By Joanna Penn
This is a guest post from Andre Gerard, author of Fathers: A Literary Anthology. It’s a lovely story of how self-publishing can be a rewarding journey, which I have also personally found to be true.
When I first started thinking about editing an anthology I was fifty years old, and I knew absolutely nothing about the book trade. I had a decent idea for an anthology, a deep belief in the importance of my subject, a marathoner’s tenacity, and not much more. While I had heard of slush piles and rejection slips, I didn’t even know about query letters or query packages.
Four years later, I knew far more than I wanted to know about query letters and rejection slips. I did not, though, know much more about the book trade, other... More...
