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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pub .
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Examples
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I am also an un-pubbed writer and, yeah humbled is the word I am feeling right about now in regards to my writing.
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Though I never intended to come to the conclusion that self-pubbed titles may be the way e-books could evolve, it seems to be something which makes sense.
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Maybe it's a case of enough people in the SF/F fandom being burnt by bad self-pubbed titles* (which are often trade paperbacks) and enough of them having glossy covers that you're seeing the start of the inevitable reaction.
msagara: An open letter to Trade Publishers msagara 2009
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AmazonEncore approached me about one of my self-pubbed novels, and I pitched them a brand new novel instead.
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I play "spot the self-pubbed novel" in the huckster's room at conventions.
msagara: An open letter to Trade Publishers msagara 2009
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I can't think that there are more self-pubbed SF/F books out there than any other type, but maybe there's greater exposure at cons and such.
msagara: An open letter to Trade Publishers msagara 2009
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Oh, and before somebody scrambles all over themselves to point out “Walt Whitman self-pubbed leaves of grass” I was meaning this and the 20th century and the phenomenon of ignorance to contemporary poetry by a lot of self publishing poets.
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I know that those goals are unrealistic especially via a self-pubbed route.
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In a glass-is-half-full kind of way, this phenomenon of readers passing over what they think is self-pubbed is not a bad thing.
msagara: An open letter to Trade Publishers msagara 2009
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As a newbie, it helps to know that “older” pubbed authors go through this type of anxiety.
Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Preparing for Publication Anxiety 2009
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