A Publisher's Conversation with Authors: If the offer is too good to be true...
It is Tuesday. Monday's madness is over, and Wednesday will take us over the hump, so Tuesday it is--for some serious discussion with authors. Tuesday talks mean to address authors in waiting and self-published authors who would like to go a more traditional route or who would at least like to take their steps with a publisher by their side. This week, we share feedback about offers that authors, particularly self-published ones, who get offers, particularly via email, but sometimes by phone, text, and, rarely, postal mail for services like re-publication, marketing, promotion, awards, and you name it. Most of it sounds too good to be true, but those offers can be enticing. How do you know if they are legitimate? There are ways -- and all offers should be checked out thoroughly, keeping in mind that a legitimate publisher will rarely contact an author for republication of a book seen on Amazon. They have too many good submissions overwhelming them to seek out others....