Wednesday, July 27, 2022

The Hybrid Life for Me!

 


ROGUE'S POSSESSION is now out!! 


This release dovetails nicely with this week's topic. We're asking, Traditional publishing, self-publishing or a fusion of the two. What works best for you?

This particular book is the second book in the Covenant of Thorns trilogy, which were originally traditionally published ten years ago! Those were my first fantasy romances and I was elated that Carina Press took a chance on my cross-genre novels. I went on to publish ten books in total with them. I've also done three traditionally published series with Kensington and one with St. Martin's Press.

I like trad publishing. Having a team working on my books is a great feeling, as is not having to front the money.

However...

As soon as I could get the rights back on these books, I did, and now I'm self-publishing them. The major reason? I'll make a lot more money selling them myself.

A secondary reason: by controlling the series, I have more options to discount book one, a potent marketing technique trad-pubbing doesn't allow.

A third, but super validating reason? At last I can give these books the covers they deserve!! I love these covers, designed by the incredibly talented Ravven, so much!

So, as you may have concluded, I'm falling in the "fusion of the two" category. Being a hybrid author gives me the best of both worlds. I aim to continue doing it that way. 
https://sffseven.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-hybrid-life-for-me.html
sffseven.blogspot.com
CC-MAIN-2024-30
78556
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:6GI22M3UNZFKQUK765IW2FOU2K2BU7JC
<urn:uuid:f29d94aa-d5a0-499a-8a4d-90cc585603b3>
2024-07-21T17:28:21Z
172.253.62.132
text/html
sha1:23L4ZTVJRAMJCVDP6HYDLE6ETDORJ6J4
<urn:uuid:928c6b51-0a85-4431-bb0f-144abedc85f9>
https://sffseven.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-hybrid-life-for-me.html
response
<urn:uuid:126a5ff3-db64-4dcb-aeea-befebbd51b9e>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2024-30
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for July 2024
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-120
software: Apache Nutch 1.20 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.5-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/