This week I’m tackling the whole issue of print on demand distribution and how it works. This is one of the most common questions I get asked, and I’ve been wanting to lay this out in a step by step way. Unlike last week’s video, this is more of a...
It happened again today. In fact—and I know you’ll doubt me but it’s absolutely true—it happened twice in one day. Two different stories with the same sad end. In the first one, the author had gone to Outskirts Press, a subsidy publisher. She...
Did you ever wish that you did an interview, and in the interview you got to ask exactly the questions you most wanted to talk about? Well, here’s a fun tip on how to do just that. As part of my media kit for the ongoing book launch of A Self-Publisher’s...
Good news: I was invited to speak to a group of people involved with self-publishing that meets at the Mechanic’s Institute Library on Post Street in downtown San Francisco. I was happy to accept and took the opportunity to meet up with my friend Paula...
I’m finding in talking to new self-publishers that many people don’t quite get how the discounting works in different parts of the book distribution system. This is vital to understand because it affects whether your publishing company will make a profit...
