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Welcome friends to my new blog. I’m branching off from the C&E Blog to focus my efforts on a soon-to-be-released nonfiction book to help emerging authors decide on the best publishing avenue and marketing strategy for their book(s). With this…
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In Loving Memory…
Yesterday an amazing and kind man left this earth. Benjamin Somerlot was only 28 years old. He bravely fought a rare and painful form of bone cancer called Ewing’s Sarcoma for the past two years. The last few months of…
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Happy <3 Day!
Twelve years ago today Ethan proposed to me. He stood in the tiny kitchen in our little cabin in the woods of Northern California and asked me to be his wife. He presented me with this teeny tiny emerald ring.…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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