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A contract, but is it worth it?

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Alistair Roberts

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I've been patiently waiting on a reply from a publisher and finally I got en email saying they love the novel (Merlin and Ceridwen) and would like to publish it. Living on a limited budget, I finally breathed a sigh of relief until I kept reading. As I am a new author, they want me to pay them a small fee to cover initial printing costs. Like, I don't have money to buy clothes f...........
Seriously though, since when do publishers ask you to pay them? Once actual sales start, I would get 25% on royalties, on net sale prices. Has anyone heard of anything like this?
 

Katie-Ellen

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They're a so-called vanity publisher, by the sound of it. They charge. You'd have to do the Marketing legwork yourself, I'd imagine. Whose job would it be to make the sales happen?
 
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Jennifer Stone

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yes i've had this twice one for £2,500 the other £8,900. unfortunately the only two offers of publication i've had. A literary agent i approached afterwards warned me against accepting offers that requires upfront payment.
 
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Alistair Roberts

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25% seems better than expected, but don't worry I'm not touching it. I might do a fairly length re-edit of it, and then re-self publish it until I get lucky! Thanks for the replies folks.
 
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