I don’t know what your goals are or what your publication status is. I don’t know if you are primarily a speaker who has a book or if you are (or wish to be) a full-time writer.
Personally, I’m in the last category. At least, in the wish-to-be part.
Peter Bowerman, author of The Well-Fed Writer and The Well-Fed Writer: Back for Seconds, has a new addition to the Well-Fed series: The Well-Fed Self-Publisher.
Publisher rejection letters piling up? Publish it yourself and keep control of the process, the timetable, the rights, AND most of the money! For a free report on self-publishing, visit www.wellfedsp.com, the home of the 2006 release, The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living. Author Peter Bowerman self-published the award-winning Well-Fed Writer titles (on the lucrative field of freelance commercial writing), generating a full-time living for over five years. (www.wellfedwriter.com).
This book has definitely given me food for thought. (Ha! Food – well-fed…nevermind.) I’m still working on Creative TIPs, including The Idea Pocket, Knows, etc. My first thought, as it is with any large project, was to go the traditional publishing route.
However, on reading The Well-Fed Self-Publisher, I’m seeing that this could work for me. At the moment, I plan to finish what I’m working on and weigh my options (traditional, POD, and self-publishing). At that point, I will decide which way to go.
Peter Bowerman might be here tomorrow, so feel free to leave any comments/questions you have.
If you would like to buy a copy of The Well-Fed Self-Publisher, click the image below.
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Self-publishing is something I am very seriously considering. So many of them out there though. Caution and lots of research before selecting one.
Great post.
Steve
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Sounds like a great book. I think every writer needs to choose their own publication path. I look forward to hearing more about the author and this book.
Hello everybody,
Delighted to be here on Jen’s Organized Writer. Hope to generate a lively discussion on the subject of self-publishing. The subject is a hot one these days as more and more authors are starting to realize, 1) how hard it is to land a publisher, 2) how much easier the Internet has made the process of self-publishing, 3) how lame the conventional publishing model actually is in most cases: anemic royalties, 18-24 months to publication, loss of creative control, and loss of book rights.
And even after giving up all that, authors who HAVE been given the keys to “The Publishing Kingdom” then discover, to their dismay, how much of their own book marketing they have to do themselves – and usually for a buck a book or less!
With that paradigm, many are understandably saying, hey, if I’m going to have to do most of the work myself anyway, I might as well be making most of the money!
I wish you all the best on your own self-publishing journeys. Know that there are plenty of tools out there (including a few of my own at http://www.wellfedsp.com).
Peter
P.S. Jen, FYI, you wrote above, “If you would like to buy a copy of The Well-Fed Self-Publisher, click the image below.” The book image itself is NOT a hot link (though the “click the image below” is)…
Steve, it is definitely something I would look very carefully at. *s* I have some RL friends who have gone the SP route. While they have a good end product, it doesn’t look like they’ve done much to promote it. That’s a large investment to just let it sit in boxes gathering dust.
Michele, I have to agree. Once upon a time, I would have completely looked down on self-pubbed books, but that has definitely changed. Lately, I’ve seen some SP books that look better and are better edited than some from big publishers that I’ve bought. (Sorry, not naming names, new-to-me authors.)
Peter, thank you for stopping by. I didn’t ralize the link didn’t expand to include the image. It was supposed to.
(Edit: I edited the post so the image is now clickable.)