Have you ever gone to a used book store and found uncorrected proofs for sale? Some store owners give them away. In the same store you might find multiple copies of a book that had been a best seller, once upon a time. It all has to do with how publishing works. Once a book has been accepted for publication, the publisher has to guess how many might sell. Although this is an educated guess, it always involves a risk. A friend in publishing told me that’s way it’s always important to point out a book that is similar to yours. A unique book is high risk. For a while there, anything vampires would sell. I think we might be seeing a kind of dawn rising on the vampire genre (now that I’ve written a vampire novel), but because of the—love it or hate it—success of Stephanie Meyer's Twilight saga, everyone wanted vampires. They sucked in money. A traditional publisher will send your manuscript to a copy-editor and then a typesetter....
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