A more positive outlook

Today (24th September) I received a phone call from Dean Shah from Authorhouse, who are self publishers, but not Vanity publishers. I can if successful with my manuscript, get my sci-fi story published. It will however cost me £645, so I need a better job than the one I have right now at the Academy.

With that in mind, my next port of call is the job centre website and Fish4Jobs. I need to pay for the publishing which if it gets my work out there and it was explained far clearer than reading the brochures. They cover everything and I get full royalties, they do the sales and the promotion and if I get a lit.agent afterwards they'll still publish the work.

So despite my previous reservations, the thought of waiting 2-10 years for a lit. agent to decide whether this unknown writer is worth taking that risk over, I can get my work out and published probably before Christmas or in time for January possibly. It's a lot better than I first contemplated and for once I can see that silver lining that I talked about last week.