Three Ways to Make Resistance Irrelevant and Win the Struggle to Create and Market Your Art
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Half a Conversation About Self-Publishing
I had a lengthy conversation about publishing. My half seems to make sense even without the questions, so I’m posting it here.
If you’re ready to even talk about getting your book out of the “someday” box, well, let’s talk, eh?
Print-on-Demand Using CreateSpace: Some Beginning Questions
Cheryl Campbell
Continuing our conversation with author Cheryl Campbell
I was going to list the ebook on Amazon KDB, and I thought I would do the POD print book here (please jump in if you have a different suggestion). But the pricing is looking really funky for a soft back book. A minimum price of $11.09 seems very steep to me.
And what is the Createspace eStore? How does this differ from Smashwords?
And down on the left side of the menu there is an option for Publish on Kindle...haven’t even gotten there. But if I was doing it on KDB, I wouldn’t need this extra piece, would I?
Newbies: All Good Questions Do Fine
I tell every writer I meet they can ask me all the questions they want. A handful ask a couple questions, and I always learn something new from the answers I have to come up with.
Once in a while I meet someone with the childlike sponge of curiosity, and it makes my day. Er, week. Perhaps month, depending on how long Cheryl Campbell keeps coming up with these questions.
Cheryl introduced herself on Linked In a few weeks ago, and we’ve chatted so often that I have over 10,000 words of Q&A stored up. And the questions are so universal to neophytes in modern publishing that I’ll be spending all week sharing her questions and my answers with you. And in an uncharacteristic twist, rather than burning hours reformatting everything, I’m going to just paste the emails in her, raw and essentially unedited.
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