once my contract runs out. Same with my current WIP, which is only 35% written.
Two words, people! STONE TABLETS! These new-fangled papyrus scrolls will never catch on.
Original plan for my wip, a memoir, had been to publish traditional. That was changed to self-publish, maybe, to possibly now not publish at all. Hand it down to my grandson so he can know what his grandmother, who passed away before he was born, was like. I’ve already read portions of it to him and he was fascinated. He said, “Mom never told me Grandma Teresa was like this!”
I’m traditionally published with one book but finding it very hard to find an agent for another manuscript in the same genre (mystery/suspense). The 3 manuscripts that I’m querying are getting rejected. I’m considering self publishing with the crazy environment these days because who knows what will sell when the pandemic passes.