Hello and welcome to the Story Grid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better

writer. I'm your host Tim Graal and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a

story that works. Joining me shortly as Sean Coyne, he is the creator of Story Grid, the author

of the book Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode,

we take a hard look at publishing through the lens of my book, The Threshing. So the Threshing

back when we realized it was going to become a real book, we had to start talking about what we're

going to do to publish it. And so in this

episode, Sean and I start walking through that decision process. And it leads us to a really

interesting conclusion about the future of story grip. So let's jump in and get started.

As my book, The Threshing is coming to an end, it's now in copy editing,

which means I think it's actually going to happen. You know, as we were talking about what to do

with the threshing, this has now been, you know, a while ago. It kept coming back to this idea

of, well, how are we going to publish it?

And there's basically the two options, right?

We have traditional publishing, which, you know, you've been an agent before.

Maybe you could represent the book and take it to New York and try to get somebody to publish it.

Or I could just take the book and go self-publish it and kind of see what I can do with it. And with those two kind of options, I just want to get your take because you've been

on both sides of that table, you've been also in publishing, you've agented, you've owned a

publishing house, you've been involved in self. You've agented. You've owned a publishing house. You've been

involved in self-publishing projects. And so looking at where we are, you know, in 2019 with

publishing, I would just love to hear from you kind of how you see things from your really unique

point of view. I don't know if I know anybody who's worked

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