If you have decided to self-publish your book, you must now consider an essential part of a successful self-published book: design. (As mentioned yesterday, editing also is essential. You can learn a bit about that here.) Without a great cover and interior book design, your self-published book wonāt stand up to similar traditional books. These books will have had the…
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9 Reality Checks for Writers Considering Self-Publishing
What does it really take to produce a best-selling self-published book? A lot of hard work and a professional attitude towards the book from start to finish. Today Sue Collier, a publishing consultant and author of The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing, 5th Edition and the upcoming Jump Start Your Book Sales, 2nd Edition, is back with another guest post. (Read…
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Do-It-Yourself Publishing: Is It For You?
I frequently get asked, āWhat, if any, benefit is there to traditionally publishing a book?ā This question typically comes from an aspiring writer who has just learned they must do the same amount of promotional work to help sell their book if they land a contract with a traditional publishing house as they will need to do if they self-publish…
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11 Ways to Zig When Everyone Else is Zagging in Social Media
When I tell aspiring authors they must get involved with social media, they almost always cringe.Ā Much like blogging, they just donāt want to do it. They donāt see the purpose, they donāt understand how to make it relevant to their books and their work as writers, and they see it as enormously time-consuming. Yet, today social networking and blogging…
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Get 30 Million Unique Visitors to See Your Content Per Month
Several of my guest bloggers, like Linda Lee and V. Michael Santoro, have mentioned e-zine articles or article marketing already this month. Iāve discussed it in my own blog posts as well. I figured it was time to take a closer look at this article form and method of publicizing not only books but just about anything you doāteleseminars, coaching,…
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