Stuff that would sell, primarily :-/ It looks from looking around Lulu.com, and examining Kindleboards, that there are only three ways to sell a significant number of books through self-publishing: 1) Write a highly technical textbook on something that only a small number of people need to know, but for which there's no other textbook available. 2) Write industrial quantities of very bad prose in either the steampunk or 'dark romance' genres, then split each normal-length book into three 100-page 'novellas', call it a trilogy, set your price as low as possible and try to get your books bought by teenagers who are after more Twilight. 3) Write about how God has a special plan for you and there's probably an angel right now, just round the corner, with a special message for you from your dead goldfish.
Unfortunately, my scruples prevent me from doing 2) or 3) - I don't actively want to pollute people's minds for money - and 1) is not something I have the aptitude for...
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Date: 2011-02-16 03:58 pm (UTC)It looks from looking around Lulu.com, and examining Kindleboards, that there are only three ways to sell a significant number of books through self-publishing:
1) Write a highly technical textbook on something that only a small number of people need to know, but for which there's no other textbook available.
2) Write industrial quantities of very bad prose in either the steampunk or 'dark romance' genres, then split each normal-length book into three 100-page 'novellas', call it a trilogy, set your price as low as possible and try to get your books bought by teenagers who are after more Twilight.
3) Write about how God has a special plan for you and there's probably an angel right now, just round the corner, with a special message for you from your dead goldfish.
Unfortunately, my scruples prevent me from doing 2) or 3) - I don't actively want to pollute people's minds for money - and 1) is not something I have the aptitude for...