To start off, I want to look at one of the most common myths I have encountered in my self -
publishing experience so far — that somehow, the quality of self - published works is «inferior» to their published counterparts.
For older children, I talk about my writing and
publishing experiences so far, and in return the children ask me brilliant questions about what it's like being an author and creating the Bugglepuffs.
Not exact matches
First
published in 1995, Daniel Goleman, the patriarch of EQ, offers extensive research and his own personal
experience in examining why EQ is
so important to our success and happiness.
Vassula just
published a book outlining her
experiences with faith called «Heaven is Real, but
so is Hell.
I have learned quite a bit about
publishing books over the last 10 years or
so, and wanted to make some of my
experience available to others
so that they also could get their books
published.
So you can imagine my delight when I learned that Jason has written a book about his
experience with religious doubt, which will be
published by Zondervan in the summer of 2010.
The lecturer, W.H. van de Pol, later
published a book with the same title in which he sought «an answer to the question of why it is that conventional Christianity has become
so undermined that we are
experiencing its collapse».2
Originally
published on LiverpoolScout.com Luis Suárez has
experienced a remarkable purple patch
so far this season scoring 10 goals from a mere 12 games in the Premier League.
What I wasn't quite prepared for after Feeding Eden was
published was that
so many parents would reach out to tell me that they felt like they were reading the story of their allergic family and their parenting
experiences.
My thoughts have turned once again to the
experience of breastfeeding a toddler,
so I thought I would re-run this post first
published August 30, 2010.
Julee is an established
published writer with plenty of
experience under her belt,
so you know she can tell a good story.
The committee, chaired by the Labour MP Frank Field, said it was «
so impressed and moved» by the 4,000 - plus individual submissions it received after asking for people's
experiences of the system — a record number for a select committee inquiry — that it decided to
publish a separate report highlighting them.
The study,
published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence, found that in the context of legalization, many marijuana users will try new marijuana products and use edibles, and that doing
so markedly increases the odds of
experiencing an unexpected high.
That's why we decided to write and
publish the exclusive e-Book, The Coconut Oil Secret: Nature's # 1 Best Healing Superfood -
so you too could separate the truth from the lies and
experience the world of health that coconut oil offers!
So it's no surprise that we often
experience brain fog during a time of life when estrogen levels wax and wane: A study
published in the journal Neurology found that 60 % George Doyle / Getty of women going through perimenopause, when estrogen levels are sputtering out, reported decreased memory.
I stumbled across this post soon after it was first
published several years ago, and I was
so pleased to read it because it chimed with my
experiences and concerns.
Carol (née The Price of Salt) is the most autobiographical of Patricia Highsmith's novels, dealing
so frankly with her own lesbian
experiences that she originally had it
published under a pseudonym.
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So, there's a real emphasis for us on experimenting thoughtfully, capturing our observations of kids and their
experiences and then
publishing those - acting as teacher researchers and having permission, not only permission but encouragement, to do that, that it's part of the mission of the school.
Those of us without the time or inclination to relive high school can choose from a small range of books
published over the past several years by noneducators (usually journalists) who, provoked by events at Columbine, piqued by their own children's high - school
experience, or simply in need of a job, took a semester or a year off to revisit the scene of
so much youthful Sturm und Drang.
I'll be
publishing a detailed blog on my BETT
experience following the show,
so please sign... Continue reading →
Victoria, one of the best resources I know for aspiring writers is Laura Resnick's writer resource page (http://www.lauraresnick.com) My
experience is in romance
publishing,
so I really can't speak to the commercial marketability of your book (s) but I'd recommend steering clear of any «self publisher» who asks for money.
Balboa Press authors who'd like to share a 350 - 600 word
experience related to the self -
publishing of their books are invited to do
so through the submission form on the Guidelines page.
< And in our preparatory column to last week's Issues on the Ether column for our #EtherIssue live discussion, Bringing Tools of the Trade to Self -
Publishing, we askwed our readers to talk with us about what tools entrepreneurial authors need most; to what degree those tools can be as much of a burden as a help if they slow down writers with steep learning curves; how well the commercial world seems to be responding
so far to the needs of entrepreneurial authors; and what kind of results they're seeing from their own
experiences and experiments with new tools.
