Category: Publishing Industry
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Careful, You’ll End Up in my Novel
Writers write what they know. Even if your story is set in a fictional, futuristic dystopian society, the characters’ behaviors and traits reflect what the writer knows. What the writer has experienced or witnessed. This past Christmas, my mother gifted me with a tea towel that reads “Careful, You’ll End Up In My Novel,” and…
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Welcome Friends!
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 blog, I hope to post three times a week on the publishing industry, marketing/social networking,…
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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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