OOC: more publishers

[sythyry]

I'll get back to the story soon, I promise.

In the meantime, a helpful non-LJ person has recommended Twilight Times Books to me. If you'd like to second the recommendation, or warn me against it, please do!

(Sorry I can't just add this to the poll in the previous entry, but polls are not editable.)

Comments

[zahz-veheronn.livejournal.com]

The only bit of advice I can give, (since I have heard nothing about the listed publishers)is the same bit of advice i got off of a freelance writer and self published author I've known personally for some time:

When self publishing It is typically within a writers best interest to avoid vanity presses. go with larger self publish presses if at all possible, and when doing so go with what ever one has the best hearsay from folks you trust, a longer than most the rest of the competition 's history, and the publish options/ formats you want. go with one that will allow you to set your price for the book you write and gives you royalties.

I have no Idea on advice concerning the going to conventions route... so i am of very little help there

you could potentially enter into si-fi fantasy writing competitions (going with the bigger longer running ones like writers of the future if you want to take a competition route) if nothing else a competition like Writers of the future will get your works seen and judged by a panel of fantasy and si fi writers, and sometimes even publishers. I know for example Anne McCaffey has been on the panel of judges in past years of the competition.
It will get your works out there there are cash prizes/ scholarships and the chance to have a short story or story fragment published as well. there are a couple other honest competitions of this same sort specifically designed, as is writers of the Future to let unknowns get their foot in the door and get seen by others in the field. the catch is in order to enter you cannot publish any works through other means until after you have either won or been weeded out of the competition.