Publishing your own works
When it comes to publishing your own work – whether it be your autobiography or a fiction piece you’ve being working on, there are several routes to choose to get your written work designed, printed and distributed.
One option is to find a publisher suitable for provide these services for you. Firstly, search for a publisher who is going to be likely to be interested in your topic. If it’s your life story or someone else’s, then seek a publisher who focuses on biographies. If it’s a fictional romance, thriller or sci-fi for example, then find a publisher who already publishes similar works. This will utilise their design skills when helping you create your styling of the book and the all important cover and dust jacket.
These establishments will have contracts in place with plenty of book printers who specialise in monochrome printing and case binding, so you won’t have to worry about setting up accounts or paying up front for the printing process. They will also have the most suitable contacts within the sales and distribution arena by choosing a publisher of similar ilk’s of work. Don’t see other books as competition – see them as potential leads for generating interest in your title, when they are all sat on the shelves together. Remember, especially in book stores, people will spend a long time browsing.
By piggy backing on their established routes to market you’ll get in to the right point of sale quicker and more efficiently time wise than doing it yourself, as your book will be fed into their chain of distribution along with multiple others. All this will come at a cost, literally. Each publisher will have a pricing system in place for all these services, so do a cost comparison of a few relevant publishers first to gauge which offer the best benefits and package to best promote your time.
Alternatively, there is the option to self publish. This can be more time consuming but could save you money. The self publish theme will be followed up in more detail in a later post.
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