All Blog Posts Tagged 'self-publishing' (7)

In my previous posts, I've expressed how challenging writing can be. But, that's only half the battle. The real difficulty begins when you go to publish.



Years ago, a writer could only publish their manuscripts through a traditional publisher, but with the 21st century comes self-publishing. A writer no longer needs to beg an agent to take a look at their manuscript. The writer is their own publisher...sounds great! Right? Well it depends.



Self-publishing and…

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It's the end of summer here in Auckland. The historical fiction project is finished (http://goo.gl/zXdRQK) and I'm at a loose end. I've never enjoyed marketing, so I'm putting it off.

I know, I know, procrastination is not a good look in an author, but who else actually LOATHES the marketing aspect of self-publishing? The freedom of being able to publish via Kindle and Smashwords etc is wonderful, but the pay-off is the ongoing slog to rally…

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Calling all Kids….

Get your book published! Free!

DLite is offering all kids (elementary, middle or high-school grades) free eBook publishing. We will design a cover, layout your text for eBook publishing and…

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DLite Press is offering free eBook publishing - totally FREE! This offer includes cover design and book formatting. Just send us your manuscript. We will post it to our site allowing friends and family to view, or best of all, buy your book. Check us out at http://www.dlitepress.com

Here is a scenario with many POD publishers.

Your upfront fee to publish could be as low as $14! However, PODs rarely offer the author free copies of their book. Also, your book (as an electronic file) remains with the

publisher. POD means print-on-demand. The publisher gets to keep a file of your

book and prints the books as needed. It is a fast and easy method…

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Michigan winters can be brutal. Not because of low temps, snow, etc. That's ordinary. It's the endless cloudy days when sunshine is nothing but a vicious rumor. But winter is over - if winter is ever really over here in March!



I'll take this, though: 65 degrees today, sunshine, people actually smiling!



For my own reading, I'm just finishing Butler's THE WAY OF ALL FLESH. A classic, certainly, and written within and for a very different sensibility. But intriguing… Continue

Hi all, I just wanted to introduce myself. I am the Membership Director for the Association of Independent Authors. We are a non-profit organization focussed solely on independent (self-published) authors. Every resource within our community responds directly to issues faced by independent authors.…

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