Paths to Publishing

The Snarkology’s own Melissa Snark talks candidly about her decision to finance her self-published audiobook A Cat’s Tale, once she had the rights back from the previous e-publisher. Audiobooks are a fast-growing but still far less saturated market for romance subgenres…worth any author’s serious consideration. Melissa paid upfront for some serious narrative and sound-editing talent,…

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Happy Friday! Join Dixie Hart on the Snarkology blog, for a candid and inspirational tale of wanderlust, travel, exotic locales, and fearless risk-taking – all of which Dixie distills into a second career in self-published non-fiction and romance. I won’t give the whole story away, but you should listen to Dixie: “…Sometimes the willingness to risk…

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The Snarkology blog’s next guest, Maureen McGowan, had a circuitous route to publishing that includes stalled agents, defunct publishers, and an unexpected genre change. I won’t summarize further – you’ve just got to read it. Maureen has a great quote that I feel is super-worthy of being addressed separately. She writes: “My first manuscript wasn’t…

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Today the Snarkology blog features Kayelle Allen, a powerhouse of a M/M romance author, talking candidly about her own path to publication. She started publishing in her fifties, but she backed up her solid writing with previous decades of worldbuilding-as-a-hobby in a vast science-fiction and fantasy setting. Her website proves it, by the way. (No,…

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Today on the Snarkology blog, Judy Ann Davis shares her tips on how to follow your writing dreams while understanding constructive criticism, weathering bad reviews, and adapting as a writer – without crippling your creativity or ego. I’ll share two really important observations from her essay: Some people think that reading cereal boxes makes them…

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Over on the Snarkology Blog today, Helena Fairfax talks candidly about her journey as a published author: her first wistful dreams about escaping office work to write, her early contest win, the dreaded ‘it’s good but not right for us’ publisher letter, and her return to writing in the aftermath of a terrible tragedy and…

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