If you're an African American fiction author who has ever tried to publish a novel or even a short story, you know how difficult of a process it is. To begin with, once your story or novel is written, you need to get an agent. A literary agent is the person who takes your novel and who shops it around to the various publishing houses in order to get it picked up. But in order to get a literary agent you need to spend a great deal of time shopping yourself around. This can be a very long and frustrating process for any African American fiction author.
Fortunately this isn't the only way to get published. In today's digital world, an African American fiction author can get noticed faster than ever before, thanks to ebooks. Ebooks are a digital copy of your work. It's like sending your readers the content that you've typed on your word processing program instead of having it printed onto paper. If you choose to write an ebook, you will find that the process is much smoother and goes much quicker than it does if you were to publish your novel in the traditional way. This is because there is no expense in printing anything.
Thankfully now it's possible for an African American fiction author to get published easier than ever. It begs the question of what would have happened if something like this existed many years ago, when slaves were owned. One can only imagine what types of work we would have now by the many unknown extraordinary authors if it had.
