Now A Published Poet!!

[Tallguy]

Hello fellow Canadians.

Over the past few months I have posted asking for your guys help for a tittle for my upcoming book,
GOOD NEWS - I AM NOW PUBLISHED!!!
My book is entitled 'Different Shades of Grey' and is for sale, currently only online due to the fact that no major book seller wants a no-name Canadian poet on their shelves.
Try this search 'different shades of grey' on amazon.ca, check me out.
I'm also on FB page called 'AV Poetry'

I am Alex van der Mout, lets break down the stereotypes.....

[Tony]

I was pretty excited to see that there was Kindle version available, but the sample includes just a few pages of copyright/legal stuff + table of contents, and no actual content. That was kind of a letdown.

I'm often curious about new-author/publisher interactions. How did you find your experience to be? (Finding a publisher, interactions, costs, what kind of things they do for you)

[Amailer]

Congratz! I too would like to know how you started/ended up getting published.

[Tallguy]

Its a publishing house based in the USA. I actually just googled publishing houses lol. I got published in a kinda weird way, there are traditionally two ways

1- self-publishing where you pay for everything, have say over every thing, but it cost a lot
2- traditionally-publishing where you 'give' up all rights to your book, costs you nothing but you make very little royalties from your work
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then what i did, was a hybrid of the two, I paid a little bit, so it got customized to what I wanted, but they had a say as while, but i make more royalties per book.

So I found the company thanks to google, phoned up the company and things juts went from there. My consultant was awsome and i would recommend them, the only down fall is they only do online marketing, and if you do well a big publishing house may sign you on, but its hard to get your work out there.


For a better sample, check out my web-site <av-poems.weebly.com>, it just a few up
SUPPORT CANADIAN POETS!!!! (go on amazon.ca, check me out...)