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Book: The Second Mouse Gets the Cheese - How to Avoid the Traps of Self-Publishing by Carolyn Poling Schriber
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Then I retired from academia, decided to keep writing about the things I loved, and was shocked to find out all I did not know about the publishing world! Now I had no help, no guidance, no well-oiled production company to do the scutwork for me. I did know, however, that since I was already in my 70s, I had a limited amount of time left--time I could not afford to waste while I waited for an agent or publisher to appear magically at my elbow. If I was going to keep publishing, I was going to have to do it myself.
As I worked my way through one historical monograph and another historical novel, I kept notes on my experiences and blogged about my triumphs and my more numerous mistakes. After some three years of fighting my way through the thickets of self-publishing, I was lucky enough to find a reading audience for my historical novel, Beyond all Price. It went viral in the summer of 2011, selling over 47,000 copies in a matter of weeks. I was thrilled, of course, and excited, but I also felt a sense of responsibility to those who were writing along with me. I felt like a lucky little mouse who had successfully found a path to that elusive piece of literary cheese. I wanted--and needed--to share what I had learned.
And thus this slender volume came into being. It is a personal account of what I learned, where I goofed, and what I wish someone would have told me before I started. I hope readers will find something useful in it. More important, I hope that they will be encouraged to avoid the traps and keep keep hunting that piece of cheese.
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