In the book, Writing In InDesign, we are concerned
about book publishing so several of the options are predetermined.
Not exact matches
He said in the interview that he is
so determined to get his side of the story out that he is writing a
book about what happened at the investment bank although he does not yet have a
publishing contract.
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.
As you may or may not know, I started a
publishing company almost two years ago, and as part of the process of
publishing and marketing
books, I wanted to create a «
Book Launch» strategy so that the authors whose books we publish could get a good start on helping people learn about their b
Book Launch» strategy
so that the authors whose
books we
publish could get a good start on helping people learn
about their
bookbook.
If / when an author in the group becomes
published, he / she promises to help other members in the group also get
published, and in return, they promise to write
about and review the author's
book so they can sell more copies.
So it was with great excitement when I learned that one of my favorite authors who writes
about the church, was
publishing a
book about Jesus.
Perhaps that's one of the reasons why I loved Rob Bell's
book, What We Talk
About When We Talk
About God — the unabashed science of wonder particularly in quantum physics that he connects to the complexity and even ambiguity of God is
so rare in non-academic religious
publishing or thought.
This free ebook contains everything I have learned
so far
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I had received the
book about a week or
so before it was
published, read it twice, and had prepared a somewhat lengthy review (not compared to Kevin DeYoung's reviewum opus).
Look, along with teaching and writing
about Scripture and theology, I also design websites and
publish books for other authors, and I get paid a little bit of money to do
so.
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.
She got
so many request to purchase just the
book, that she decided to
publish the
book and make it available seperately for all the parents who have the tools, but need to learn more
about the method.
De Bois - who has just
published a
book about his times as an MP - confirms it to be
so:
For Major, cricket is a passion and one
about which he wrote
so eloquently in his fine
book More Than A Game
published in 2007.
In 1997, a Transgender male author
published a series of graphic autobiographical
books about his sexual and physical abuse... or
so everyone thought!
on a subject of directors that need another shot: john mctiernan, hopefully when he gets out from prison, will be able to do another movie... btw verhoeven got fed up in states
so he went back to holland, he wrote and
published a
book about jesus and i think he would love to make a movie
about it, but do nt think that any studio would put money in it...
ASCD
published it, and they made it a member
book, and
so it got sent out to
about 90,000 people.
The
publishing company offered a substantial discount for pre-summer sales,
so about 200 students bought their
books at school before summer vacation.
So it turns out that Robert Pondiscio is working on a
book about Success Academy, slated to be
published by Penguin Random House.
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As a side note, this
book is MOST LIKELY to fit his data calculations, because it's been out for a long time; it's self -
published and has been out long enough that there are essentially zero print sales; I haven't been trying to promote it much, mostly because I don't control the first two
books in the series, and
so there are very few big jumps; and I had a new release
about two months ago,
so the
book in January is at
about the «average» rank in its release - to - release lifecycle.
I recently
published a
book which had quite a number if subheadings within each chapter, an average of
about one per page,
so some pages had more than one subheading.
I have been writing this column since 2003
so I went back and compiled a collections of my articles on self -
publishing and combined them into a book titled, Ask Ron — The Plain Truth About Self - P
publishing and combined them into a
book titled, Ask Ron — The Plain Truth
About Self -
PublishingPublishing.
This is a site
about publishing, and
so I'm limiting my attention to mobile's impact on
publishing, mainly on
book publishing.
But we've seen self -
published authors dominate us in gross sales,
so we know it's
about the writer and not the
book.
«I give my boss (who owns a small editing company) a weekly update of all the hot topics in
book publishing news, and I get
so tired of reading
about people recommending self -
publishing as essentially another get - rich - quick scheme.
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.
She also dove a bit more into this story
about how she went from being a physical therapist to being a speaker and an author with over 30
books published,
so listen to the interview for more details.
We agree that self -
publishing (1) can be a means of getting your words in print, (2) it will let you can control your tome's contents and design, (3) if you can market well, by self -
publishing you can sidestep the big - house foot - dragging, (4) when your
book is complementary to your greater purpose of displaying your expertise (as, for example, using your
book to secure related speaking engagements), or (5) when self -
publishing is the best (and perhaps only) way to get your words and ideas past the older, established houses
so potential readers and buyers have a chance to see and decide
about the merits of your independent offering.
After the jump, more on my impressions of the
book so far (no real spoilers or plot details beyond those given in the
published summary, but if you don't want to know anything
about this one before you buy, stop here).
Donna once told me the reason her
books take
so long to write (her last one, The Little Friend, was
published 12 years ago) is that they are
about as long as three regular novels.
