Publishing
Should You Self-Publish Your Book With CreateSpace?
CreateSpace is part of the ever growing Amazon umbrella of companies. Unlike Xlibris or iUniverse or AuthorHouse, if you simply want to have your book self-published under the ISBN of CreateSpace, or simply don’t care to use the services they…
Where Is The Best Place to Promote Your Book?
Not Twitter. Not Facebook. Not on Google Plus. Not with family or friends. No, these aren’t places you should (overly) promote your book on. These are places, and people, you can have comments and chats with about you and…
15 Reader Questions Answered
This month, on Living a Life of Writing, we opened our doors for reader questions about publishing, self-publishing, numbers, writing and just generally what it is like to be a writer. Most of these questions have to do with “numbers”…
Don’t Doubt Others When It Comes to Publishing a Cover
I was working with my co-author and now that the books have been sent to the editors, there was more work which needed to be done. It’s not hard to write a book but it’s a lot harder to decide…
One Book = More Risk?
We’ve all heard a comment to the effect of “wow, you’ve published a book? When will the next one be out?” Sounds like they have a lot of confidence in your work, but it is natural that there needs to…
Is It Risky Self-Publishing?
While I was busy pounding away at my keyboard in the hopes my work will be done on time, a friend of mine called me. We have spent years being the type of people who like to ask questions and…
Baby Everything is All Write?
I want to have a book published very soon. Whenever I mention that I have published a book, most people have that reply: oh okay. They aren’t exactly excited, and maybe it is because I open my big mouth too…
Ten Publishing Questions You Need to Answer
Publishing is “simple”. It’s where someone (you might be the one to do this) hits a “print” button or a publish button, and the result is either a physical book or a paperback book. Now that this is settled, let’s…
