Why I Plan to Traditionally Publish
Anyone in traditional publishing will tell you it's a hard world right now. Agents inboxes are overflowing with queries, meaning potential authors have to do more and write better to stand out. (And yet we keep getting trash books, but that's another problem for another post.) AI is a big problem, just like everywhere else. Publishing and books are getting more expensive. They don't want to take risks. The discrimination against white, Christian authors is real. These days, indie publishing is easier than ever. So why am I still pursuing traditional publishing? It's a good question, and one I've found myself wondering as I work on querying and hunting down agents. But these are the answer I keep coming back to. #1: I want to have my books in bookstores and libraries One of my biggest goals with publishing is to write clean books for teens in a world increasingly filled with garbage books. Part of that, to me, is getting my books in bookstores and libraries across th
