Publication OOPS!

Publish a book

OOPS!

If you are like me and have a polished manuscript that your itching to see in book form, then you have probably sent out numerous synopsis, queries, and sample chapters to nearly every publishing company and literary agent within you genre.

I am the type of person who, after several months of waiting and receiving numerous rejection letter, decided to simply self-publish.  Why not?  I say to myself.  I worked hard and deserve to see my book in print.  Today, however, I received an acceptance letter from a publishing company I had contacted a while back, but had assumed they were not interested because they had not responded to me. 

So, here I am, with my self-published work enrolled in K.D.P select through Kindle and with no way of taking my book off for at least 90 days.  The publishing company that is interested in my novel does not allow for my work to be available anywhere else except through them or with their written approval.  That is what their contract reads, so until I can get my book unpublished with Kindle and off of Amazon, I am unable to pursue traditional publication.

Moral of this story:  Do not jump the gun and self-publish because you have not received an acceptance letter yet, because you just might burn your bridges.  Be 100% certain that no one wishes to publish your work first, then pursue self-publication.