Wednesday 4 March 2015

It's all vanity

Three tweets from today:


  • Other than a handful of notable exceptions, will self-published authors ever earn as much as those selling advice to self-published authors?
  • The sheer number of courses, memberships, editorial and technical services on offer - do any guarantee earning back their fees?
  • Cos if they don't, it means they operate no selection and have no faith in their clients. That's called vanity publishing.

But, just to be clear and really ram the point home... I have nothing against book publicists in principle - as long as they take their fee from sales increases.

If they want a fee up front then they are not selective. And they aren't showing confidence in their own abilities. Which, as I've already said, is vanity publishing in my book. If you'll pardon the pun.