SelfPublishing Boot Camp Workbook Author:Carla King, Lisa Alpine The insights, information, tips, worksheets and checklists in this workbook make it the essential guide to successful navigation through the complexities of your publishing project. The method is simple: When all the tasks are check off, your book is published. — The book grew out of the authors' experiences leading the workshop for prospe... more »ctive self-publishers. They use their 10 Steps to the tasks necessary to complete a book project. The workbook becomes a place to both plan your actions and record your results.
This book works for authors of fiction and non-fiction, memoir, mystery, poetry, business, art and photography, children's books, anthologies and more.
The book takes you through the 10 basic steps to self-publishing success:
1 State your mission and goals: Get a sanity-check on your life-work purpose and how the book fits in, for future decision-making processes. The importance of a tantalizing elevator speech.
2 Develop your platform and start promoting: Why you, why now? Stand out in your genre, community, and on the internet using social media and other promotion activities.
3 Take care of business: Check off the basic tasks for doing business as a publisher including getting a DBA, ISBNs, a SAN and bar codes, plus creating a realistic budget.
4 Finish writing your book: Focus on completing a quality end-product, including why you really need to outsource editing and proofreading.
5 Design your book: Using graphics, photography, and typography to create an attention-grabbing cover design and an enjoyable reading experience. Gather assets for your book, and learn how to hire a designer.
6 Get your book into the system: Identify the national information systems you need to participate in so that your book is recorded in the proper databases.
7 Print your book: Print proofs, short runs, advance copies, and quantities of books using Print On Demand (POD), short run, and offset vendors.
8 Sell your book: Use your website and social media tools to the max for keeping the book sales coming, and get ideas for taking advantage of non-bookstore markets for maximum profits.
9 Distribute your book: Get distribution for effortless sales into brick-and-mortar bookstores and online bookstores nationally and internationally.
10 Ongoing promotion: Continue to develop your platform to assert your presence and expertise in the marketplace and keep selling for a long time.« less