Author: Christine Rose
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Vanity/Subsidy (POD) Publishing
The last of the Four Basic Choices is Vanity Publishing. Normally when people say “self-publishing,” they mean this, which is why I don’t consider owning your own publishing company as “self-publishing” when talking to the public. It’s published by an independent publisher. Self-published really means Vanity Publishing in most circles. I don’t recommend this option…
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"Self Publishing" Pros & Cons
Quick summary of “Self-Publishing” Pros & Cons before we wrap this series up with Vanity Publishing (what people generally mean when they say “self-published”) tomorrow. PROS You’re the master/mistress of your own destiny Keep all the rights to your story, characters, merchandising, film/TV, etc Don’t have to wait years to see your book in print…
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Getting into Bookstores
If you want to do bookstore signings in Barnes & Nobles, you must make your book RETURNABLE when you set up your title through Lightning Source. You can choose to have LSI either destroy the books or ship them to you. Either way, you’re paying for the returns. It comes out of your income/royalties from…
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Lightning Source Distribution
There are two main book wholesalers: Ingrams and Baker & Taylor. If you have your book available in these two places, then it’ll be available virtually everywhere books are sold. Baker & Taylor have a partnership program for small publishing houses. It’s costs around $300 to sign up for it; however, if you go through…
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Intro to "Self-Publishing"
The term “self-publishing” is quite fuzzy. The boundaries of this choice bleed into both Independent Publishers on one end and Vanity Publishing on the other, thus the quotation marks. For the purposes of my forthcoming book, I’m defining “self-publishing” as a writer who publishes their own book through a publishing company they own, not a…
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Indie Publisher Pros & Cons
Thus far in the series, I’ve covered the Four Basic Publishing choices, the NY Big Boys, Literary Agents, and Independent Publishers. Before we go on to Basic Choice #3: “Self Publishing,” let’s recap with a Pro/Con list for the indie publishing avenue. PROS Validity and prestige of being picked up by a publisher A team…
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An Indie Publisher May Work for You!
Last post, I pretty much gave you a brief overview and told you things to watch out for in an Independent Publisher. Actually, most of those things from yesterday showed you how to see through a scam. “Publishers” who do those things aren’t traditional publishers. (BTW, if they go out of their way to assert…
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Indie Publishers
If you’ve decided that it’s all just too much or will take too long or is too uncertain to try for a NY Big Boy Publisher, your next choice is a smaller, independent publisher. Now indie publishers can range from large companies with dozens of employees to a “mom&pop” publishing company run by just one…
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NY Big Boys Pros & Cons
Thus far in the series, I’ve covered the Four Basic Publishing choices, the NY Big Boys, and Literary Agents. Before we go on to Basic Choice #2: Independent Publisher, let’s recap with a Pro/Con list for the Big Boy publishing avenue. PROS Huge publishing name behind you Possible marketing budget & in-house publicist Industry connections…
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Literary Agents
Literary agents, those elusive, magical creatures that will help you and your book rocket to the NY Times Best Seller List. Because without them, you have virtually no chance in getting a NY Big Boy Publisher, which is your best (but certainly not your only) chance in becoming a best-selling author on a grand scale.…
