Publishing is a Tough Town
The Hollow Man was indie-published in 2013. I didn’t want to go through the long process of finding an agent who may or may not pitch the book to a fashionable publisher. Even though my feeling about agents / publishers was the best way to go, I wanted to make the book immediately available so interested readers could experience the thrill of terrorism from the viewpoint of an ordinary protagonist. He was no hero: not clever or capable, not talented or tested. He was just trying to survive after being thrown into the world of espionage.
Being an X-IBM guy, the technology of self-publishing was straightforward, so within a short while I had the manuscript formatted, the cover designed and everything uploaded to Amazon. I ordered 20 paperback copies and sat back to wait. Holding The Hollow Man in my hands was one of the five or six most incredible events in my like.
As the writing industry changes more and more to an online presence, it has inevitably pushed most of the work back down to us as writers. I wasn’t prepared for this change in models and how it affected our perceptions of the industry. Having this in mind, here’s my experience with traditional publishing.
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