Old Post Alert: Like nearly 8 years old… 

It was around March/February of this year I sent out my manuscript to the various powers that be protecting the gates to publicationville.

Only a few rejections have trickled back to my inbox since then. I did once receive a reply over a year since submitting, guess they are busy rejecting other writers. Not that I am bitter, these literary agents have to make a living somehow and choosing my crap maybe isn’t for them.

Slowly and in an orderly manner I am accepting the ‘standard’ way of publishing my book won’t work for me. The whole pander to an agent by telling them what my book is similar to simply isn’t my style, it never will be. Editing a book can only be done so many times. So in this ever growing world of reliance of internet I have to address my options.

Option 1

Self publish my book – This will involve mostly all costs coming out of my creaking wallet. Editing, cover design and formatting onto amazon are all things I am not a professional at. Therefore they will cost me. I consider this option my last resort, by that I mean when every other idea has been tried several times.

Option B

Keep hitting out to literary agents, maybe I will get lucky – This one is wearing thin right about now, but I will start a new campaign sometime later this year when my self-esteem has re spawned. Although like the lottery you need a ticket to be struck by lightning twice. I like those odds.

Option C

Crowd Funding – Let the ‘people’ decide – This depends on what crowd funding outlet I choose. Some you can just sign up and go where as others such as unbound you have to apply, in which I did yesterday. Thanks to Matt for pointing that one out to me.

Option 4

Give up, become a guy that used to write. Say that in bars in a half drunken slur to a much younger bright eyed version of myself – Although the promise of a constant booze top up sounds nice it isn’t viable for my liver or livelihood. Plus I’m better than that to give up now, I hope.

Option E

Mothball the Clark Thorn series – This is a very viable option, I started all of this as a back story for the Jack Thorn series, now I know that story I could just move on. I do have an idea for a horror story also.

Even after glancing at the options I have to keep going. The weekend after completing the first draft of my third book I am back editing the first one. Hey maybe combining the options could work, I may just get lucky and the good people of unbound may see something in my book. But I am definitely mothballing the whole being drunk in a bar thing.