Print PDF
Favorite
Email
I am an award-winning author published in numerous anthologies as well as complete books of my writing. Because of my success, the professors of creative writing and English from my alma maters ask me to give lectures occasionally. It makes teachers feel proud when one of their students become a published author and returns to share their success with their class.
I am going to explain how I made this book from cover to cover, and how you can make and publish your own book. We will be covering editing, copyrights, ISBNs, barcodes, printing, binding, cover design, attaching the cover,and the three main ways to publish. Make notes to ask questions at the end of the lecture or at the end of each step of the books construction.
I often speak about being published by a publisher, self-publishing, and vanity publishing.
Many famous writers started by vanity publishing or self publishing.
Publishers will tell you their submission guidelines on line and by mail.
Vanity Publishers will publish anything as long as you are willing to pay many industries use vanity publishers for their in house printing. (I.e. Their catalogs or Trade Journals)
Although I have never paid a publisher to publish a book of my writing or a short story of mine, I have self-published one book of poetry. Books of poetry are hard to get published or market simply because of the limited market. Not a lot of people read poetry for the sheer joy of reading poetry, so a lot of good work would never be read unless self published or vanity published.
My book is studied as Canadian literature in a number of prestigious colleges and universities across North America and I self-published this book of poetry. So now I am not just the author I am the publisher.
I am going to explain how I made this book from cover to cover, and how you can make and publish your own book. We will be covering editing, copyrights, ISBNs, barcodes, printing, binding, cover design, attaching the cover,and the three main ways to publish. Make notes to ask questions at the end of the lecture or at the end of each step of the books construction.
I often speak about being published by a publisher, self-publishing, and vanity publishing.
Many famous writers started by vanity publishing or self publishing.
Publishers will tell you their submission guidelines on line and by mail.
Vanity Publishers will publish anything as long as you are willing to pay many industries use vanity publishers for their in house printing. (I.e. Their catalogs or Trade Journals)
Although I have never paid a publisher to publish a book of my writing or a short story of mine, I have self-published one book of poetry. Books of poetry are hard to get published or market simply because of the limited market. Not a lot of people read poetry for the sheer joy of reading poetry, so a lot of good work would never be read unless self published or vanity published.
My book is studied as Canadian literature in a number of prestigious colleges and universities across North America and I self-published this book of poetry. So now I am not just the author I am the publisher.
Remove these ads by
Signing UpStep 1Editing
Writing a story or book is the easy part if you are inspired, editing is more work, but simple if you take the time, get other people to read and critique your writing before you commit to print. Other people see what you don’t and you do not want mistakes in your book permanently.
Many publishers charge for editing and the larger the book the more they charge for editing your book. Some publishers are particular about the dialect of what they publish in this case it may be worth the cost to pay the publisher for editing. When critiquing writing, remember there are over eighteen different dialects of English with different spellings and grammar.
Watch out for spell checks; I write in a word processing program with the auto correct turned off, and still if I miss type the word “donut” missing the “u” it will auto correct to “don’t” instead of marking it spelled wrong. Auto correct makes many mistakes with typos and homophones. Others may call this a spelling mistake; I call this word confusion because this is a mistake created by the program and a typo.
Listen to what they say, if they say things like “It sounds awkward”, and “It is hard to follow”, or the killer of all stories, “Boring there is no suspense it is to predictable” your book is dead from the get go. Of course, this only applies if you have a western reader reading a western story, not a western reader reading a science fiction.
Many publishers charge for editing and the larger the book the more they charge for editing your book. Some publishers are particular about the dialect of what they publish in this case it may be worth the cost to pay the publisher for editing. When critiquing writing, remember there are over eighteen different dialects of English with different spellings and grammar.
Watch out for spell checks; I write in a word processing program with the auto correct turned off, and still if I miss type the word “donut” missing the “u” it will auto correct to “don’t” instead of marking it spelled wrong. Auto correct makes many mistakes with typos and homophones. Others may call this a spelling mistake; I call this word confusion because this is a mistake created by the program and a typo.
Listen to what they say, if they say things like “It sounds awkward”, and “It is hard to follow”, or the killer of all stories, “Boring there is no suspense it is to predictable” your book is dead from the get go. Of course, this only applies if you have a western reader reading a western story, not a western reader reading a science fiction.
| « Previous Step | Download PDFView All Steps | Next Step » |
But I do like this. I just wish I could win the lottery and then i wouldn't have to worry about money anymore. :)
thanks for the instructable though.
Other than printing it is possible to self-publish at a cost of $0.oo in Canada.
And an EBook at $10.oo.
Joe
http:www.redbubble.com is a place on the net where you can publish your work and get it proof red as well as paid for your art work. You can find some of my writing and photography at redbubble.com an ozy publisher. Writers network is another websight you can publish and get your writing critiqued.
Joe
Thanks for sharing! You've got my vote for the contest.
It's nice to see another Canuck here. :D
I saw your cookies there too. They looked yummy! I voted for them around the same time as when I posted. We were some of the first entries.
BTW, Good luck in the contests.