• Café Life is the Colony's main hangout, watering hole and meeting point.

    This is a place where you'll meet and make writing friends, and indulge in stratospherically-elevated wit or barometrically low humour.

    Some Colonists pop in religiously every day before or after work. Others we see here less regularly, but all are equally welcome. Two important grounds rules…

    • Don't give offence
    • Don't take offence

    We now allow political discussion, but strongly suggest it takes place in the Steam Room, which is a private sub-forum within Café Life. It’s only accessible to Full Members.

    You can dismiss this notice by clicking the "x" box

News WriteMentor Novel and Picture Book Awards 2024 (Kidlit)

Please consider upgrading…
Invest in You. Get Full Membership now.
Hello, I am a first time author. After countless revisions two pro edits I have a manuscript ready for a middle-grade fantasy novel. Looking at the numbers I see a lot of downsides to the trad publishing route: 15% to agents + very low royalties from publishers. So I'm in a quandary. I would love the acceptance side of being chosen by an agent and the advance given by a publisher, but does the maths really add up, compared to self publishing. It just seems a bit of a dinosaur, the trad route. Help!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Further Articles from the Author Platform

Café Life Tag Cloud

2025 agent author authors blog book books cafe calls for submissions challenge character christmas competition conferences contest creative writing creativity editing fantasy fiction genre inspiration life literature litopia love motivation music new novel philosophy poetry prize publisher publishing reading review romance self-publishing sentence shakespeare short story stories story technology world write writer writers writing

Similar threads

Sarit
Self-Publishing Novel Marketing!
Replies
0
Views
413
Sarit
Sarit
Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day There is only one motive for writing a novel: to be published and read. To me ...
Replies
0
Views
536
Paul Whybrow
Paul Whybrow
Pamela Jo
Dandelion Break Truth or Novel-the Knifethrowers Tale
Replies
0
Views
383
Pamela Jo
Pamela Jo
Paul Whybrow
Thought for the Day No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can ...
Replies
7
Views
593
LJ Beck
LJ Beck
From Our Blog
Please Comment: Great Novel Openings Quiz
Replies
16
Views
905
MattScho
MattScho

Latest Articles By Litopians

  • Lessons I’ve Learned
    Some of these lessons I’ve learned the hard way; some I kind of knew subconsciously but wouldn’t ...
  • Hat Thieves Beware
    Summer 2017… schools and nurseries were closed for the holidays, and the grandkids were kicking th ...
  • Writer Beware
    I think AI is inundating my email inbox with author scams. Apparently AI is somehow gathering data o ...
  • Bad advice
    I’ve been on X again. I know, I know. I need to stop, but something keeps drawing me back. Maybe i ...
  • Farty Towels?
    I’ve always found it strange that often the first thing guests ask me, when I check them in is, †...
  • Consequential Detritus
    Mars 20,025 Xenoarchaeological Survey Team Epsilon for Galactic Central Command Captain Mandible? Ye ...
  • The Writer’s House
    Bristol is one of my favourite cities. I visit here a few times a year, and the second part of my no ...
What Goes Around
Comes Around!
Back
Top