Seven secrets or Thirty shirty authors?
September 18th 2007 22:44
Self Publishing Workshop at Brisbane Writers Festival - 15 Sept 07
Welcome authors everywhere... my first post is about my thoughts after a workshop called "seven secrets to self-publishing" by new self-publishing printers, BookPal.
After much hedging around the topics the speakers were inundated with questions about self-publishing online. It seemed that the attendees, and rightly so, were totally in the dark about how to get self-published and whether an interface like BookPal (.au) could help them. What I realised early on in the hash of a workshop, was:
* people either wanted to publish for love - leaving a legacy and giving/selling to family and friends was their main motivator, or
* others wanted to publish for profit- for commercial reasons as well as the fine motivation of being in print.
This great dividing range requires very different approaches to the self-publishing game. Obviously when you are not publishing to make a profit, you need not worry so much about a catchy title, marketing/publicity plan, ISBN barcodes, libraries and book distributor networks. Incidentally, if you do not worry about all these things and your aim was to self-publish for profit, you will end up losing money.
Anyway, seven secrets were never uncovered since people had too many questions regarding the nitty-gritty (ie. can I send you it on disk if I dont have broadband). I also think, having gone through much trial and error self publishing, there are more like 47 secrets to self-publishing.
So now begins my journey to help writers get their book published. This year, whats left, will be spent researching what people need, perhaps helping some, and next year I hope to do some very cheap seminars (in Brisbane libraries) on how to self-publish.
I LOVE EDITING - please send me your work...
Jennifer - Power of Words.
Welcome authors everywhere... my first post is about my thoughts after a workshop called "seven secrets to self-publishing" by new self-publishing printers, BookPal.
After much hedging around the topics the speakers were inundated with questions about self-publishing online. It seemed that the attendees, and rightly so, were totally in the dark about how to get self-published and whether an interface like BookPal (.au) could help them. What I realised early on in the hash of a workshop, was:
* people either wanted to publish for love - leaving a legacy and giving/selling to family and friends was their main motivator, or
* others wanted to publish for profit- for commercial reasons as well as the fine motivation of being in print.
This great dividing range requires very different approaches to the self-publishing game. Obviously when you are not publishing to make a profit, you need not worry so much about a catchy title, marketing/publicity plan, ISBN barcodes, libraries and book distributor networks. Incidentally, if you do not worry about all these things and your aim was to self-publish for profit, you will end up losing money.
Anyway, seven secrets were never uncovered since people had too many questions regarding the nitty-gritty (ie. can I send you it on disk if I dont have broadband). I also think, having gone through much trial and error self publishing, there are more like 47 secrets to self-publishing.
So now begins my journey to help writers get their book published. This year, whats left, will be spent researching what people need, perhaps helping some, and next year I hope to do some very cheap seminars (in Brisbane libraries) on how to self-publish.
I LOVE EDITING - please send me your work...
Jennifer - Power of Words.
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