Publish with desktop publishing houses

I do not know how the sales figures will go, but surely the desktop publishing houses they make up a large part of the books already published almost anywhere in the world. And it is that literature is democratized. Because we all have something to tell.

You can start writing just for the sake of it, letting yourself be carried away by a powerful need on indeterminate occasions. Or perhaps it is something of a good idea that haunts our minds and we dare to undertake it to see if we are able to shape it. The point is that once faced with the necessary task of liberating all sorts of preconceived ideas about the art of writing; After racking your brains and balancing inspiration and perspiration as each one requires, one good day that book finally arrives.

A work that does not hurt like childbirth, without a doubt. But it is something that shares a certain birthing similarity to the world. And of course, we all want the best for our creatures.

Curiously, the desktop publishing with which so many writers begin their literary careers is becoming a recurring formula. In fact, a reverse procedure has been observed. Because if before it was writers who were looking for publishers, now there are some top-level publishers that create labels like umbrellas that collect a multitude of writers.

Although, from my point of view, the idea of ​​desktop publishing makes more sense in smaller and more accessible publishers. Because in the end, publishing with Caligrama, the label linked to Penguin Random House, seems more like delivering a book to an industrial production chain than to a publisher in charge of launching your work (son) to the world.

Perhaps it is precisely due to a feeling of control of the processes or to that idea, now almost romantic, of the most personal treatment for a matter like the one at hand. Because if our son has problems we should start looking for solutions. In that sense, if our book presents some shortcomings or offers potential improvements, we can always receive a criticism about it from a closer editor or from its correction office (or whatever the department on duty is called).

The point is to be able to proudly present our book. Offer that novel or essay to all types of readers in search of fascinating feedback in the form of criticisms of all kinds that feed back our writer's side. Because yes, when one begins to write the hobby keeps calling, yearning to become a profession but always enjoying that time in solitude dedicated to relating new worlds.

In addition to the well-known desktop publishing houses, we also have the option of self-publishing. And beware that I make a good difference between both terms self-publishing vs self-publishing. Because it is not the same at all. When we self-publish we do not stick to any style or pattern, we launch our work to the world and let it be what God wants ...

That's where the Kindle for Amazon option stands out. Only in front of the world you yourself can upload your book to try to sell it in ebook and also on paper. Layout strips and your own designs, hoping you have not screwed up much, you upload your text reviewed by yourself with the hope of having been objective enough and capable of detecting mistakes and other kits ... You jump into the void without an editorial stamp behind, but come on, the option is always there for kamikaze writers without a minimum of patience and dedication ...

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