Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

Paying To Get Your Book Published

Paying to Get Your Book Published

By Elton Camp

To be published is every writer’s desire
But a paid publisher should you hire?
I’ve known a few who’ve gone that route
Who learned to their sorrow what it’s about

You can go for self-publishing or vanity
Both will be bad choices far as I can see
Neither will care if you book does well
It is left up to you to try to make it sell

If you get hundreds of copies of your book
Think how well stored away they’ll look
If with “on-demand” you decide to go
It likely will be but little better, though

Bookstores aren’t going to deal with you
And the money you spent, you will rue
A few will be bought by family & friend
But you will only look silly in the end

What everyone is secretly going to say
He couldn’t get it published without pay
To think not, there’s no need to believe
Folks will laugh at you up their sleeve

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