{"id":6025,"date":"2010-05-17T05:56:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T10:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/05\/17\/my-thoughts-on-authonomy\/"},"modified":"2017-01-16T12:53:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T18:53:47","slug":"my-thoughts-on-authonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.epictales.org\/treskillard\/2010\/05\/17\/my-thoughts-on-authonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"My Thoughts On Authonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a bittersweet post to write. <\/strong>While I greatly enjoyed the interaction with other authors, I found … at least for now … that this site is not an easy way to get noticed by publishers, Christian or otherwise.<\/p>\n

To get the attention of an ABA publisher, you have to get your book’s ranking into the top five <\/strong>on the entire website, which is nearly impossible.<\/p>\n

To get the attention of a Christian publisher<\/strong>, you supposedly have to get your book’s ranking into the top five of the Christian section. <\/strong>For my own herculean efforts, I achieved, temporarily, a rank of #13, which would have dropped to #8 if the top five had been removed to the “Christian editors desk”.<\/p>\n

This did not happen at all during the three months I was there. <\/strong>Not only that, but I checked fairly carefully to see if any of the Christian publishers had commented on any of those top books … but could not find any.<\/p>\n

If I had seen any sign of hope, I would have persevered<\/strong>, but alas, I dropped out… With another major push, and with books being removed above me, it is very likely I could have made it into the top five, but I abandoned my efforts.<\/p>\n

Not that I think the non-involvement of the Christian publishers is intentional, and this is why:<\/p>\n