It’s entirely possible to get your book finished and published yourself, without spending more than a few hundred dollars.
That’s how we got started.
(If you’ve got exceptional skills you could probably do it for free).
Once we published our first book, everyone said “ooh” and “aah” and, mostly, “I wish I could do that someday”.
Life tends to go on, and someday just never comes.
Over the years we’ve had to learn how to work with cover designers, printers, distributors, advertisers, and so on, as well as figure out which ones are reliable.
You can absolutely do all that yourself and spend hardly any money at all to get your book onto websites and start selling it.
The truth is, if you’ve got enough gumption to do all that, you probably WILL sell enough copies to cover your costs.
As long as life or the spouse or the kids or the dog don’t intervene.
One of the advantages of working with us is you can tell these significant others: “I’m sorry, honey, but now that I’ve got a book contract, I have to get this update done if I want to get paid someday”. We’re there for you, helping you move the work along.
So, if you really do want to do-it-yourself, then we wish you all the best. The sea is plenty big enough for all us smaller fish to get along. In fact, I’m going to point you to a couple of resources who will give you more free advice than you will be able to follow faithfully (you’ll regret skipping those steps later, but nobody can do everything) and then you’ll probably find it worth while to take on one of their paid offerings.
- Chandler Bolt’s “Self-Publishing School“
- Alinka Rukowa’s “Author Remake” program
If it works, let us know, we’ll do a link to your book on a “Ones that got away” page or something. No hard feelings! If you took our advice and did it yourself, at least you took our advice!
For everyone else, we can work with you to give you the tools and the push to get the book out the door, onto the web and into the hands of readers. Here’s how it works.