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How I Published My Novel
And Why I Made the Decisions I Did

My first novel, Yellow Tape and Coffee, is coming out in two days. It took me years to write it, edit it, re-write it and so on. This post isn’t about all that, though. This post is about publishing.

This is not The One True Way to Publish a Novel. It’s not even really How To Publish a Novel. It is instead merely what I did. What worked (and what didn’t work) for me, and why I made the choices I did, and what I might have done otherwise.

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I am no longer querying for my novel Yellow Tape and Coffee.

Querying, for those who haven’t been obsessed with publishing for the last five years, is the act of trying to find an agent. It is a long process involving sending agents various combinations of maybe your first few pages, a “query letter”, a synopsis, a blurb, a short list of similar books, or whatever is asked for -- every agent has a different list. Ideally, one of them eventually offers you representation. 100 seems to be about the average number to contact before one does.

Once you’ve chosen one to represent your book, they then sell it to the publisher, negotiate the contracts, sell the TV rights to HBO and keep 15% of the millions of dollars they’ve gotten for you.

Well, ideally. I, however, am not doing that anymore.

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