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Here’s the Right Publishing Path for You.

Meghan Stevenson
2 min readAug 19, 2024

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OK, so: That’s a trick headline.

I don’t know what publishing path is right for you. Most of the time, I’m dropping into your inbox to share how traditional publishing works because that’s what I know.

However, I’m not against self-publishing as an avenue for authors — or working with a hybrid publisher either. Both can be appropriate for authors and often, even a better choice than traditional.

There isn’t a singular choice that is best for everyone.

That’s why my goal in offering free information is to help you make the right choice for YOU.

And what choice should that be?

In my professional opinion — that depends on what your goals are.

Some folks want to create a large impact and are comfortable building a large audience and infrastructure in their business and life to support all of that. For these folks, traditional publishing is the best option because:

  • The distribution a traditional publisher offers can support and fulfill their goals of selling 20,000+ books to their existing audience
  • An advance helps to pay for help from people like me to get the book written and ready for publication
  • Another route simply wouldn’t match with their…

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Meghan Stevenson
Meghan Stevenson

Written by Meghan Stevenson

I help entrepreneurs, experts and thought leaders create book proposals that sell to major publishers. I also run marathons, save senior dogs and love the Mets.

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