Saturday 31 August 2013

How to Self Publish - All You'll Ever Need to Know


What do I know about self publishing a novel? Absolutely zilch as it happens but I know someone who does.

Joanne Phillips has done it again! Not content with providing us with her brilliant Writing Magazine Index (which incidentally has reached the top 10 most viewed posts on my blog), she has produced a series of posts on her website on How to Self Publish.  It is so comprehensive that if you can't self publish a book after reading this then you probably never will!
 
 Joanne Phillips lives in Shropshire, England with her husband and young daughter. Since leaving school she’s worked as a hairdresser, an air hostess and a librarian, but now divides her time between writing novels and freelance indexing. She’s the author of commercial women’s fiction Can’t Live Without and The Family Trap, and the Flora Lively Investigates series of cozy mysteries. Can’t Live Without was an Amazon top 100 bestseller in 2012 and her books regularly appear on category bestseller lists.

Joanne's latest book Murder at the Maples will be launched on Thursday 12 September.

How many more useful resources can Joanne dream up, I wonder?

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12 comments:

  1. Karen31 August 2013 at 18:06

    I read Joanne's post and thought how brilliantly helpful it was. Definitely one to bookmark :o)

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    1. Wendy's Writing31 August 2013 at 18:13

      Hi Karen.I'm hoping that it might come in useful to me sometime in the future but until then, I am sure there will be a lot of writers who will be able to use the information.

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  2. Cara Cooper1 September 2013 at 07:22

    Thank you so much for this Wendy. I've not been brave enough to go down this route but I know others who have very successfully. It's so daunting when you haven't a clue how it's done and I'm sure it's a lot of hard work ON TOP of writing the book in the first place. This will be really useful for when I do put my toe in the water!

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  3. Amanda1 September 2013 at 07:45

    Joanne's post is excellent, Wendy. I will definitely be bookmarking. Thank you for sharing.

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  4. Linda D1 September 2013 at 13:27

    Thanks for the link, I've just had a quick look at Joanne's post (and blog). It seems to be packed wiith really useful information.
    My plan is still to try to find a traditional publisher for my novel (if there are any left by the time I actually finish it!) but the idea of self-publishing a collection of short stories is making more and more sense.

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  5. Rosemary Gemmell2 September 2013 at 09:14

    Thanks for sharing this, Wendy. I've used a friend's instructions before but I shall go and check out these!

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    1. Wendy's Writing2 September 2013 at 11:39

      I think you'll find them very thorough, Rosemary.

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  6. Keith Havers3 September 2013 at 10:53

    Thanks for the link, Wendy. It's something I want to do but haven't got around to it yet.

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    1. Wendy's Writing3 September 2013 at 12:26

      I think that's something a lot of us are saying, Keith... good on those like Joanne who actually get round to doing it.

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