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RE: In this house (PowerhouseCreatives Contest)
@wales, your stories get better and better. You should be publishing for money.
@wales, your stories get better and better. You should be publishing for money.
Thanks. Tell you what, you can be me agent, there's over a thousand stories here that I've done, maybe you can get them sold for me..
Ha ha yeah, that would be awesome. I have to get good at marketing my own material first. :-)
Thing is, there are lots of journals out there. Some pay well, some don't. A few of them take previously published material, but most of the best ones don't. It's a process and takes time. You have to research the markets, see where your stories might fit, read and follow each publication's guidelines, and send them something you think is worthy of their readership. Then wait until they make a decision.
It's not easy, and it's time consuming. Most people publishing on social media don't have the talent. They're good writers, a lot of them, but that's not enough. Everyone wants to be famous. I think you have the talent for wider readership.
Thanks for the compliment. I'm good at writing, but promoting my writing is something else that I shudder at doing these days. It's a shame that there are not writing scouts going around and reading up to find good writing for their publications, just like the football scouts do to find players..
Yeah, that would be nice. Wouldn't it?
It sure would, make things a whole lot easier..
You know, you could take the best of the best of your stories, compile them into a book and an e-book and sell them on Amazon. A little marketing and you could make a few extra dollars on them.
Already done that and I make around 8 dollars a month
That's a start. If you can sustain that for a period of time, you'll end up breaking even, at least, depending on what it cost you to put together.
It's free to put books on amazon, so it's all profit
That's true. Some authors pay someone to do the publishing part for them. Others do it all themselves. It sounds you did it all. That's an awesome way to fly.