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Sapphire Books

Guest Post: Dating a Small Press

By Karelia Stetz-Waters

January 27, 2014 by OoliganPress Leave a Comment

Guest Post: Dating a Small Press

I struck out. I had written a terrific novel. I got a dynamite agent, and … she couldn’t sell my book. I wasn’t really surprised. The Admirer is a thriller about a serial killer with an amputee fetish. It also contains a lot of lesbian sex. I understood why mainstream publishing did not bite. “Why […]

Filed Under: Guest Blogger Tagged With: author, fiction, lesbian, Linda Kay Silver, ooligan press, publishing, Sapphire Books, Self-Publishing, small press, The Admirer, writer

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