[stylist] New member, well old member returning

Thu Oct 6 02:53:33 UTC 2016

Tessa and all,

I attended Creative Nonfiction's Creative Nonfiction Writers conference this
summer. An indie publisher who presented, gave us some stats on
self-publishing. Here they are:

About 500,000 titles are self-published a year. Of these, about 95% have
errors in the writing/editing, design, marketing and promotion. Of those
self-published, 90% are not making money, and the 10% who are, it's a
nominal amount. While it happens, it's not common for self-published authors
to be picked up by traditional publishers, at least not in current market.

These are things to consider when self-publishing. It has its pros and cons,
like anything.

Bridgit

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Hi Vejas,
Thanks for the welcome.
The bookshare issue is if I understand correctly based on agreements between
publishers rather than a decision by the bookshare team itself. I'd love to
have access to the full content but I'm darn glad to have access to what I
do have and with luck that will improve over time.
The thing that most annoys me is the simple fact that because I'm not in the
states I can't volunteer, I can't fix books and resubmit them. For example I
have a hard copy of Jurassic park by Michael Crichton, the copy on Bookshare
is incomplete, the tables apparently being rendered as jpg. Even though I
own a copy of the book I can't help update the file.
Anyway that being said I love going through the new listings, seeing what's
available in the various fields of interest I'm currently working on.
I too am getting a little more into my writing, I write more in the winter
months when I'm more likely to be stuck at home. Right now I'm working on a
novel about world war II doing some serious editing with the hope of having
it ready to send to publishers sometime in 2017.
How many people have self published and where did you do it and how well did
it work out for you, did you make any money or was it just to get your work
out there and known.
I recently read the Martian for the second time, every time I read about the
authors adventures in self publishing it makes me smile, it's wonderful to
see such a success story. The problem with self publishing is that everyone
can do it and so there's a lot of junk out there.
Also how many people have blogs, what are good accessible sites to do this
and what the heck does one say on a blog anyway. One of the things I've been
reading is that you need to get your name out there, have a web site a blog
and all that stuff. Me, I post to facebook once or twice a month, what the
heck am I going to say on a blog LOL.
Anyway looking forward to hearing from everyone.
Tessa

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: Hi Tessa,
: I remember you. I remember specifically because when I originally joined 
the WritersChat list, when such a list was in existence, I think you were 
the first to reply.
: CongragulNs on your place in the  contest.
: That sucks that Bookshare won't let you have access to all books being 
from Canada. If I were a Canadian, I believe that that would be a battle 
worth fighting, LOL.
: This list is definitely still active. It has quietness down a little, 
people still write poems and occasional stories and I have just gotten back 
into the writing scene. While a student at LCB I admit to not being very 
active, but I plan to change that.
: Good luck.
: Vejas
:
: > On Oct 5, 2016, at 15:46, Tessa via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
: >
: > Hi All
: > It's been a number of years since I was on this list. I'm glad to be 
back.
: >
: > My name is Tessa and I've been writing at least since the early 80's and
: > telling stories before then.
: >
: > This has been a very good year for me where writing is concerned. I 
belong
: > to the Northwestern Ontario writers workshop one hundred or so members
: > strong and very active. I've had three pieces published in our NOWW 
magazine
: > this year, absolutely amazing.
: >
: > Every year NOWW runs a writing contest open to anyone. One of the 
categories
: > was novel excerpt which we haven't had as a category in the past. I
: > submitted two pieces and won first and third. I'm still on cloud nine 
when I
: > think about that LOL.
: >
: > I mostly write novels and have about a dozen rough drafts waiting for 
some
: > serious polishing. In 2010 I took the NaNoWriMo challenge for the first 
time
: > and that piece was my first prize winner, my 2014 NaNoWriMo piece won 
third.
: > So, is anyone else doing NaNoWriMo?
: >
: > For anyone unfamiliar with NaNoWriMo it begins November 1st and the idea

is
: > the write 50,000 words in 30 days. At the moment I'm trying to figure 
out
: > just what I'm going to write.
: >
: > Also, we Canadians now have limited access to bookshare and the 
incredible
: > amount of research material available there. I Love it. I just finished
: > reading Laura Deutsch's book writing from the senses 59 exercises to 
Ignite
: > your writing, a terrific exploration of the senses and exercises to
: > encourage people to think about the things they taste, touch feel and so

on,
: > even as a writer who is blind I appreciated it and will need to read it
: > again to do the exercises.
: >
: > I use a braille notetaker for a lot of my writing though in the past I 
have
: > used slate and styless on old magazine papers. I still have some of that
: > stuff but it's so faded I'm not sure it's even readable any more or 
worth
: > reading. A local poet told me she had burned all her old work, to me it 
was
: > devistating, how could she do that, she said it was liberating, LOL. I
: > suppose that makes sense, I look at some of my old stuff and cringe.
: >
: > Anyway just thought I'd say hi.
: >
: > Tessa
: >
: >
: >
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