/lit/ - Literature

>>22076654
OK

>>22041400

>>21956386
You're not getting tradpubbed unless you:

- are a nigger, a woman, a tranny, disabled, etc

- have a non-white sounding name

- are one of the protected races (not white or lightskinned nonwhite, unless you're a jew)

- write fiction which toes the political line or is otherwise aggressively inoffensive

Pick at least three of these. If you qualify, you may have a chance at getting tradpubbed.

The silver bullet is knowing someone in publishing, in which case almost any hack can get published

>>21948466
retard take
serializing on rr and setting up a patreon is an infinitely more realistic avenue towards revenue for a new author than throwing himself at the spike-laden wall that is submitting to tradpub

>>21931263
>>21931684
>>21931678

>>21790856
>even if it is true, which it is not.
Fuck off, of course it's true. Tradpub is rotten to the core short of vanity presses and they're just a different kind of rotten. Even the publishers that can't afford to snub every white male author for not being the right flavor of mentally ill will just fuck you another way. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it.

Furthermore, the idea that the only alternative is trying to sell your shit independently is false. Yeah, I'm talking about Patreon, and I hold to it that it's an infinitely more realistic pathway to making money as an independent writer than tradpub OR amzn (and it doesn't lock you out of amzn later on).

>>21707301
You don't, unless you're just the right blend of minority groups or already have a contact on the inside. Your only hope to make money off your work (or even to just have it read) is selfpub or serializing somewhere like RR and monetizing via advance content on Patreon

>>21695438
It's over

>>21558614
Go write a serial RR you lazy faggot
Even if it's sub-mediocre you'll get readers as long as you have a remotely interesting premise and post regularly. You even have a real chance of blowing up and getting big with total trash, see: Primal Hunter.

Make a Patreon with around a month of chapters in advance and you'll be making a bit of extra cash as well, more than you're likely to ever make chasing tradpub even at the lower end.

>>20853859
You don't understand just how rotten to the core tradpub is
Unless you have a personal connection in the industry to get your foot in the door, you're infinitely better off just going one of the many avenues of selfpub/independent.

There was too much useless shit in the OP so I truncated it edition

For General Writing
>The Rhetoric of Fiction, Booth
>Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft, Burroway
>Steering the Craft, Le Gardner
>The Anatomy of Story, Truby
>How Fiction Works, Wood

YouTube Playlists for Writing
>https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTCv6n1whoI23GmdBZienRW0Q0nFCU_ay Robert Butler
>[YouTube] Lecture #1: Introduction — Brandon Sanderson on Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy -

Technical Aspects of Writing
>Garner's Modern English Usage, Garner
>What Editors Do: The Art, Craft, and Business of Book Editing, Ginna
>Artful Sentences: Syntax as Style, Tufte

Books Analyzing Literature
>Hero With a Thousand Faces, Campbell
>The Art Of Dramatic Writing: Its Basis in the Creative Interpretation of Human Motives, Egri
>The Weekend Novelist, Ray

Note to anyone posting a sample of your writing for critique:
>IF YOU HAVE NOT PERFORMED A CURSORY PROOFREAD, DO NOT EXPECT TO BE TREATED KINDLY. EDIT YOUR WORK FOR SPELLING AND GRAMMAR BEFORE

>you make 7-15% profit max
>self publishing you make 70%+
>they’ll still require you to do all the leg work of a self published author anyways
>literally only boomers desire to self pub anymore

Self Publishing Options
>https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/
>https://www.kobo.com/us/en/p/writinglife

Self Publishing How-To
>get on at least one social media platform while or before writing book
>write book
>edit book
>run at least one or two ads on amazon when book is released
>don’t bother with anything besides Amazon exclusive unless in Germany, then use Kobo.

>keep 70% of profits of book sales
Poetry
>This Craft of Verse, Brando Sando
>The Poetry Home Repair Manual, Kooser
>Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry, Mason

For advertising
>[YouTube] Starting Ads for the First Time - with Mark Dawson (The Self Publishing Show, episode 229)

/wg/ Authors and Flash Fiction Pastebin
>https://pastebin.com/ruwQj7xQ

>>20478069

>>20473392
I am once again posting the trad hate train.

>>20469847
>>20469865
Reposting for the trad pub hate band wagon.
You’ll have to do everything a self pubbed author will have to do as a trad pubbed author, but you’ll earn less money and have to jump through more hoops.

>>20447355
>>20447360
Reposting this for our new trad curious anon that’s about to become a self pubber.