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Authors Can Learn...
(This is a quick view of the AUTHOR HELP
and GO FOR THE GOLD drop-down menus.)

♦ First Things First 
♦ Why You Need Your Own ISBN
♦ About Book Editing
♦ How To Copyright A Book
♦ How To Find A Publisher
♦ About Book Marketing
♦ Whether You Need A Web Site
♦ Author Resource Links
♦ Informative Publishing Tips
♦ Link To Buy A Single ISBN
♦ Link To Buy Ten ISBNs

HOW TO GO FOR THE GOLD:
♦ How To Find A Literary Agent
♦ You May Need A Book Proposal
♦ See Sample Book Proposals
♦ See Sample Query Letters
♦ You May Need A Distributor
♦ About Children's Books
♦ About Publishing Poetry

Updated July 26, 2010

How To Self-Publish

This is not rocket science. Ready?

1. Buy your own ISBN.

2. Get your manuscript professionally edited.

3. Get your cover professionally designed front and back.

4. Get your content (book interior) professionally layed 
    out. Old-timers call it typesetting.

5. Get it printed for less than online publishers charge  
    (using the same printer).

6. Get your title listed with Ingram and Bowker Books In
    Print.

7. Get 'em delivered to your door and sell 'em.

8. What will the cost be for a 150 page, 5½ x 8½ book? 
    'Bout $2500 for 300-400 books. Much more than that 
    means you paid more than necessary ($3000 or more if
    you required a more extensive edit). Of course, you
    will also pay more if your book has a larger page count.

There is, obviously, a little more to it than that—But not much. And you can get all this done without signing a contract. You just order and pay for each service as you go along. I can tell you the few publishers who will let you do just that. Short list on Author Rescource Links page.

♦ Get familiar with Vanity Press Warning Signs.


Your are on the How To Self-Publish page.

Updated May 13, 2010