If you've written a book you want to publish:
NEW: review of The Fine Print of Self-Publishing, which compares 45 publishers.
CONTRACTS FROM TRADE PUBLISHERS
PRINT-ON-DEMAND AND INTERNET-BASED PUBLISHING
www.bookpublisherscompared.com (a comparison of 45 self-publishing options)
A new book is published every 13 minutes in North America.
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The Para Promotion Program is a series of book promotion projects the author can accomplish without leaving home. The weekly assignments show the author what to do to reach his or her audience. Each assignment takes five to 120 minutes to complete. The program not only shows the author how to promote his or her current book, it is a crash course in book promotion that can be applied to future books. And authors who understand how to reach their audience tend to write books their readers want. For details, see http://ParaPromotion.com. I am an affiliate of this program (having been a Book Shepherd for Dan Poynter and Para Publishing for many years) so PLEASE PUT MY NAME (Barbara Florio Graham) into the "referred by" box on the order form. |
How to
price your self-published book
(advice from Susan Kendrick, of Write
to Your Market, Inc.
(note that hard or "case" binding runs at
least $1.00 extra per book)
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DOES YOUR EBOOK DESERVE AN AWARD? |
Publishing Realities, by Hope Clark (www.fundsforwriters.com)
How to find an Editor, a Designer, and a Printer
Notes from the sold-out workshop on Promoting Your Book or Your Business
http://www.spawn.org/editing/goodeditor.htm
Finding an agent: www.agentquery.com
http://missmark.blogspot.com (advice from an agent)
www.sfwa.org/beware/agents.html (warnings about agents)
http://everyonewhosanyone.com/agus1.html
NOTE: agents who belong to AAR are forbidden to charge reading fees. Some agents appear legitimate, but their agreements contains statements such as: "although we don't charge a reading fee, IF we accept them on as a client there is an annual contract fee of $450.00," or even charge writers a percentage of the royalties in apparent perpetuity for manuscript editing.
The Self-Publishing Experience
A CHECKLIST TO HELP YOU DECIDE ABOUT SELF-PUBLISHING
Famous Authors Who Self-Published
NEW: Review of I See Your Name Everywhere
VOICE-OVERS
& AUDIO BOOKS
Have your DVD or audio book narrated by a
professional broadcaster