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At this point I’m just going to put it in an empty moonshine jug and send it out to sea (by way of the Mississippi).
That’s hilarious, abc 🙂
If an agent or editor discovered the jug washed onto some lonely beautiful shore, opened it up and found your ms, they might think it serendipitous.
More likely to happen this way than to get published by way of query!
I was thinking the same thing, Neil.
I could only hope!
Print out the manuscript in waterproof ink and paper and leave the moonshine in the jug. Not that I would ever bribe an agent or anything like that…
Anyway I’m going to self-publish, physically via smoke signals, and electronically via Morse Code.
Awesome.
The option to :
“I will self-publish first but would consider traditional if they offered.”
I have always heard that the traditional publishing houses wouldn’t even consider a manuscript if it has been self-published first.
Is this thinking incorrect?
Thanks