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Is Self-publishing for you?
 | If the market for your book is narrow or specialised and
easily targeted, publishing makes sense. |
| If you have marketing ideas and the energy and time to do the work,
self-publishing can be fun. |
| If you have not got the time or patience to send it round
the agents or publishers (but you can later find enough time to market your
work), self-publishing might work for you. |
| If your work is topical, so you are in a hurry, try self-publishing
if you feel you really can market your book. |
| Self-publish only if you have realistic expectations about your
likely income and the time marketing will take. |
| If you think that just publishing the book yourself will
automatically improve your
chances of finding a publisher for subsequent work, forget it - it's
sales figures that count.(But every year at least one
WPS book has been taken up by a publisher) |
Of course you want to get your work published and get some recognition for
your work, but is your book going to achieve this? Not unless you can actually
sell some copies.
So the question you have to answer is: Can you and will you sell your book?
BUT two warnings and check you need to do...
| Do
you rate your work as excellent in spite of professional opinion to the
contrary? If so, you should consider whether publishing it may be
pure vanity publishing. Is anyone going to read it? |
| If
you feel that nobody understands you or your work, you really need to ask
some hard questions and demand some honest answers of yourself. Don't
waste your emotional and financial energy on a piece of work that nobody
will read. |
Self-publishing...
. .. Does work.
Many writers have made a success of
self-publishing. It takes energy, focus, determination and good writing.
Our
News
Review often has stories about the growth of self-publishing in the
States.
Co-publishing is increasingly the model we use.
If your work is up to standard we will offer to work with
you. We bear the costs of publication and then share the profit.
Private Publishing
If you want to see your work in book form but don't want to have the bother
of selling it, or you just want to give it away, then you should consider the
option of Private Publishing.
Do you really want to be a self-publisher? - letters from a friend - read
on
If you want to run the project yourself then head for this
page of hints and links.
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