Making Money From Writing, Part 2: Novels

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Published by: dgaughran on 24th Apr 2011 | View all blogs by dgaughran

Yesterday we surveyed the short story market, where you can find the right magazines for your stories, how you can sell the same story again as a reprint and to an anthology, why short story collections are such a hard-sell to publishing houses, and how and when you should self-publish them.

Today we are going to talk about novels. There are only two real ways to sell your novel, and the choices are, for the most part, mutually exclusive, so you have a big decision to make. The first way is to a trade publishing house (both large presses and small, independent presses), and the second is to self-publish.

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4 Comments

by mike 1 year ago

When I open 'making Money from writing etc;. from your blog I only get a red-screen, but this maybe only on my computer.
by dgaughran 1 year ago

Thanks for pointing that out Mike - I have fixed the link.

Sorry everyone! It should all work now, I think brain was addled with chocolate.

Dave
by Pete 1 year ago

Cool website
by dgaughran 1 year ago

Thanks Pete,

If there is any topic you would like me to do a post on, or something I skipped past that you would like more detail on, just leave a comment here or on the site, and if I don't have the information, I will at least try and point you in the right direction.

Dave

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