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20 June 2007 | No Comments » | admin

self publishing services
What’s the best way to self-publish?

I’m writing a book and thinking about self-publishing (mainstream publishing is not ready for me). Has anyone out there ever done it? What did you use and how were the services?

I’m going to do it. But I’m not ready just yet. I’m still doing some preliminary research into the subject and developing a plan of attack.

I plan on using my own company imprint with my first novel.

This means I have to get a state business license for the operation–and then set up a website afterwards.

For my printing needs, I plan on using an out-of-state printer in the central US. Locally, I have found a few, but they weren’t what I needed for the book.

But for right now, I am going e-book.

EDIT: What Persiphone says is true to a point, but it’s meant to rattle and shake you from your primary objective–by saying that you have to go traditional no matter what.

I’ve spent 8 years doing what she suggested–and went nowhere fast. The mainstream is simply not accepting anymore new writers for the time being; subsisting primarily on their client lists and other previously published first-time authors.

As such, I have no real desire to spend the rest of my life chasing something which isn’t realistic or flexible in its business needs.

I’ll assume the risks of doing it myself. Not because of what the publishing industry demands of me.

But because this is what *I* want to do. And if they don’t like it, they can jump off the nearest suspension bridge.

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