Publishing a book

RK1

Hi, I am looking in to publishing my book but have no idea on how to get started. I have finished two of my books and I am about to start a third but i wish to get my books published. can anyone point me in the right direction.

Best Regards,

RK1.

choille

You could look at vanity publishers or send a manuscript off to agents or publishers. You'll get a list of them in Artists & writers yearbook.
Be prepared for disapointment.

I'm surprised that you've done two without looking into publishing before now.
The market is very competitive & fickle.

RK1

Thank you for the advise and i will be looking that up straight away.

podperson

It depends how you want them to be published. You could try researching publishers in your area, see if any take open submissions and start applying there. Work on a decent synposis and polish up as much as possible - often they will ask for the first three chapters only so make sure your writing is tight.

II would avoid vanity publishers like the plague quite frankly but if you wanted to self publish then decide if you want it as ebook or print. Ebook is relatively cheap and easy to do but there are companies who will do print layout for you and work on an orders only basis. Choosing this route then obviously you need to look into marketing, getting your presence out there and competing with the huge number of other people doing the same.

lincroft1710

RK1 wrote: »

Thank you for the advise and i will be looking that up straight away.

For someone who has written 2 books you should know that "advise" is a verb, the noun is "advice".

Another advantage of using The Writers and Artists Yearbook is that in each publisher's entry states whether or not they accept unsolicited manuscripts and whether they only deal with literary agents.

mark260311

What id think about is:
1. Get Sigil
2. Register on Amazon - You can sell your own ebooks there!
3. Set up a dedicated website with links to direct download and your amazon link
4. Create a twitter feed and facebook page

Then just promote the hell out of your self.

patman99

Nothing stopping you selling on Amazon, iTunes or any of the other e-book self-publishing sites.
There is a fellow MSE'er by the name of MrBloater who already has published e-books, so might be worth searching for him and sending him a PM.

Mcai7zh2

Publish ebook
Set up pages of facebook, Google+ - promote like hell and read other blogs, network a lot
Get Twitter account
Join online ebook forums
Follow twitter accounts that publish ebooks to get idea
Ask bloggers to review your book and write online review linking to your website

mehera

I promoted the !!! of my book and still only sold a few copies!

Consider publishing for fun only not for profit . . .

Even successful books only make pocket money for the author. A bduget to promote a book could be 5-10k so if you try and do it on the cheap you are rather likely to fail.

Its lots of work for little return if you want to publish a book!

surfsister

mark260311 wrote: »

What id think about is:
1. Get Sigil
2. Register on Amazon - You can sell your own ebooks there!
3. Set up a dedicated website with links to direct download and your amazon link
4. Create a twitter feed and facebook page

Then just promote the hell out of your self.

hi mark could you explain a bit how sigil works looks interesting!

theoretica

A few of my friends have published on Lulu (technical books with a small market) and done the promotion themselves.