Writer's Guide SELF- PUBLISHING EXPLAINED: Writer's Ultimate Resource

Writer's Guide SELF- PUBLISHING: EXPLAINED The entire book publishing revolution has exponentially expanded the self-publishing author’s options, especially in the last three years. There are many, many companies offering a wide variety of services for anyone wanting to produce and sell a book or e-book. It is something of a brave new publishing world and potentially quite confusing for the uninitiated. To gain a perspective on all this is to consider that all these changes in the publishing industry have had dramatic impacts on the efficiencies of bringing the written word in front of an international audience with the new technologies and devices. Companies in the traditional book and e-book domains rarely cover all of the phases of the process but instead tend to focus on one or another segment of the pipeline. The trick is to understand the tools and opportunities that are available to you as a writer, to move your project from just an idea to a published reality: a finished self-published book generating multiple unit sales across a variety of distribution and marketing platforms. Writer's Guide SELF-PUBLISHING EXPLAINED What you will learn from this guide and how to apply the knowledge: This book is about self-publishing your book and e-book. It will tell you in simple terms what kinds of steps you need to take and will explain the various publishing platforms that are available to you. This book is “Action Centric” and contains no tech jargons, no fluffy content. It outlines what is available in the publishing market and how the digital frontier has changed dramatically in recent years. This book is focused towards getting you the information so you can take action to self-publish your own book from start to finish. How this book is organized: This book is organized by highlighting and explaining the various pros and cons of many aspects of the self-publishing industry as it relates to books and e-books. In effect, it unlocks the “treasure chest” to successful book and e-book publishing if you're willing to invest some time and do some of the steps yourself. A word about objectives: This book provides information to both novice and advanced writers on how to proceed with self-publishing their own books and e-books. It also provides a step-by-step method for moving forward from ideas to fully written, illustrated and published works. What will you have at the end of this book? You have the tools, techniques and 'how-to' information to get your book published and done (PAD) and generating sales all over the world immediately!