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             Why Publish My Poetry? 

As Charles Bukowski advised in his poem 
“so you want to be a writer?”,

if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your typewriter
searching for words, don’t do it.

if you’re doing it for money or
fame, don’t do it.…

if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you’re not ready.

unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket, …
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don’t do it.

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    Why Choose Eloquent Books?
  We feel that the majority of companies promoting themselves
 as “self-publishers” are not. 
They are paid vendors.

You pay them to do the production and then
they sell your own book to you with a profit for them
and they let you sell it to others with a profit for them.

This makes no sense to us 
(we are writers and authors, too). 
How can this be a wise business investment?

If you’re a true poet-writer, you probably already know why self-publishing would be valued over traditional publishing.

• You retain the dignity of editorial and financial control
• You retain the purity of original creativity
• You cut out the middle-man
• You cut out the hassle of rejections from big presses/publishing companies
• You get bigger royalties
• You market the way you want to, to whom you want to
• And, overall, it’s more convenient

In the long run, nothing is more rewarding personally, creatively, and financially, than publishing your own work.  You see it all the time in other areas of art, whether it be writing, visual art, or music - when it comes to the corporate world and the media, artists run the risk of altering or conforming to ideas other than their own.  Conforming to someone else’s idea of good writing, or to someone else’s audience, is something that a true writer would have a hard time doing.

 Retaining the dignity of editorial and financial control, and the purity of original creativity, is unbeatable when self-publishing.  This is important to any real writer.  Only you know your intentions, down to the grammatical details of something that you write, especially in types of writing such as poetry.  That should not be tampered with.  Plus, who knows your audience better than you?  When you write for yourself and for your own audience, you already have a sense of how to publish for yourself.  When you’re a writer, you’re automatically a marketer of some kind.  We all have an idea of who our audience is and what they want to read.  And if you have a smaller and/or more easily targeted audience, then self-publishing is another advantage.

Self-publishing has become both a broad concept and a broadly misconstrued one.  There are viable businesses everywhere that allow writers and authors to “self-publish” their work, per se, while they, the business, profit off of the publishing and distributing costs paid by you, the writer.  Many companies compete with prices, but it’s not impossible to find a good one that gives you a run for your money, and actually lets you profit from your own work.  Do your research and go for the services that are provided by publishers who are also writers themselves.

Aside from that, it is overall just more convenient to self-publish.  Instead of having to print hundreds of copies of your books and handle inventory while you’re trying to sell them, with self-publishing it is often done per order, printed and shipped to the customer without you having to handle anything more.  Once you have your work in play and your prices set, the publishing services do their job.

You can also just as easily sell online on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other places just as easily as writers who use traditional publishing.

In the end, no matter what your aspirations are creatively, financially, and market-wise, self-publishing, particularly in the area of poetry, is all-around a beneficial way to go.  Whether experienced or previously published or not, once you are holding your self-published work in your hand, you have accomplished something very rewarding.

So, let it come out of your soul like a rocket… let the sun inside you burn your gut.  Just Do It!.