So the next time you get the vibe from someone that your self -
published book is somehow less than a major accomplishment, think
about these authors.
In this episode, Giving Birth to Dreams, I share why I'm
so passionate
about helping others write,
publish, and marketing their
books.
«I had talked
about my children's
books for
so long and to
so many people that I felt I'd better do something
about getting
published or take the chance of being put into the category of «all talk and no action.»
Every six months or
so a story breaks in the
publishing media
about the launch of a «Netflix of
Books.»
For me, I think distribution and sales would be too difficult, particularly considering I want to reach the schools market, and I already know how they work, which is hard for me to access (while not actually «self -
publishing» before I was responsible for placing a
book about how to become a policewoman in Australia into educational outlets at secondary and tertiary levels and it was not only hard work but incredibly time and money consuming too,
so if someone can do that side for me at a reasonable cost, I'd always prefer it.)
While I applaud your willingness to embrace self -
publishing, what I would say
about publishers and agents is two things: the first is that they act as guardians of good taste in a way, helping get important (and not -
so - important)
books out there, and secondly, they are crucial as editors.
And I've found it
so true what you guys are saying
about gaps in traditionally
published books.
You don't have to worry
about getting lost or something slipping through the cracks — we keep track of all the details for you
so you don't need to know everything
about how to self -
publish a
book.
So we interrupt those boring posts
about books and
publishing and pricing and stuff to bring you what really matters....
However, we know they're elitists from things they've said in the past
about self -
published books being of lesser quality compared to trad pub
books (how ironic that now trad pub authors are complaining more
about their
books having
so many typos and problems when printed).
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.
(cont'd)- I'm giving away hundreds of listings on the Vault, and as a result of doing
so, won't see one thin dime of income on the site until October or later - Given all the time and money I've already sunk into developing the site, I don't even expect to earn back my upfront investment until sometime next year - I'm already personally reaching out to publishers on behalf of authors who are listed in the Vault, on my own time and my own long distance bill, despite the fact that I don't stand to earn
so much as a finder's fee if any of those contacts result in an offer - I make my The IndieAuthor Guide available for free on my author site and blog - I built Publetariat, a free resource for self - pubbing authors and small imprints, by myself, and paid for its registration, software and hosting out of my own pocket - I shoulder all the ongoing expense and the lion's share of administration for the Publetariat site, which since its launch on 2/11 of this year, has only earned $ 36 in ad revenue; the site never has, and likely never will, earn its keep in ad revenue, but I keep it going because I know it's a valuable resource for authors and publishers - I've given away far more copies of my novels than I've sold, because I'm a pushover for anyone who emails me to say s / he can't afford to buy them - I paid my own travel expenses to speak at this year's O'Reilly Tools of Change conference, nearly $ 1000, just to be part of the Rise of Ebooks panel and raise awareness
about self -
published authors who are strategically leveraging ebooks - I judge in self -
published book competitions, and I read the * entire *
book in every case, despite the fact that the honorarium has never been more than $ 12 per
book — a figure that works out to less than $.50 per hour of my time spent reading and commenting In spite of all this, you still come here and elsewhere to insinuate I'm greedy and only out to take advantage of my fellow authors.
But I'd
so much like to catch authors before it's too late to get a
book publicist really excited
about a project: before a major
book publishing house has given up on promoting the
book (or lost interest in selling the
book) or before an author has committed to working with a print - on - demand company whose imprint would make a
book about 95 % more difficult to properly promote than it has to be.
So sorry to miss your talk at University of Winchester on Tuesday — knew there was a talk
about self -
publishing going on but had no idea you were giving it (crawl, crawl, but I do follow your blog, your tweets and have your great
book on self -
publishing!)
So the next time you pick up a
book, whether it's by me, a self -
published author, or a big name, think
about leaving a review — it really does matter!
So authors contact me and say «I'm curious
about what it would take to launch a
book promotion campaign for my self -
published book» too late for me to steer them toward the most information they could find: they haven't really self -
published at all.
But with
so many options available today (self -
publishing, ebooks, traditional
publishing, print - on - demand, etc.), if you want to
publish a
book, then you have a lot to think
about!
January 2010 I started blogging and by the end of 2012,
so we are talking a good couple of years of blogging here, I built a speaking platform for myself, I had started podcasting, I was blogging a couple times a week, good community of people and then boom, the
book offer comes in from a publisher in the U.S. and I didn't go with that initial offer but it made me think very seriously
about going back to that goal of someday writing a
book and
so I was introduced to a literary agent and I obviously went the traditional
publishing route with Virtual Freedom but there's nothing wrong with the self
publishing route at all.