How to Write and Publish a Book
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Some of us are writers from the moment we hold our first pencil, through the chewed pencil years, into the typewriter and then computer ages to the publishing and teaching years. A dream, no, a need, to publish a book takes us into literature and MFA programs in college, to reading, researching, practicing, and submitting—despite the scoffs or scorn. Some of us watch our cosmetically obsessed girlfriends party and play and have no real interest in good literature, then see that same chick publish a book on beauty tips, pulling in the cash and acclaim we thought was reserved for us.
We get even more intent on success in the milieu of our “calling,” and we submit proposals and chapters and make queries and research legitimate agencies and get nowhere but closer to the rooms of discouragement and dejection and dismay. But we recuperate, and continue, becoming members of esteemed literary groups, subscribing to the top writing periodicals, joining the online forums to continue to learn and grow—and hoping one day it will be our turn to publish a book that sells out many printings.
We read more, investigating the how-to publish a book sites, books, and articles, listening to the gurus and witnessing the reasons for the warnings: this man has been stiffed by a deadbeat editor, who owes him $500; this woman has fallen for the scam of a POD team and is out $5,000. We put up with editors who have published crap—articles, for example, that are riddled with grammatical holes—but who challenge our four sentences on page seventeen, sentences he says are “incomplete” but are in fact grammatically apt (and should be after we have spent ten years teaching syntax, grammar, and rhetoric). And we read about how one writer has made millions on a best-seller list with his purportedly nonfiction book which turns out to be more manufactured tales than true life stories. And, we reassess: maybe it is not all that imperative we publish a book. Maybe we will be satisfied with quality output, a few awards for articles and essays and poems. Maybe we will stay out of the publicity/celebrity spiral that siphons and sucks and saves those of us who are rejected in our efforts to publish a book of great value. Maybe, that is, we have been saved—from the scammers, the screwballs, and the sad sack sorry excuses for writers who are in for the money and the fame and would drag us down into the rings of hell, where will suffer the regret of having sold our souls just to publish a book. Publish a book. The phrase (or clause) has a very different meaning today than it did forty years ago.
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