{"id":1629,"date":"2025-04-30T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2025-04-30T10:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T10:00:21","slug":"dulcetly-kirsten-bowen-adventures-in-self-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/dulcetly-kirsten-bowen-adventures-in-self-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Dulcetly (Kristy Bowen): Adventures in self-publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"

(from a post on Kristy Bowen’s blog Dulcetly | notes on a bookish life \u2013 03 March 2025))<\/p>\n

I was moving some books around on my shelf and realized I have now published just as many books via self-publishing as I did traditional publishing….<\/p>\n

After 2020, I felt a shift in my relationship toward po-biz and publishing, as well as a general backlog and build-up of unpublished work. In those intervening years, I’ve had fairly long routines of writing poems daily (or at least fragments)\u00a0 By the time 2021 had rolled around,\u00a0 was sitting on three full-length manuscripts that I genuinely had no idea what to do with. I submitted at least two of them during reading periods for my current press, but nothing was picked up those go-rounds. I am not really a contest person, especially if they have high entrance fees and the idea of finding an forging another relationship with an indie seemed an up-hill climb.\u00a0 And no one publisher could possibly take on as many books as I had stuffed away in my hard drive.<\/p>\n

(More at Dulcetly<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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