but getting out of my own head is an issue that goes beyond logic. In reality, self-publishing offers me the better alternative. but that has me up against two unlikely events: 1) that i’ll sell tons of books and that 2) i’ll get reviewed by the new york times book section.
Of course, if my book becomes a smashing success, major media outlets will finally write about me as a little-scribe-beats-the-odds story. and self-publishing means that my book will probably be ignored by traditional outlets for book reviews. The single-greatest obstacle to self-publishing for me: i still have literary pretensions about writing a great american novel. asking a clear question begets meaningful answers, which makes the comments a great read too! This is a great post because your question to us is so simple and laser-sharp. What’s the big obstacle, or the little pebble that just keeps you up at night? That will bring you to the blog where you can leave your answer in the comments. If you’re reading this in your email inbox because you’re a subscriber, please click the headline of the article.
What is the single thing that’s the most confusing to you about self-publishing, the most scary, the most difficult to figure out, or the one thing that’s keeping you from getting your book into print? Thinking about this, and about all the questions I’ve answered, now I’d like to ask all of you a question: I have to admit that I learn quite a bit from the questions people ask. How does Part A fit with Part B? Given that, what should I do next? Over a third of these questions have to do with e-books and, again, that’s not surprising.īut if I could cut to the chase of virtually every question I get asked, it would be something like this: Book indexing, proofing, editing and translation: 6.Publisher registration, ISBN, Library of Congress, copyright: 7.Book launches, book reviews, blog tours and press releases: 7:.Print on demand and book distribution: 5.I looked over about 60 recent unsolicited queries from my inbox.
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How to tell the difference? Queries from the Inbox Some of these decisions are trivial, others are critical. I mean, why would a urologist or a mechanical engineer know anything about book publishing? I certainly don’t know anything about urology or engineering, I can assure you.īut the process of creating books-the way they are planned, designed, constructed, perfected, produced, marketed and sold-is complicated, requiring a lot of big and little decisions along the way. I think it’s pretty obvious why people have questions about self-publishing.
One of the peculiarities of self-publishing is that people who decide to publish their own books are almost always amateur publishers. Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about these questions, and how the same questions seem to repeat over and over again. Some days I think my job is answering emails except that it doesn’t pay very well. I get a lot of questions from writers and self-publishers in my inbox.
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