Finding Your Publication Path

Or, blazing your own path

A familiar question came up in a writing workshop I led last week. A participant wanted to know how to publish the many stories he had accumulated during his unusual life. It’s a common and important question, and so hard to answer!

Many of my conversations with writers revolve around publishing options. People often want to know the right way to publish their works, to get a book out into the world.

Alas, there is no single right answer.

All I can do in these conversations is guide people to think about their priorities and to make sure they clearly understand their options.

People tend to think about publishing decisions based on the knowledge they’ve accumulated over the years. Here are three current truths to factor into your decisions:

That last truth is hard for me to write, book-lover as I am. But it’s true. A book may not be the best way to reach your audience.

And even if it is, perhaps a book isn’t the first way to publish your work.

You may have heard the story of Andy Weir’s break-out book The Martian. Weir originally wrote the book as a serialized story on his blog, getting feedback on the science as he went.

His readers started asking for the content in a more convenient form, so he self-published the book on Amazon. It took off, and the rest is history-traditional publishing contract, the movie, Matt Damon…

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