We talked a lot lately how we got to the point that many authors have found that self-publishing is much better than going to a large publisher. This is leading some to reject advances from publishers large that it alone. And some wonder whether it makes sense for authors to bother with the publication of offers for more.



In fact, some authors seem to agree with that. Novelist Polly Courtney, who had attained self-published a couple of books a few years ago, leveraged the success of a three books with Harper Collins. However, now is in the news because at the launch party of the third book ... HarperCollins announced it is dropping and re self-publishing. Part of the problem? The "marketing" that always HarperCollins. In his mind, he tried to pigeonhole his work in a category that did not belong.

"My writing has been shoehorned into a place that is not appropriate for it," said this morning. "It is commercial fiction is not literature, but the real problem I have is that it has been completely defined as women's fiction ... Yes, it is turning the page, no, not war and peace. But it should be portrayed as chick lit. "

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"I'm not opposed to the girl on to term," said Courtney, "but I think that's what my book is.'s Involvement with the chick lit is that it is a girl who wants to know the man of her dreams. [My books] are the social issues - this time on a woman in a boys' MAG and the impact of media on society, and feminism. "

Apparently, the issue of the covers has been going on for three books, HarperCollins what is falling at the first opportunity - and do so in a very public way. The last straw was apparently the position in this last book.

The jacket, which shows the food of chicken with light from a pair of thin legs, the novel twists, Courtney thought. "The titles and covers have been a problem with my three HarperCollins books, from the beginning," he said. "If it were me again certainly would not have signed with them is a feeling that every author should be grateful for any attention they can get from any editor -.. That must take what they can get, but I think I should have had my signal on the basis of what he had written so far. "

His decision to ditch its publisher was publicly the result of "three years of pent-up frustration," he said. "People are looking for in my books and say, 'you have become chick lit" he said. "The irony is that what is in books has not changed. For their part to Avon, in terms of the editing process does not try to change what is inside of something else. It is the packaging. From the perspective of the reader, that "you will see on the shelf and I think this is chick lit, and it is not. "

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