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I've been using Wattpad since 2012, and much has changed not only on Wattpad, but also in t...
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hi.
Welcome to perhaps the most gate-kept industry since the dawn of time.
I decided to officially sit down and write some advice about publishing, since I do get a fair amount of questions regarding publishing that I'd like to answer in case others have the same thoughts. But first....
Allow me to introduce myself. I go by Ether here in the Wattpad universe, but I would never use that as an actual pen name, just so you know (it's the main character in my fantasy series lol). I have a degree in marketing, and work for a publishing company that publishes a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction books as well as children's books and textbooks. I work with authors, agents, and editors (I am none of the three, by the way), and have had long discussions with each to better understand the different facets of the publishing industry. There are many things that are still confusing even to well-seasoned executives, but I do feel that I've unlocked some sort of "secret sauce" that many authors are unaware of when it comes to the inner workings of publishing, so I am here to impart some of my knowledge on you. Woo!
Disclaimer: I would like to post sections for this guidebook in chunks rather than separately, so it may be a little while to see actual... content on this book. But trust me, it's in the works!
You probably opened this book with a lot of expectations. Before you become deeply engrossed in knowledge (this is 100% a joke), I wanted to inform you of several things this book aims to discuss, and also what it will not be discussing (b̶e̶c̶a̶u̶s̶e̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶n̶ ̶I̶ ̶h̶a̶v̶e̶ ̶q̶u̶e̶s̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶,̶ ̶I̶ ̶l̶i̶k̶e̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶k̶n̶o̶w̶ ̶w̶h̶e̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶a̶ ̶b̶o̶o̶k̶ ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶a̶n̶s̶w̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶n̶o̶t̶).
This being said, there are Q&A chapters divided by topic, so please refer to those if you have a question, and maybe your question will already be answered!
So...
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