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What's Your Biggest Challenge with Your Book?
I'd be interested to learn what authors/publishers on this network think their biggest challenges are with their book. I wonder if there's any common, pervasive challenge we all face.
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Permalink Reply by J. Steve Miller on
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Funny! Just keep plugging away at the writing. And don't forget to alert this discussion group when you get published. We're pulling for you!
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Permalink Reply by albertasequeira on
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Shawna,
Don't lose your confidence. Once you finish your book, you can be lead through the steps. The first thing I would do is go to your library and get the updated version of Writer's Market book. It list the publisher and agents and what genre they want. When you are ready, email if you want and I'll walk you through it.
Your fear is just coming from not knowing what to do next and where.
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It would help to give the email. memoirs@albertasequeira.com
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Permalink Reply by Barbara Hart on
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Bill, my biggest challenge is trying to get the recognition that I need, or desire to make my books a success and reaching the needed people.
Barbara Hart
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Permalink Reply by Bill Frank on
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Barbara—
What's your genre? From whom are you trying to get recognition? Or, put another way, who is your ideal reader?
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Permalink Reply by Skeeze Whitlow on
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The21writer@alumni.marymount.edu
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Permalink Reply by Shawna Savage-Yaroch on
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The biggest problem I am having with my book is editing the content to conform to the publishers Christian guidelines. It is difficult to write about non-fiction content of this subject and make it "fluffy" adding bleeps and Astrix to the language takes away from the intensity of the situations described and
makes the violence seem "not so bad"
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That's a hard one. I know that Steven King speaks of the need to "be true to your character," which would suggest using all that offensive verbiage. Yet, readers of Christian literature expect books from their publishers to get around that somehow. I know wicked people who don't use foul language. In a sense, it makes them all the scarier.
Perhaps the publishing company can suggest some books at Christian publishers that have shady characters (since there are tons of Christian novels out there, there's got to be lots of interesting characters), so that you can see how other authors tackled this issue. Surely some kind of "industry standard" has developed.
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Permalink Reply by Paradise on
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Weeell, I was going to stay out of this one because my answer is not helpful, but I would suggest that any Christian publisher who does not like, murder, intrigue, incest, adultery, carnage, robbery, lies, deceit bone chilling and earth shattering, catastrophic events go back and read the Bible. Apparently they missed a few verses. I am a Christian, I don't cuss, drink or smoke, but watch out ladies. Actually, I am married to the love of my life or that last sentence might be true, but I am true to my wife not because it is honorable, but because I wouldn't want it otherwise. That, kind of stuff is also in the Bible. What do these Christian publishers want? Would they cover up the truth, that would be deceit in the worst way. Go after a different publisher. and by the way, my book series of over 1000 pages has not one single curse word, lie or cheat in the whole thing and the romance is limited to holding hands, but, you know what, my books sell and not to the audience I expected, I wrote for youth, it is the grandmothers that have been buying my effort. Sorry to be so long, and sorry about the commercial, But, I believe in examples of fact.
Dr Robert E McGinnis
PS, again, if you use examples out of either the new or old testament, who can deny you.
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Robert—
The pattern of your book sales points out an interesting distinction. Your books are written for children, but they are purchased by grandparents (a pattern that is common for children's books). This phenomenon illustrates that there are book buyers and book consumers. The grandparents are the book buyers and the children are the book consumers. See my diagram of the Book Publishing Value Chain to see the distinction. This diagram also shows many of the important players in book publishing. - Attachments:
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Old Book Model Diagram.jpg, 74 KB
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Bill,
That's a helpful model. I think that's a part of what made it difficult for my agent to get my book with a traditional publisher. It's written on personal finances for young people. But young people would probably never buy the book, since they're not in financially dire straits yet. No teen is meandering through a bookstore this weekend, eagerly looking for their favorite financial author's much anticipated latest book.
My thinking is that their parents and grandparents (first-line buyers/readers) will read it and give it to the young people (my primary target). CPA's and pastors buy it to give as graduation gifts. That's a good point and helpful diagram.
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Yes, a little experience has been put into your diagram, I am sure you have noticed a variety of patterns in the course of your achievements. Some of us have to stumble into the right method of marketing and then of course, we are always looking for the next best method/model as well. I think a good idea is to use more than one approach, after all, how many grandmothers are out there? I keep working at it and my efforts have given me a lot of satisfaction.
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