Practical Advice to Help Self-Publishers Build Better Books
From the monthly archives:
Many smart self-publishers already own the “bible” of the business, Dan Poynter’s Self-Publishing Manual. But another iconic resource is available to self-publishers who decide to take on the design and production of their own books.
Of course, the book I’m referring to is Pete Masterson’s Book Design and Production: A Guide for Authors and Publishers (ISBN [...]
A few years ago we took a family trip to Australia. It was a great adventure but what impressed me at the time was how long it took to get ready for the trip.
Passports, itineraries, housing arrangements, plans to take care of our house, dogs and cat while we were gone. Since we both [...]
When an author decides to publish their own book, there are many questions to be answered. It’s the first of these questions about self-publishing I want to address in this article, and that has to do with starting a publishing company.
Some authors will decide to simply print copies of their book for their own use, [...]
On the day before Christmas I headed over to the nearest bookstore for a couple of gifts. The nearest bookstore happens to be a Border’s, although it wasn’t always so. When we moved to San Rafael there were at least 4 bookstores downtown, maybe 9 altogether, which always seemed like a lot of bookstores for [...]
Digital printing has given rise to the print-on-demand distribution model that’s become so popular with self-publishers. Lightning Source, Inc. (LSI) is the principle provider of print-on-demand distribution, and the one I personally work with, and often recommend to my clients who are intending to become competitive self-publishers.
Like anyone else, I had to work out the [...]
Jill and I were sitting around talking about friends and people we knew. I was trying to explain how the system of personality types we were studying was actually complex enough to explain all the differences we were observing in our friends.
At one point Jill said to me, “How are people like me—new to this [...]
