Why I'm Sticking with My Two Small Publishers
The first reason is time. Yes, time. I barely have enough time to write the two books a year that I want to write. I am not ready to try and figure out how to format a book for Amazon and all the other places that you are expected to post it, design a cover, and do everything else that needs to be done. Let me back up a little. I began writing in the typewriter, carbon paper, submit you manuscript in a box with another box inside with return postage days. I sent out queries and then the whole manuscripts, more time than not, having the manuscript bouncing back covered with wine and coffee stains and smelling like cigarette smoke. I've been through crooked publishers, those that have died, at least three that have just decided to quit the business. Which of course results in looking for new publishers. I've been through the do-it-yourself phase when it was costly and really you weren't doing it yourself, you were paying for someone else to do it for a certain fee--or ...