Making It As A Self-Published Author
We will discuss how to create and publish our own books and choose the best format for this.
Fri, Jul 2, 2021 12:00 PM (EDT)
Prince Tea House,
New York,
New York
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Currently, the book publishing industry is changing, and it’s not a secret that Amazon has been at the forefront of this revolution. Not only is the company getting into transitional publishing, with the eBook Kindle platform (not to mention competing products such as Kobo, Nook and so on), writers are no longer at the mercy of huge New York publishing houses. Nor is the only other option vanity publishing, where you have to spend a lot of money before the printing process begins to pay a company to print, bind and stock your books (which may or may not sell). At this point, it’s no problem for rookie authors to write a manuscript, upload it and commence collecting money via Amazon’s distribution system.
It’s not going to be that straightforward, though. Unwary writers will still have to cope with a lot of traps on the way to success. To begin with, there must be thousands of people who are writing and uploading eBooks nowadays. Obviously, with such a broad amount of competition, having your work noticed necessitates a fair amount of work. And this is where a lot of new writers are falling down on the job. They seem to think that once the manuscript is done, they’re finished. But there are still a lot of things to do.
- Number one: get a good cover made. Nothing makes a book stand out from the competition more than an eye-catching cover. And a shoddily done cover will limit your sales (and therefore your income). It makes sense; who would bother to take a chance on a story when the author hasn’t bothered to get a decent cover made for it?
- Second, there is the technical process of formatting the manuscript for Kindle, Kobo and so on. Each device has a different standard, and just putting an MSWord document up on Amazon is going to create a Kindle book that has odd spaces, line breaks, chapter breaks, etc. In extreme cases, this lack of formatting can render the manuscript all but unreadable, and even in cases where it’s not that extreme, bad formatting will leave a bad taste in the reader’s mouth. Along the same lines, you should employ a professional proof-reader to give your work a once-over. Misspelled words, run-on sentences and the like will drive away many readers, and if your book should happen to get reviewed by a blogger with a large following, you can bet that technical English issues will draw criticism. Unfortunately, all too many authors neglect this vital aspect of publishing, resulting in books that are, in a word, unprofessional. If you plan to sell your books, that means that you are going to be a professional writer. So you should uphold the standards of professionalism as much as you can.
- Finally, there is uploading the manuscript to whatever website or service you’re going to use to distribute it. Again, many authors simply don’t want to deal with the hassle of this step. But even someone who is technically challenged will have to either figure this out or else hire somebody to do it for them.
In conclusion
But you needn’t fret. There are services out there that can facilitate all of these concerns. And they needn’t cost all that much. Depending on the degree of help you need, you can get, for instance, a guide to upload books on Kindle, complete with snippets of HTML code already written out for you, for as little as a couple of dollars. If you are having trouble getting started writing a book or essay, you can get essay help.
Editors can be contracted for less than $100.00 (for a normal-length manuscript that doesn’t need too much in the way of fixing). You can also find cover artists who can be contracted for a similar amount.
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