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My Own Self-Publishing Journey — Part Three

12/27/2022 by Debbi

Photo by LOGAN WEAVER | @LGNWVR on Unsplash

This is actually the closest thing I have to a holiday/end-of-the-year message for you all.

I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, unless you happen to want to change when a new year comes. So change, already. Right? 🙂

Hi. Well, I was going to read you more out of my journals, but I seem to have misplaced them in the mess in my office. So I’m just going to tell you what happened in 2011, I think it was end of 2011.

I started to notice things that Amazon was doing that really disturbed me in the sense that Bezos was buying up all these companies.

My Own Self-Publishing Journey – Part One

12/06/2022 by Debbi

Hey, you know something? I’m just gonna read from my journals a little bit. I don’t know if I’ve done this one already. It’s called “How I Pictured It.” Well, that’s the title I put at the top.

The ‘No B.S. Guide’ to Self-Publishing — Part Six

11/22/2022 by Debbi

This continues our series from the end of Part Five.

The distribution part

As a POD published author and a self-published author, the biggest hurdle you face to getting your product placed in bookstores is the infeasibility of allowing your books to be returned for a complete refund if they aren’t sold. Not to mention the penalty you as the publisher get socked with for shipping costs. The alternative is for the bookseller to destroy the books. Both a financial waste and hardly an eco-conscious approach. But it’s been standard practice for a long, long time. Unfortunately, booksellers continue to insist upon doing this and traditional publishers continue to follow this practice, cranking out large print runs instead of finding ways to use modern technology to create new solutions.

The ‘No B.S. Guide’ to Self-Publishing — Part Five

11/15/2022 by Debbi

Picking up from where we left off in Part Four.

I believe we were going to talk about ISBNs. Let’s also talk about pricing your books. Especially print books, which requires only the most basic math skills.