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Re: [GWL]: Agent or no agent?



Tom Ogren wrote:

>     As to "the vast majority of garden books never made royalties and that authors had better
> simply count the advance they got as the only money the book would ever make,"   I'd say, do
> your own PR and do a good job of it, and you will most certainly NOT be one of those
> writers whose book never earns more than its advance.
>     That said, there is a ton of great advice in Douglas Green's email on
> this.

And in your post as well, Tom. I have filed these both in a file I keep called "book business"
and will be referring to them often, believe me!

I never realized (and the publisher of my last book never bothered to tell me) that I could buy
copies of my own book for half price! I would have done a lot more promoting of that one had I
known that.
Carol
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