Helen Scheuerer could have traditionally published her debut novel, but she decided to self-publish instead. Months later, she quit her day job and never looked back.
Helen Scheuerer took a chance on herself to self-publish her debut novel in 2017. She's never looked back.About a decade ago, Helen Scheuerer had secured a book deal with a traditional publisher for a literary fiction manuscript.While Scheuerer was editing that untitled manuscript in 2016, she experimented with writing young adult fantasy romance to escape from the pressure.That was when she realised she'd been "forcing into a box to write 'serious' literature".
" a lot more than I was earning at my day job, and it was more money than I thought was possible," the Australian-born, Aotearoa/New Zealand-based writer tells ABC Arts. Iron & Embers is a trope-filled dark academia love story that follows Wren Embervale, an alchemist-turned-assassin fans of the original Thezmarr series will recognise.Scheuerer says she's had interest from traditional publishers ever since she started working on Heart of Mist but was reluctant to go through the process again after the experience she had with her previous literary fiction manuscript.
Before she'd even started writing Heart of Mist, she'd completed a degree in creative writing as well as a masters in publishing. And she enrolled in a $1,000 course after she decided to self-publish her debut novel. "And while you're doing all that, you're also getting the cover designed, trying to build a platform so that once you've got a physical product, you can launch it there … and a launch party," Scheuerer explains.Though Scheuerer has typeset and marketed her self-published books, she's hired experts for everything else and puts the initial investment at roughly $5,000 per book for her earlier novels.
It's still a lot. But Scheuerer says working at such a pace ensures she has multiple books "in the back pocket" that she can release at regular intervals.
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