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Hi everyone,

So I'm sharing the story of how I landed a publishing deal for my YA fantasy book, THE CLEARING. It's publishing later this year with Evernight Teen.

My Rejection Story: https://youtu.be/H3_BQpiOwXg

I'm sharing this because I've read so many success stories which make publishing seem easy...Quite frankly, I found most of them a real bummer and impossible to relate. Instead, here's my long, arduous journey and all the things I learned along the way.

For any unpublished authors, there's also information about a free mentoring scheme that helped me - it could help you too!

Best of luck with your writing,
Sam

Congratulations! Great perseverance story

I will definitely watch!! Thank you for sharing and congrats

Thank you, both. ☺️

Samantha wrote: "Hi everyone,

So I'm sharing the story of how I landed a publishing deal for my YA fantasy book, THE CLEARING. It's publishing later this year with Evernight Teen.

My Rejection Story: https://you..."

Thank you for sharing your story. Like many authors, I found the hype versus the reality to be quite different.

After a few years of hearing great feedback from beta readers and rejections from agents, I finally decided to self-publish. I will publish my second book in a few months, and the third by next winter.

I never considered a direct to publisher approach, but your perseverance is inspirational.

Great work and all the best of blessings for your book.

Good to hear of your success. I am into two years and counting of rejections by agents and publishers, and you give me hope.

From the start self-published, but truly a great story.

Publishing is brutal to get done, but if you can do it without an agent, you're going to be better off for it -- IF you know what you are doing, and do it right. Otherwise the publishers will rip you off and take advantage of you significantly worse than if you'd had an agent.

I mean, there was a scandal a while back where it was discovered that sales were significantly higher than publishers were reporting to authors and they owed quite a bit of back pay.

Samantha wrote: "Hi everyone,

So I'm sharing the story of how I landed a publishing deal for my YA fantasy book, THE CLEARING. It's publishing later this year with Evernight Teen.

My Rejection Story: https://you..."
I have a question: was all the effort worth the results?

Hey everyone

Congratulations on landing the publisher, Rumpel. I think having a publisher helps in getting a book circulated. Book stores often won't touch self-published authors, and the publishers also may have marketing devices and strategies.

Stay safe, and God bless.

Bob Drews
www.vertupublishing.com
www.robert-drews.com

Samantha,

Legitimate well-established publishers provide production, distribution, marketing, promotion, ISBN, and copyright services to authors. No agent required.

Hopefully, you read the publisher's contract carefully before you signed. Although the majority of publishers are legitimate and honest, as in all aspects of life, there are some that are not.

I wish you success.

I wish you much success!