Like so many other struggling independent authors, I’ve spent far more money than I care to admit on a vanity publisher. Or rather, a subsidy publisher, which is a more accurate term in this day and age where self-publishing is gaining credibility. But whatever the label, whether subsidy or vanity, there is still a big …
One of the many joys of independent publishing is having the freedom to make choices. The curse is having so many options, and having to make a decision between them. Right now I’m trying to decide between Create Space and Ingram Spark for my client’s memoir. I’ve used Create Space before (for my book Read …
The biggest problem for self-published authors is getting people to hear about their books. In this world where over 10 million titles are published each year, we as authors have an increasingly difficult time getting anyone’s attention for our books. The internet, of course, offers nearly unlimited options for finding readers. With all the …
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My experience with formatting for CreateSpace, Smashwords, and Kindle Direct Publishing While it sounds like a simple matter, formatting books can become a bad dream. What turns the whole exercise into a nightmare is the knowledge that if your book isn’t formatted well, it can be turn readers off and cost you sales. Earlier this …
In the interests of supporting my fellow independent authors, I’ve been reading a lot of self-published novels. Some have been wonderful, others have been dreadful. Then there are those in the middle, that are great stories that somehow fall apart in the execution. These are the ones that bother me the most. The authors were …
I’ve been working on formatting my second book for publication, and got completely stalled out. For the life of me I couldn’t make my headers and page numbers behave, no matter how many times I read the instructions provided by CreateSpace or the help in Microsoft Word. So I looked for some other resources and …