What’s hot in the publishing marketplace?
Try the Writer’s Digest website for starters. This is the successor to the decades-old publication which helped budding writer find agents, publishers, and marketing.
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APE your book
Guy Kawasaki and co-author Shawn Welch have done self-publisher wanna be’s a great service in creating APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. Watch their trailer to get started….
Now, if you want any help publishing that book that’s just waiting to get out of your brain and onto the page, contact Touchwood Press here.
Do-it-yourself…or get a little help.
Publishing it yourself is just like do-it-yourself before computers. Back then, I spent many off-work hours doing it myself…to our household plumbing, our garage and basement, and to the backyard. I gave this up when I got hooked on computers because I discovered I was less likely to damage myself and others and because all those trips to the hardware store – to pick up what we forgot the last time or replace what we’d broken – got expensive.
Now, you can do your own book yourself, get your creative out, and dream of fame and fortune on the best seller list…or not. But the first step is getting inspired. Read on.
E-Book formats. Yikes!
In the old days of publishing, a writer who was not independently wealthy had two choices: work with a traditional publisher or work with a vanity publisher. The complexities and cost of book publishing were prohibitive for all but the few.
In the golden age age of desktop publishing, roughly 1985 until the introduction of the Kindle, personal computers opened up publishing to the many.
Now, writers do have many options, but increasingly, they are limited in being able to reach their entire potential market by a new set of complexities that begin with e-book formats and end with social media, e-commerce, and old-fashioned competition. For a glimpse into the chaos that is e-book formatting, see this Wikipedia article.
See us for help.