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Publishing/Self-Publishing Guidance

Let me be honest. Publishing is a lot of work. Publishing is NOT for everyone. First you have to come up with the manuscript. If no commercial publisher wants to publish your book (in spite of your having submitted it to a hundred publishers, then maybe their lack of interest is telling you something--like maybe your book is NOT as wonderful as you think it is. It may need editing--or more. If a publisher gives you advice, take it!) You have to make sure your manuscript is written well to a specifically defined market. Then you have to format it perfectly. (and go back and make sure it is still written well.) Then you have to decide how you're going to get it out to the public--if you're going to post it as a .pdf on a website, or if you're going to lay it out to be published in book form.

Once youve got it actually published, how are you going to market it? Where is it offered for sale? How are you going to keep track of royalties, if you are publishing someone else's work? Are you stuck with hundreds of copies because you fell for the lure of a vanity press and published inferior work without a market? If you need help making some of these choices, or help in various editing steps, if I can't help you, I know who can.

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