The technology is
so awesome that holding a self -
published book in hand is a terrific
experience.
I have limited
experience from others as it pertains to my writing since I only have one
published book (
so far).
If you have a similar inspiring story, or message, you want to write about and share, you'll want to attend my interview with Dina next week,
so you can profit from her indie -
publishing and book marketing
experiences.
So I thought I'd follow suit and share my
experience of the
publishing world, with figures I'm happy to reveal, and then you'll see some of the reasons why, when it came to
publishing my novels, I chose the indie route.
He ranted on by saying, «These books come out and are met with a deathly silence,
so the principle
experience of self -
publishing is one of disappointment.
Balboa Press authors who'd like to share a 350 - 600 word
experience related to the self -
publishing of their books are invited to do
so by the submission form on the Guidelines page.
«At the same time, both authors who self -
publish and firms of all sizes who produce digital content recognize the need for maintaining high quality throughout the
publishing process, and thus are choosing to seek out
experienced vendors
so they don't have to go it alone.»
I spent 40 + years dreaming of holding a traditionally
published book I wrote in my hands,
so the emotional payoff I'll
experience in just a few weeks is enormous.
But, yes, I am a lot more discerning now about self -
published books, not because of bias, but because I've had
so many bad
experiences with them.
All of us at Outskirts Press work hard to make sure all our authors have wonderful
experiences (and we get it right 99 % of the time),
so it's always gratifying to receive emails like this from one of our recently -
published authors (I recevied this roughly around Easter).
Balboa Press authors who'd like to share a 350 - 600 word
experience related to the self -
publishing of their books are invited to do
so by emailing
[email protected].
Your book is unique,
so we tailor your
publishing experience around your goals and your budget.
So far, I've enjoyed my
experience with self -
publishing on Amazon.
Jeff & Shirley Lawrence
published their book, Hollywood Be Thy Name in 2006 with Outskirts Press, and, like most of our authors, enjoyed the
experience so much they gave us a glowing review:
So what's it like having a book commercially published after so much self - publishing experienc
So what's it like having a book commercially
published after
so much self - publishing experienc
so much self -
publishing experience?
Balboa Press authors who'd like to share a 350 - 600 word
experience related to the self -
publishing of their books, are invited to do
so by sending a message through our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/BalboaPress, by tweeting us at @BalboaPress, or by emailing blog @ balboapress.com.
I've gone the traditional
publishing route with my debut UF, and have loved the
experience so far.
Experienced authors will not sign a contract with a non-compete clause, and publishers aren't going to promise not to
publish books that compete directly with the author's,
so it's just a bad deal.
I understand why you'd be wary to sign with another publisher because of your
experience, but there are
so many others out there who have had amazing
experiences with their small publishers that it's a shame if you discourage everyone from signing with a publisher and only going the self -
publishing route.
Balboa Press authors who'd like to share a 350 - 600 word
experience related to the self -
publishing of their books, are invited to do
so by sending a message through our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/BalboaPress, by tweeting us @BalboaPress, or by emailing dghosh @ balboapress.com.
More than 300
publishing people from more than 50 countries have gained
so far from this
experience.
BookWorks authors are encouraged to share their
experiences in self -
publishing in our new Notes from the Field series,
so send us your ideas at
[email protected].
BookLife is owned and operated by Publishers Weekly,
so the content on the site is backed up by PW's
experience and credibility in the world of
publishing.
So sadly you I fear are one of those editors who are self - appointed with no actual real world
experience with creative writing or the arts, just the cash to start a
publishing business.
Meanwhile, authors who self -
publish are honing both their writing and marketing skills on a smaller stage,
so if and when they're picked up by a publisher, they have the proper
experience to reach out to the broader audience that the publisher will expose them to.
Thanks
so much for sharing your self
publishing experience and knowledge with us!
As a control freak, self -
publishing has been a good
experience so far.