The Fiction Focus pages of the July 2019 issue of Writing Magazine featured four writers who are all successfully published, three commercially and one as a selfpublishing sensation.
But how do you decide which path to publication would be right for you and your own novel (or even novels) to take? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach? Commercial publication by a large and famous publishing house, rather than a small independent one, is likely to be the aim of many debut novelists, who will have seen reports in the press of the six or seven figure advances against royalties paid to celebrity novelists, and to some previously unknown debut authors, too.