Last time I checked in I mentioned a project called Crisis Weekly. The next time I checked in I really ought to have already started it. But then computer issues, yo. I'm still working on resolving them, and hopefully that will happen soon, and I can begin writing Crisis Weekly, and hopefully also the Christmas 2018 poem, Did You...Go the Heart of an Active Volcano?, too.
Long story short about Crisis Weekly: it's going to be a series of weekly (wow!) comic book scripts.
Slightly longer story about the 2018 Christmas poem: I've been writing a Christmas poem every year for a number of years. At first they were written for my parents, but after my mom passed away I started doing them with the whole family in mind, although increasingly with my niece in mind. This will be the second year she'll have provided the inspiration for one, although technically I'm the one who came up with it, based on an actual question I used to ask her about what she was doing at daycare. (Yeah. I'm a little nutty.)
Sunday, September 30, 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
IWSG September 2018
What publishing path are you considering/did you take, and why?
The one I ended up taking was self-publishing, because I wasn't getting anywhere with traditional publishing, but truthfully...I first self-published with the first book-length manuscript I wrote. The second one, I did take to various traditional publishing avenues, and didn't find any takers, and eventually self-published that. I had a starter publisher who was going to handle a book I wrote before that, but they collapsed before releasing the book. I even had an earlier starter publisher agree to release a new edition of the first book I self-published, but they collapsed, too. I know, I know, that's what happens to small publishers. I get that now. So anyway, I just kept self-publishing. I gave up looking for traditional publishers.
Earlier this year I started looking again, and I've decided that I will continue doing that. I'm also making a renewed effort at breaking into comics. I'll be talking more about that later, but suffice to say, I hope to be talking about Crisis Weekly again soon, and maybe that will lead to something. We'll see.
The one I ended up taking was self-publishing, because I wasn't getting anywhere with traditional publishing, but truthfully...I first self-published with the first book-length manuscript I wrote. The second one, I did take to various traditional publishing avenues, and didn't find any takers, and eventually self-published that. I had a starter publisher who was going to handle a book I wrote before that, but they collapsed before releasing the book. I even had an earlier starter publisher agree to release a new edition of the first book I self-published, but they collapsed, too. I know, I know, that's what happens to small publishers. I get that now. So anyway, I just kept self-publishing. I gave up looking for traditional publishers.
Earlier this year I started looking again, and I've decided that I will continue doing that. I'm also making a renewed effort at breaking into comics. I'll be talking more about that later, but suffice to say, I hope to be talking about Crisis Weekly again soon, and maybe that will lead to something. We'll see.
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