So just what can small publishers do for self-publishing children’s authors? While they offer many benefits that larger services can’t, the first benefit is handholding.
Category: self-publishing
Self-Publishing and Book Returns
If you’re self-publishing your book, you’ll need to think about book returns. Should you, or shouldn’t you?
Self-Publishing: ISBNs, Amazon, and IngramSpark
Amazon is having a problem recognizing the new 979 ISBNs. This is causing problems for authors.
Self-Publishing: Scams, Scams, and More Scams
There are a number of scams going around targeting self-publishing authors.
Self-Publishing a Book – Steps to Upload Your Book for Publishing
You have your book’s print-ready file in hand. Now it’s time to upload it to a retailer or aggregator for distribution and sales. But, how do you go about doing this?
Three Critical Components for Publishing Ebooks
Contributed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, author of the multi award-winning HowToDoItFrugally Series of books for writers. A website owner was asked what the “three most important components are for publishing a professionally produced e-book” and he referred the question to me. As long as I was figuring out the answer to this all-important question, I figured…
Your Self-Published Book and the ISBN
Being a children’s ghostwriter, I get a lot of clients who self-publish. Many of them use companies that will do the work for them, actually format and publish and distribute the book, like Amazon does. If you self-publish a physical book or ebook and intend to sell it online, in bookstores, or pretty much anywhere…
A Writer’s Number One Job
Writers have to do a lot to create a good story, but the number one thing is to create a connection. You must make the reader care. Although it’s the most important element of your job, lots of writers just don’t get it right. According to Mary Kole of KidLit, “Whether they name emotions outright,…
Barnes and Noble Press – Another Self-Publishing Option
I usually only post here once a week, but this is interesting news. There’s now a Barnes & Noble Press (a self-publishing suite). I guess it’s their take on Amazon’s KDP. When I first heard about it, I was thrilled, especially since Createspace is getting rid of their author services. But, I’m not quite sure…
Publishing Your Book the Hybrid Way
As with everything, the publishing industry has changed. With the difficulty in getting a traditional contract through queries and proposals and the hands-on learning and doing of ‘real’ self-publishing, there is a third option: Hybrid publishing. So, what exactly is hybrid publishing? According to Ingram Spark, “Hybrid publishing combines some elements of traditional publishing with…