{"id":25021,"date":"2016-07-07T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=25021"},"modified":"2016-07-07T00:01:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T07:01:54","slug":"brooke-warner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/brooke-warner\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooke Warner: Getting Published Is Easier Than Ever. Getting Discovered, Not So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A new book by Brooke Warner\u00a0will join this stack of how-to-get published books\u00a0bristling with sticky notes. (If this image is a little soft, it’s because my trusty point-and-shoot is in the shop.) Photocopy by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall —<\/em>\u00a0Until I met Brooke Warner, I thought I’d never need to read another how-to-get-published\u00a0book. I’ve got a whole shelf of them in my writing room, marked up in pencil and ink and bristling with annotated sticky notes\u00a0–“How to Write a Book Proposal,” “Thinking Like Your Editor,” and “Platform,” to name a few.<\/p>\n

I thought I knew it all: How to write the perfect pitch. How to write to write a query letter, a book proposal, a chapter outline. How to find an agent, a publisher a publicist, a market — a reader. You get the idea.<\/p>\n

I also thought that the whole point of writing a book was to reach\u00a0thousands, maybe\u00a0tens of thousands of readers, with nice\u00a0royalties pouring in as the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n

Then along came\u00a0Brooke Warner with her latest\u00a0book<\/a> “Green Light Your Book: How Writers Can Succeed in the New Era of Publishing” (She Writes Press, 2016).<\/p>\n

I came across author and book\u00a0by chance at the Bay Area Book Festival in Berkeley a few weeks ago. I bought a copy\u00a0as a courtesy after chatting with Brooke. A few days later,\u00a0I took a peek at it over breakfast and I couldn’t put it down. Hours later I was still reading it, still in my PJs.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the world of book publishing has changed dramatically: Since I first set my sights on writing a book. Since I bought my first how-to book, “The Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book” by Susan Page, back in 1990-something. And since I first signed a contract with Patheos Press for “Wrestling with God” in 2013.<\/p>\n

Getting Published vs. Getting Discovered<\/h5>\n

Susan Page’s book served me well when “Wrestling with God”<\/a> was still a gleam in my eye. But the publishing world has since been turned upside down \u00a0— thanks to online book retailers like Amazon, thanks to ebooks, and thanks to the recent\u00a0surge\u00a0of self-published books.<\/p>\n

Getting published is easier than ever. Getting your book discovered — not so much.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Brooke has to say\u00a0about he fast-changing state of book publishing these days:<\/p>\n