When I first started researching the area of Self Publishing about three years ago, I was struck by the multitude of terms used both writers and publishers to define their own business. We can easily review many self publishing companies and rattle off terms like Vanity Publishing, Subsidy Publishing, POD (Print-on-demand) Publishing, Partnership Publishing and…
Self-Publishing Reasons To Be Cheerful – Part 1
There are many reasons why an author starts to contemplate travelling the long and winding road to self-publishing. Like many paths we undertake in life – we sometimes find ourselves on a path we never originally planned to travel upon. When this happens, we find out that we don’t always have the sufficient roadmap to…
Self-Publishing Reasons To Be Cheerful – Part 2
There are many variables and choices along the self-publishing road, whether an author decides to use author solutions companies like AuthorHouse, iUniverse, Infinity, Xlibris, Mill City Press or the many others using POD (print on demand) technology. Some publishing overlords will snipe from the hedgerow on our road and argue and catcall to us that…
Self-Publishing Reasons To Be Cheerful – Part 3 or (Sheila, Take A Bow)
A comment from Sheila851 was left on yesterdays Self-Publishing Reasons To Be Cheerful – Part 2 and it was extremely thought provoking and I think very much encapsulates how self published authors feel about ‘standard’ publishing and why so many are more than cheerful to pursue self-publishing despite its stigmas and challenges for authors. Here is Sheila’s…
Adventures in Self-Publishing with Cedric Cross
I’ll start by saying that anticipating a response on the edits to your novel is torture. Xlibris does a great job by updating me on my novel and informing me where the process of the book is at, but waiting on them to edit just doesn’t do well for your sleep habits. Writing a novel…
Lulu: You Wanna Piece of Me?
DIY self-publishing service provider Lulu has set in motion a process which could see the company offering public shares on the Canadian stock market as early as next month. Last Friday Lulu filed a preliminary prospectus with the regulatory authorities in Canada. The first moves that may see shares in Lulu sold on the stock…
Guest Post: Adventures in Self-Publishing with Cedric Cross
I’m Cedric Cross here at POD, Self Publishing & Independent Publishing and I’d like to explain a little how the process of self-publishing has worked for me. But first, I’d like to explain a little about myself and my novel. Enjoy! I first began writing at age twelve about some boys and their journey through life after…
Pulling Your Hair Out With Formatting?
If you are having trouble with formatting your book for DIY self-publishing sites like Lulu and CreateSpace, and have pulled out most of the hairs on your head, then click over to Cindy Bauer’s excellent step-by-step guide to formatting in MS Word on Visual Arts Junction. Some sites will allow you to load up your…
Self-Publishing For Kids From Tikatok
Last year retailer Barnes & Noble bought Tikatok with the intention of providing a POD (print on demand) self-publishing platform for young children. The new venture is in partnership with Common Sense Media (commonsense.org), a leading nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving families’ experiences with media and entertainment. The partnership is intended to help Barnes…
e-books: Kassia Krozser on Publishing Perspectives
Kassia Krozser has written an article today over on Publishing Perspectives about the development of e-books and that it’s time for us to learn to walk before we try to run. She argues publishers and authors have yet to perfect the presentation and potential of the e-book in a envoirnment where we are already talking…