On Saturday, I will be teaching a class on self-publishing through Indigo Editing & Publications. (Read the full description here.) There’s still room available for those who would like to attend. I could offer you a long list of reasons why you should take this class, but instead, I’ll tell you a story.
Last night, I spoke on the phone with a woman who is working on her second self-published novel. Her first self-published novel came out last summer. She used a big-name self-publishing company to produce her book, and the process she went through was costly, cumbersome, and impersonal. She spent thousands of dollars on sub par editing and design. Many of the “add-on services” she paid for were worthless. In the end, the royalties she’ll receive from the sale of her book are not much better than the royalties a traditionally published author received. All of this led her to question the model she chose and the thousands of dollars she spent on the process. That, in turn, led her to me.
After just a few minutes listening to me explain the various ways self-publishing can happen, she perked up. “Had I known all this,” she said, “I would have done things differently. This would have saved me a lot of frustration.” Like many authors, she thought there was just one option. There isn’t. And if you’re seriously considering self-publishing, you need to be educated before you start the process.
The reason I’m offering this class is to help authors avoid costly mistakes like the ones my new friend made. I’m not interested in selling authors a package or forcing them into using a specific model. I simply want to offer them a look at all the options to help them decide how to proceed (or whether to proceed at all). To misquote a popular auto insurance ad: “A forty-five dollar, ninety-minute class could save you thousands.”
Interested? You can register here: http://www.indigoediting.com/workshops.html.
