To be published or to self publish...Your thoughts and why?

Face rejection to possibly persevere via self publishing...when you're new to the game, what should an author do?
I would love to hear from the perspective of those who have taken this journey themselves. Which direction did you take and why?

Writing with accents-any suggestions?!

Hello all!
A question for the masses here, I am working on another novel and would like some of my characters to have accents.
Any suggestions on where I can find good advice on Australian, British, African or Irish (Dublin area) accents? Writing a book is a long process and I was hoping for some time saving suggestions for this part of it from my fellow readers and writers:-) Thanks in advance for any tips!

My first Blog!



Hello, my name is Kristen and this is my first blog ever, so I'm really excited to enter the blogger's world! I know there are tons of different types of blogs out there, I would just like mine to be the type that gets others to read my material and comment on it. I started this blog mostly, to get a large group of Beta readers for my first novel ever, The Elements: Pride. I would love to make a difference in the direction that reading books has taken. Writing a good one would be a step in that direction:-)

 

The trailer above was a project I did for the wonderfully talented author Anna Banks. I'm proud of myself because it's the first trailer I've ever made, so I posted it;-) Oh and yes, I am aware that I used almost all clips from the CW's Vampire Diaries. I thought there were a lot of characters that fit Anna Banks book, Of Triton:-)

Anyhoo, if you have  a second or sixty would you mind leaving your opinions as to whether or not you think this is a good way to attract Beta readers? I wrote a little cheer for you guys....

 

A very quick little poem for Beta Readers:

 

Beta readers, you're the best

put my writing to the test,

like it, hate it, up to you

leave a comment, then you're through!

(This would really help me too;-)

 

 

So whado'ya say guys?

 

 

 

P.S I also started another blog to try and attract more readers

http://fiercewriter.blogspot.com/

and my website is

 http://kristensanchez.weebly.com/about-the-author.html