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It's about marketing. From a purely logical standpoint, you are already a published author, since you did publish a book and you did sell some copies, no matter how few. So, in theory you have you...
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2019-12-13T11:56:52Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T11:57:56Z (over 4 years ago)
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## It's about marketing. From a purely logical standpoint, you are already a published author, since you did publish a book and you did sell some copies, no matter how few. So, in theory you have your answer. Yet, some publishing companies may look down on you. Self-publishing has not a great reputation among traditional companies; so telling everyone that you published there could play against your own interest. Moreover, you refer to your own book as "crudely written", so I suppose you're not particularly proud of it. Would you be ok with the idea of editors glancing at your past work and judging you by it? Does it add value to your background or not?
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2019-05-23T15:09:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
Original score: 5