Pub 101: Trade vs Indie Publishing and Backstory

Story Grid Writing Podcast

Shawn Coyne

Books, Language Learning, Authors, Education, Story, Publishing, Arts, Creativity, Writing, Fiction Writing

4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2016

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

In this three part series, Shawn and Tim discuss the ins and outs of the publishing industry. They share their backstory and answer the question, "Should I indie or traditionally publish my book?"

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Story Grid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer.
0:07.2	I'm your host Tim Graal and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.
0:13.9	Sean Coyne is an editor with over 25 years experience. He is the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid, and he is helping
0:22.6	me figure out how all of this writing stuff works. Now in this episode, this is a special episode.
0:29.2	We are doing a publishing 101 series. We touched on a few publishing things a couple months ago,
0:35.4	and it seemed to get really good feedback. So we want to spend
0:38.8	a few episodes walking through how all of this publishing stuff works, answering your questions.
0:45.9	And in this episode in particular, we talked through Sean's background and publishing and how I've
0:51.9	worked in publishing as well so that you know where we're coming from.
0:55.0	And Sean's background alone is a fascinating look into how publishing works.
1:00.0	And then towards the end of the episode, we talk specifically about the question of whether or not you should traditionally publish your book or indie publish your book.
1:08.0	And both Sean and I give our perspectives on that. So again, this is a
1:12.6	multi-part series around publishing. We're calling it Publishing 101. This is the very first part.
1:18.4	I think you're really going to enjoy it and it's going to help you have an insight into publishing
1:22.1	that you probably don't have. So we're going to jump in and get started. So Sean and I have decided we're going to do
1:29.9	a couple of these episodes talking about the publishing world. We've gotten a lot of questions
1:35.9	about how publishing works. We've kind of brushed against this topic a few times, but we wanted
1:43.8	to just do a couple episodes to kind of
1:46.7	pull back from the intense editorial process that I've been going through, which is kind of nice,
1:52.3	and spend a couple episodes just talking about how the publishing industry works and trying to answer as many common
2:02.6	questions as we possibly can. So to kick us off, Sean and I are both going to kind of give
2:08.8	our background of how we work in publishing, just so you know where we're coming from. And then we're
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