Self-Publishing A few things about indie and self-publishing

[ANDREW]

Hey Andrew!

Ideally, you should join a Huddle where we discuss this sort of thing quite regularly.

Tim is right, getting experience of the pub industry in the “traditional” way is an excellent way to (hopefully) work with good people and to learn how stuff gets done.

Many / most successful self-publishers (and why be any other sort of self-publisher?) get their start first in traditional publishing then leverage themselves to self-pub.

p.

Thanks Pete,

Say I'm writing a trilogy...could one ditch a publisher after the first book and self-pub to second two...or does one get locked in? (All wishful thinking of course).

 

[AgentPete]

Thanks Pete,

Say I'm writing a trilogy...could one ditch a publisher after the first book and self-pub to second two...or does one get locked in? (All wishful thinking of course).

Almost certainty not, if there’s a 3-book contract in place.

What happens sometimes is that the publisher might back out of the contract if the first book flops. You ought to be in a strong position to demand they pay you the full balance of the contract if this occurs.

At that point, you would then own the rights that you’d sold them, and you could do as you wished with them.

However, if you’ve signed a 3-book contract with a publisher who wants to publish all three books, but then you decide after book one that you’d like to revert the other two books’ rights, then you’ll have a difficult struggle on your hands.