# Is there any mid-ground between (greedy dying) traditional publishing, and lonely self-publishing?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 30, 2017, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-mid-ground-between-greedy-dying-traditional-publishing-and-lonely-self-publishing/797675 "2017-09-30T20:40:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-mid-ground-between-greedy-dying-traditional-publishing-and-lonely-self-publishing/797675/21 "2017-10-02T02:04:32Z")

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> [@squish7](#):
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> I wasn’t intending to get into my specific project (it’s not finished),

Finish it, then ask questions.

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-mid-ground-between-greedy-dying-traditional-publishing-and-lonely-self-publishing/797675/22 "2017-10-02T02:38:52Z")

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> [@nightshadea](#):
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> might I ask which shadowrun novel ? I read something like the first 50 …

My novel is _Borrowed Time_. It’s one of the new crop that came out after the novel line rebooted. I’ve also got two novellas (_Big Dreams_ and _Wolf and Buffalo_) and another novel coming up in early 2019 (_Veiled Extraction_).

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**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-mid-ground-between-greedy-dying-traditional-publishing-and-lonely-self-publishing/797675/23 "2017-10-02T02:59:51Z")

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YAY although there were a few that were sketchy when they disappeared from the shops I enjoyed them whos publishing them? are they on amazon? …pm info if ya want …

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**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-mid-ground-between-greedy-dying-traditional-publishing-and-lonely-self-publishing/797675/24 "2017-10-02T03:03:57Z")

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> [@nightshadea](#):
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> YAY although there were a few that were sketchy when they disappeared from the shops I enjoyed them whos publishing them? are they on amazon? …pm info if ya want …

PMed.

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