Linda Howe Steiger
Writing a poem is like
 dropping a rose petal
down the Grand Canyon
and waiting for the echo.
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Publishing an Indie e-Book

12/3/2012

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November 21

Think of it as the book equivalent of an Indie film: do what you want to do how you want to do it without the interference of agents and media gurus who believe they know what the public wants. It was a leap for me to give up on the process of finding a traditional agent and publisher, but after a two year search, that went at the pace of a slow snail (standard: send me a query and if you don't hear from me in three months, query again), then if they liked the idea of the book (and a number of agents did), you send thirty pages or so, and wait for six months till they get 

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