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#920140 05/06/17 02:16 PM
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I've been trying for months to tackle the task of turning the hundreds of pages on my "getting published" website section into a giant "how to self publish" book. I already wrote the books on "how to write a book", "how to do an author signing", "how to use twitter as an author", etc. etc. But I'd left the core "how to self publish" section until last because it is such a HUGE topic that I've written so much content on.

I've decided, at last, to break it up into smaller books. I think it's the only way to wrap my head around the task. So first up I will compile a relatively short (maybe 80 pages) book specifically on 'Traditional Publishing vs Self Publishing'. That will get me started and hopefully be helpful to new authors.

What are you up to?

Here's the pages I'm building from. Part of the challenge is that I'm updating my website pages as I update the book, so there's a lot of back-and-forth involved.

http://www.lisashea.com/lisabase/writing/gettingyourbookpublished/



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OK I've done it, I finished the first draft of my book on different options for getting published. It ended up being 63 pages. It goes over the differences between traditional publishing, small press publishing, vanity publishing, and self-publishing. So this is not a "how to" book - it is a "understanding the basics" book. That then leads into my next book which is a "how to" for traditional publishing. And then I'll do the "how to" for self-publishing.

Way back when I began this project I thought I'd turn the entire Lisa Shea Writing area of my website into one massive "how to write and publish" book. Now I have turned it into 14 separate books. There was more content there than I thought!!

Here's my first run at a cover - yup, blue and gold. It feels fairly dark, though. Maybe I should make the book cover ivory with black letters? And I'm not sure the main title stands out enough ...

I'm still very open to ideas on the cover, on the title, on the content, and so on.

Let me know if you'd be interested in seeing a free copy to give me some feedback on polishing it up! Thanks!



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