Now that’s we’re underway, I think I should introduce myself. My name is Susan Buckley. I am one of the Managing Editors here at PaperBox Books Publishing. I am also an author who publishes under the name Sue Nelson Buckley.
We formed PaperBox Books to allow authors, especially first time authors to establish a track record of sales and experience to make them more attractive to the big publishers. While it is rare that a large publisher will choose to re-publish a previously published work, selling your first book through PaperBox Books Publishing will give you a better chance to sell your 2nd book.
As the wheels turn in your head, pondering the possibilities, let me tell you more about myself so you know who you’re entrusting the care and feeding of your ‘baby’ too.
I have a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of New Brunswick. PaperBox Books Publishing is the fifth small business I’ve been involved in over the past two decades. The only one that is no longer in existence, Sue Buckley Photography, was recently merged into its sister company SNB Consulting Services.
I’ve been doing web design, web copy, website maintenance and promotion in the corporate world for the past four years. More recently I’ve been involved in internet marketing and exploring the opportunities this form of media has opened.
Through manuals, instruction and hands on editing of other peoples work to better identify the errors in my own, I’ve been working hard to improve the quality of my writing. By the way, I highly recommend joining an editing group. Finding the right one can be tricky, but the pay-off is huge.
My first book started off as 30 page short story back in 1987. During the early nineties, I decided the story had potential as a novel and expanded it to over 200 pages. My first rejection from the publisher came in 1996. Devastated, I put it aside for a while to later learn that the rejection I’d received was really an invitation to follow the suggestions for fixing it and resubmit. In 2008 I pitched it directly to an editor at the Surrey International Writers’ Conference. With advice from her, I made some changes and resubmitted. It was rejected again but this time it was the market, not my writing, which dictated the reason for the refusal.
Since then I’ve written two more novels. Both were rejected because of their inability to fit neatly into a genre. In speaking with other authors and professional copy-editors, this seems to be a common occurrence. This is why we created PaperBox Books Publishing. We wanted to give authors a chance to publish their novels and short stories as e-books and work together as a network of authors to promote each other, learn the ropes of the publishing industry and sell our books.
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