A friend, who is a writer, is in the process of self-publishing her book. She reached out to me after she had trouble finding a competent and affordable formatter for her book. She said, “I find this incredibly hard. So many of the next steps unfold once you do another step and it just piles…
Traditional publishers want to know if new authors (particularly in the nonfiction arena) have a “platform” that they can tap into when it comes time to sell their book. (Yes, that’s why celebrities get book deals — they have a built-in audience.) If you are self-publishing, you need a large, established platform even more than…
There are a number of ways to self-publish a print book but this post is about publishing using a Print On Demand (POD) publisher. There are other options, for instance, using a vanity press or a local printer, but most of the business owners I work with like the freedom of being able to order…