Estelle Asmodelle

Archive for May, 2008

I was invited to enter the BSG art prize and so 3 pieces of my art will be part of the of the Small Works Art Prize, at the Brunswick Street Gallery, in Fitzroy, VIC. Opening on 6th June till the 19th June 2008. See the gallery’s website here:

SMALL WORKS

See my Art website to see larger versions: http://www.abstractartist.info/

I have sent three sample chapters to three publishers, one wasn’t interested in the story, while the other two were but there were concerns that the book may not be sellable.

Clearly, a book about a transsexual, which has sex, crime, show business and other elements has the makings of a good seller. If not a best seller.
Perhaps their reluctance is not about sell-ability but rather, how to market the book. Perhaps looking to a publisher in the United States may be a better option. In any case I’ll continue seeking a publisher both here and overseas until I find the right one.

The problem with Australian publishers is that they usually do small print runs, 5,000 to start with and so on, while in the United States, it’s more like 20,000 and upward.

Additionally, there is always self publishing: originally considered failure as a writer, yet some great books have been self published, such as The Celestine Prophecy

Wikipedia have an interesting page about Self Publishing that is worth reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_publishing

It certainly is worth thinking about, with websites as a marketing device and also Amazon, distribution is not so difficult and the best part is that a writer gets to keep most of the money, instead of a mere 5% that publishers would normally provide.