Game Plan: Choosing Between Traditional and Self Publishing

by Deanna Roy

Royalty Check, Reality Check is a series of humor essays on writing the best possible novel and choosing between traditional and self-publishing.

Part 2: Game Plan helps you choose your battle - wow an agent to blaze your trail to the publishing house and an advance. Or, venture into the Wild West of indie e-book publishing.

Essays in Game Plan:

How to Stalk an Agent without Invoking a Restraining Order
Attending writing conferences to meet the agent of your dreams

I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up
Surviving the cold-query game, 80s Style

There’s Gold in Them Thar E-readers
Venturing into the Wild West of self-publishing to strike it rich

Kindling the Fire to Get a Little Nookie
Where and how to publish e-books to maximize your income without getting SCREWED


Deanna Roy is a writer and publisher. Her humor essays on writing have appeared in The Writer magazine and on About, as well as through the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and the Writers' League of Texas. She also speaks at writing conferences, including the SCBWI Digital Conference in October 2011.

Her first novel, Baby Dust, was released in October 2011 by Casey Shay Press. Her original children's story Dust Bunnies: Secret Agents will be released in 2012 as an iPhone/iPad app by Polycot Labs. She also writes an indie published middle grade series under the name DD Roy.

38 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 7, 2011

About the author

Deanna Roy is the six-time USA Today bestselling author of women's fiction. She is a fierce advocate for all the children in her care, biological, fostered, and adopted, and the mothers, who like her, lost babies to miscarriage.

She writes books under four names:
Deanna Roy with three-hanky reads in the Forever series:


JJ Knight with her romantic comedy Pickleverse:


Abby Tyler with sweet small-town romance, including the Applebottom series:


Annie Winters with romantic suspense serials, including The Vigilante's Lover:


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Deanna also writes a series of books for middle grade readers, including JINNIE WISHMAKER, MARCUS MENDER, and ELEKTRA CHAOS.

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