Anyone familiar with Amazon's
CreateSpace? Not the fanfiction publishing thingy (I know that's got problems) but the regular book selfpublishing thingy. My teacher was at this writers/publishers conference last month and Amazon really made an effort of convincing people they were the best thing since sliced bread in regards to publishing. He was
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http://www.amazon.com/Bone-Rider-J-Fally-ebook/dp/B00G97VBE2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394728775&sr=8-1&keywords=Bone+Rider
Also, she has awesome fan fiction as well in Fast n Furious, Hawaii Five-O and Losers.
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The self-pub option seems like not too bad a fit because you already have a kind of fan following for the novel i.e. people who be interested in it and probably willing to generate promotion. I can't speak from personal experience whether or not Amazon is the best option, but they're certainly the largest and most prolific slice of the market which has both advantages and disadvantages. You're actually the third of my friends I'll point towards Chuck Wendig and his blog 'terribleminds' in the past couple of weeks, he's a published author - both traditional and self-pub - in Fantasy and writing-meta and he's had some spirited discussions about publishing and newbie authors breaking into the business these past few weeks, I think you'll find a lot of useful stuff there.
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Have you tried to promote it around to some of the US markets? Maybe look into Writer's Market to see places that you can send it (e-mail sending), and at least give that a try for a bit first.
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