Bleeding Ink

Special Guest: Scott James with his Typewriter Poetry I’m often at a loss for whether I want to seek an agent and publish via traditional channels or publish independently or find some happy hybrid blend of which I haven’t yet seen any compelling success stories. And having only self-published, I yearn to understand the traditional model so that I (1) know what I’m missing and (2) can replicate it as best I can. Debbie Weil has trod both roads and favors whistling to her own tune. You see, she’s published with Penguin. While that yielded an education in managing a relationship with a Big 5, it did little else. She sold roughly 10,000 copies of The Corporate Blogging book—a not-so-insignificant number by any means, but to Penguin it was tater tots opposed to owning the potato farm. And if you were to ask her today if she could redo it, team with Penguin over self-publishing through her own company Voxie Media, you’d receive a different response forged from dense steel that can only be crafted through experien