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You are. Never forget that as a self-published author who published on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and/or Kobo that you are 100 percent in control of your work. A comma doesn’t get moved without your say-so.
What Is a Self-Published Author?
For the purposes of this article, a self-published author is an author that published their fiction or non-fiction works directly to the platforms where they are selling them. In other words, they personally uploaded their novels and covers to Amazon, Barnes and Noble and/or Kobo etc themselves without any assistance from a 3rd party publisher.
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As a new author with a newly finished and ready to be published manuscript, you’re probably overjoyed that a book publisher has sent you a response and tells you that they’d love to publish your book. But not so fast. Are they a vanity press?
You Put in the Hard Work, and Here’s Your Reward
When your goal is to be traditionally published, you’re most likely to seek out literary agents and traditional book publishers. The bad news is that when sending to book publishers, you may have missed some red flags when looking at their submission guidelines. In fact, those red flags probably weren’t in the submission guidelines. They were probably under a different menu header that said services or some variation, like author services. On that webpage, you would have seen fees listed for publishing your book. If the book publisher charges fees, there’s a good chance it’s a vanity press.
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You’ve finally completed your first novel. You’re excited. Everyone around you is excited, and you can’t wait to see how many people buy your book, but how many sales can you reasonably expect? The truth is that you may not see very many your first year. If you see two books sold your first week, you’re doing great.