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Answer: Have you tried getting your novel published? First of all, if I\u2019ve released an e-book, or found a way to do print-on-demand, or funded a printed edition of my book on its own, and said book is available for sale online and\/or in bookstores, than the book IS published. It\u2019s an indie book.<\/p>\n Such a question is playing into the stigma that accompanies being an indie author. Unless we can smack a little penguin or the words Random House somewhere on the cover, than it\u2019s not really a book and I\u2019m not really an author. I can only be legitimate if a big corporation has deemed my work worthy of bearing their name.<\/p>\n It\u2019s a frustrating notion, and one that I, and many other indie authors all over the world, are working very hard to overcome. <\/p>\n What I don\u2019t understand is the different approaches people have towards writing and music. In music, indie artists and bands are the ones on the cutting edge. They attract die-hard followers who apparently love them BECAUSE they aren\u2019t accepted by the mainstream establishment. Those same die-hards often turn their backs on musicians when they sign with a major label.<\/p>\n Writers are expected to sign with a publisher the first chance they get and should be aspiring to write for Hollywood. Musicians have to slave away on the road and the minute they do a commercial or write a hit song, they\u2019re accused of selling out. <\/p>\n I don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n I\u2019m an indie author not because I\u2019m not good enough to get signed with a major publisher but because I dislike the establishment and don\u2019t want to have a large corporation profiting off of my hard work. I want to be in full control of my career, and if that means I have to work harder to find an audience, I welcome the challenge. I\u2019m every bit as much a rebel as your favorite Indie band, and if you want to be on the cutting edge, you should be reading indie authors like me. <\/p>\n So don\u2019t ask me why I haven\u2019t tried to get my novel published with one of the major publishers. Instead, ask me why the publishing industry is undergoing a revolution and how I\u2019m helping to make it happen.<\/p>\n I\u2019m an indie author and proud of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Answer: Have you tried getting your novel published? There\u2019s a whole lot of wrong in that question. Yet it\u2019s something I get asked all the time. First of all, if I\u2019ve released an e-book, or found a way to do print-on-demand, or funded a printed edition of my book on its own, and said book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2611,2607,1606,2848,2610,2612,2608,2609,2613],"class_list":["post-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-books","tag-indie-authors","tag-indie-music","tag-novel","tag-penguin","tag-print-on-demand","tag-publishers","tag-random-house","tag-rebel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3018,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions\/3018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThere\u2019s a whole lot of wrong in that question. Yet it\u2019s something I get asked all the time.<\/p>\n