Three Ways to Make Resistance Irrelevant and Win the Struggle to Create and Market Your Art
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Money Has Nothing To Do With Writing
If you have a way to pay the bills while you launch yourself into writing, that’s great. If it leaves you real time for writing, even better.
Here’s a reality check for you. It’s long and of dubious interest to anyone but me. But I’m a writer; that’s what I do.
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Free ISBN? Not a Problem.
ISBNs are confusing.
In many countries, they’re free. Apparently those folks have a God-given (or government-given) right to be listed as the publisher of their own work, finances notwithstanding.
In the US, you’ll pay for the privilege of appearing to have published your own book. Bowker owns the monopoly. Like most monopolies, they’re expensive. But at least they’re hard to deal with, too, so you get the full package.
Free ISBNs abound, if you’re willing to let the owner of the ISBN be listed as the publisher. I bought 10 ISBNs back when I cared. That’s the last money I’ll spend on them.
Let’s use CreateSpace as an example, prompted by a question on Linked In.
Discovering Book Design: One Small Step
I asked the talented Dave Bricker for recommendations on book design, especially interior layout. He recommended Richard Hendel’s On Book Design.
And for the first time in a very long time, I’m completely sucked into a new discipline.
It’s a hygiene sort of art; when you’re done, it should be invisible. Most readers know nothing about book design. Most people I’ve talked to, voracious readers, never thought about what goes into the layout of the interior of a book until I mentioned it.
The exploration has just begun. I’ll be taking it slow, not wanting to derail the rewrite of anodyne. Besides, these books are semi-rare and not cheap.
I’ll keep you posted.