Perry Rhodan
How should I publish my book?
My book will be published on lulu.com (self-publishing), I’m just wondering how should I publish it. I’ve written 600 pages worth of stories and want to release it in monthly installments. I’m thinking 45 or 65 pages, or 29 pages but people like long books. Should it be short or long? I want to do a series but I also want to think about what the reader wants. From what I heard, the most successful series of short books is Perry Rhodan, a book series that has 50-60 pages per book.
lulu lets me keep the copyright so if i dont like them i can go to someone else
Have you considered getting the stories professionally published (as in, they pay you) first? You can alway self-publish them later as reprints. But if you publish them at Lulu first, you won’t be able to publish them later in magazines or anthologies.
Try going here to check for paying markets: http://www.duotrope.com
If you self-publish at Lulu, and you work like the devil on publicity and marketing, you may sell as many as sixty or seventy copies of each of your books.
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[Update] No matter who you go with you’ll keep your copyright. The problem is that if you go to Lulu first you won’t be *able* to go anywhere else.
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