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In 2011, at the behest of others who had read my original manuscript for \u201cPatriots of Treason\u201d I sent out inquiries to numerous publishers.\u00a0 Most of the publishers never even acknowledged receiving them, and enlisting a literary agent to assist in finding a publisher was nearly as difficult.<\/p>\n
Finally, a small Midwest publishing firm made an offer to publish the title and six months later I had launched my first book.\u00a0 As I began to tour the country promoting \u201cPatriots of Treason\u201d, I learned many things the hard way.\u00a0 First, I seldom met another author who had anything nice to say about their publisher or publishing experience.\u00a0 Secondly, because my fictional story based on current political events from a conservative point of view \u201cbranded\u201d my book in the very liberal and progressive world of publishing and book retailers which would ultimately limit exposure of my title on retail book shelves.<\/p>\n
Despite these difficulties, as I was traveling through a North Carolina airport I stopped into an airport bookstore and there to my amazement was my book prominently displayed with a healthy inventory in a very good location.\u00a0\u00a0 I naturally figured if this could happen in this major airport bookstore, why couldn\u2019t it happen everywhere?\u00a0 When inquiring how this occurred, my publisher had no definitive answers.\u00a0 To this day, our best guess was a particular retail book store corporate buyer liked, or a local manager promoted it \u2013 but even the clerk at the bookstore couldn\u2019t tell me.<\/p>\n
When it came time for me to start realizing royalty payments from the publisher months later, and despite healthy book sales, I always seemed to be in a negative royalty scenario with the publisher.\u00a0 Even when royalty statements were owed to me, they were always late and I seemed to be chasing my royalties on a monthly basis.\u00a0 The final domino fell when the publisher had a major publishing event at the University of Missouri, with all of their titles displayed and promoted \u2013 except mine.\u00a0 My title was deemed \u201ctoo conservative\u201d to expose at a public university by my own publisher, despite being one of their bestsellers!<\/p>\n
During the period in which this publisher had my publishing rights, I dove deeply into the publishing business learning how books end up on retail books shelves, understanding the online book sales strategies and Amazon.\u00a0 Being an entrepreneur, I figured I could take my own title and have better success than my original publishing company \u2013 but not as a self-published work but by becoming an independent publisher.\u00a0 Because I kept my rights to the title (authors should never relinquish rights), I terminated the publishing contract and re-released \u201cPatriots of Treason\u201d with a new and updated cover, and with my own marketing techniques.<\/p>\n
Later would come the sequel, \u201cA State of Treason\u201d which was even more successful than the first.\u00a0\u00a0 Now we were ready to take on other authors and give conservative and libertarian authors an alternative to the East Coast and West Coast liberal publishing houses.\u00a0 Over the years we have had great success with our authors, whom we consider family and many of our authors have come to us at the recommendation of existing authors\u2019 publishing experiences with us, which is one of the highest compliments we could receive.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At Defiance Press & Publishing, our commitment to our authors is one of integrity, transparency, communication and partnership!\u00a0 To our readers, we offer high-quality, thought-provoking titles from an ever-growing outstanding family of authors.<\/p>\n
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