Young Writers Society

What type of publishing? Self publishing or traditional? What are your goals? (as in are you trying to make a profit or just doing it for the fun of it?) How much money are you willing to spend? Those are the top questions to ask yourself from what I've heard from published authors I watch on yt.

If you are doing it simply for the fun and joy of doing it and don't care much about sales or the money, I think I know a few places that will allow you to publish for free with all the editing, cover designing, and interior designing done by you...but you are very unlikely to sell any books to people that do not know you unless you are able to somehow build a platform for yourself elsewhere such as on youtube. This is what I intend to do as I don't really have any big dreams about becoming a best seller, and it rather annoys me when trad published authors complain about the number of sales they get when most of us would not be able to attain that simply because we do not write what is on the market at the moment. (someone complained when they got over 100 book sales???) Different goals, I suppose, XD. But those are my few words on the matter I suggest searching for what your interested in on yt. There are a lot of people who vlog their publishing journeys there.

Know going in, that the trad pub process is brutal. No way around it. BRUTAL.
Be prepared for SOOOOOOOOOOO much rejection. Like. SO much.

I've been querying off and on for 10ish years? To be fair, the first handful of books I queried had NO business being queried. I thought I knew what I was doing and I really didn't lol.

I now *actually* know what I'm doing and I've queried three books since then. One honestly wasn't marketable so it didn't do well when I queried it. Fine. The next one was marketable and got some agent interest but ultimately no one fell in love. (That stung a little but whatever, I had the next book ready to go). I queried an earlier version of bunny rom com last year, got a little agent interest, then got some really good agent feedback and completely rewrote the entire book and it's 1000% better. So I'm super excited to re-query it and see what happens!

My total number of rejections across all the books I've queried is probably close to 300?? But I'm very stubborn and keep learning and getting better at my craft and understanding the market and I will literally never give up until I run out of ideas or it's not fun anymore.

I'm personally drawn to trad pub because I want this to be a career (maybe not my sole source of income because that's nearly impossible in today's world) but I want to publish a lot of books for a long time. I want an agent to help manage and guide and support my career. I want access to the editors at big publishing houses. I want to be published by one of those big publishing houses just like all my favorite books. I want a professional to handle my covers, marketing, publicity, and all the other "businessy" stuff I'm not as interested in. I want the team. You can have a similar team in indie or self-publishing, but you're paying out of pocket for all those people.

Honestly my biggest piece of advice with trad pub is to go in with eyes open knowing that it's REALLY hard, and to have thick skin for the rejection. You will probably not get an agent or a book deal on book #1 . You might have to write a LOT of books. You might be querying off and on for YEARS.

My second piece of advice with trad pub is to work hard on improving your craft. We're lucky now because there are SOOOO many amazing resources at our disposal to learn and improve our craft. Get feedback from trusted beta readers or critique partners, read books about craft, and take your time. It doesn't happen overnight and that's okay. (I would've saved myself a lot of disappointment if I had started querying like five years later than when I started because my writing really started to level up around then).

My third piece of advice is that when you feel like you're ready to dip your toes in and enter the beautiful querying trenches, do SOOO much research. Your book should be 1000% finished, edited, read by other people, and edited some more. You'll need a query letter and a synopsis and both of these things are stupid hard to get right and do well. But there are also SO many resources for these too. Be prepared to do a ton of research to select the agents you want to query. You will also need to avoid "schmagents" (scam agents). Again, lots of resources for all these things, and it's all time consuming.

BluesClues self-published their debut novel through a small press publisher, now has an agent, and their sophomore novel is being traditionally published. They're a great resource for publishing as well!
Elinor just 100% self-published her debut novel and is self-publishing her sophomore novel next year. So she's another one you can talk to about what self-publishing is like!

Happy to chat more in PMs any time or answer any questions about any stage of the process. I know it seems like a lot and it's daunting at first, but focus on your book and making it the best you can, and there's plenty of time to figure out the rest and make decisions about what direction you want to go <3

I unfortunately don't know this story, but this sounds awesome I want to know it where can I find it >.>
Anyway Imma guess the lie is 4

I'm going with 1 being the lie

The other two seem so realistic, I'm going to guess 1?? Not that 1 isn't it's just the most wild lol

1?

going with 1

2?

1

#1 is a....Truth! I am really related to the first president of Singapore, though I won't say how, in case that might give away my identity or something.

#2 is a.........Lie! Good job mint and century! I've never been to Disney World or DisneyLand! BUT I did go to Liberty Island, where I got pooped on twice, with seconds in between the two times.

#3 is a.....Truth! It's a picture of me pretending to sleep with a smirk on my face, while wearing Hogwarts robes, holding a wand, and in front of my bookshelf........I'm not too proud of that, but it was for something I participated in. XD

Thanks for playing!

Ppl are expecting 6 centums from me lol-