Can I Make Money Self-Publishing My Book?
Most writers want to publish their books and want to make money with their books. After all, it is not like you want to do all of that work and then have a book that does not sell well, or…
Why You Should Self-Publish
We writers are funny creatures. I am not against self-publishing. In fact I believe that for many books, self-publishing is a great idea. I say this with one caveat: editors are a must. I think we writers like to think…
If You Publish a Book How Many Books Need To Be Sold?
This is a simple question for most people, but it’s also a hard question to answer for some: Once you have a book published – your own book – how many books do you need to sell: How many for…
How Much Would You Pay for A Book?
I worked with a number of people while I published my book. It is not long, and it is a history book. To be clear it is a non-fiction book. The biggest question we asked was how much would you…
Does Publishing a Book Mean Money?
Now admit it we would all like to have a bit more money after we publish our work somewhere. In fact if we are honest we would like a lot of money. But: does publishing a book mean money? In…
Why Some Writers Write– and Some Publish
I think at this point I want to make a bit of a definition, between a writer, and a writer. I write a lot about writing and publishing but there is something very different about someone who writes and someone…
Is There A Reason to Complain About AuthorHouse or Any Vanity Press?
So, you want to self-publish your book, and you really don’t have time to go and do a lot of research. You figure all you will need to do is to work with a bit of information and then you will…
What Would You Say Is Self-Publishing?
There is a debate within my group of writing friends as to what exactly self-publishing is “really.” For the most part we have decided that we would use the standard working definition of self-publishing as “anything done by the writer,…
