In this four-part podcast series, I'll introduce you to a couple of my friends who've traveled the world on motorcycles.
Tag Archives: self publishing
Is Writing a Book One of Your New Year’s Resolutions?
You've heard the drumbeat—You need to write a book! Your competitors have already written books, where's yours? Maybe you don't need to write a book to succeed, but if you've been thinking about it, let's talk.
Write Your Book, Even if You Flunked English Class
It’s time to “Kickstart Your Business Book”
Live Full Throttle Wins TWO, count ’em TWO National Book Awards!
A year ago I published Live Full Throttle: Life Lessons From Friends Who Faced Cancer, and now it's won two national book awards!
Workshop: Is 2013 the Year of YOUR Book?
Distribution: Self-Publishing’s Final Hurdle
The last step in the self-publishing process is getting the book into the reader's hands (or reading device). I'm not talking about marketing in this post (I'll talk about that later); I'm talking about dead-tree distribution here because that's how I published Live Full Throttle, for reasons I outlined earlier in this series.
What’s the TRUE Cost of Your Book?
Hardback or Softcover for your Self-Published Book?
When you're publishing your own work, you're taking on all the departmental responsibilities of a publisher: editing, design, printing, financing, distributing and marketing. Unless you're publishing an e-book you'll have to choose a book binding.* Deciding between hardback and softcover lies at the intersection of finance and marketing.
Self-Publishing: Book Prototype for Publicity and Advance Sales
So far we've talked about the need to hire a book designer and editor. I took the step of developing a prototype for Live Full Throttle: Life Lessons From Friends Who Faced Cancer. Mine is in a PDF and included the cover, introduction and first chapter, but you could include less. You'll see that I used the Flash capabilities of Scribd to embed it here.