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Bezig met laden... Self-Printed: The Sane Person's Guide to Self-Publishing (Second Edition)door Catherine Ryan Howard
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 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 |   The good points: 1. Catherine Ryan Howard is funny as heck. There were some laugh-out-loud moments, an uncommon find in how-to books. 2. The author covers publicity and marketing much better than most of the other how-to-self-publish books I've read. The bad: 1. The book is too long. At least twice, the author mentions writing in front of the TV, and it shows. She rambles. It's copy-edited, but a good content edit could have cut ½ to 1/3 of the length of this book, leaving the important information – and humor – intact. 2. Formatting. Ugh! Yes, you can get a reasonably well-formatted book by uploading a Word file to Smashwords and Kindle, but you can do so much better by using a good ebook formatting program or service. My version of this book lacked a navigable table of contents, a serious problem in a how-to book. I wouldn't recommend this as a primer, but it's good if you want to up your marketing game or have a laugh about certain types of self-publishers and cheesy self-promoters. (  ) Amelia_Smith | May 2, 2015 | Catherine Ryan Howard is very funny. She's also very frank and opinionated. Which is good. If nothing else, her how to guide will discourage those who must be discouraged from publishing "stinky poo." It's full of valuable, practical information and lots of laughs. (  ) DonnaCallea | Nov 29, 2014 | ) joannagawn | Jan 20, 2012 | ) IrishHolger | Jun 6, 2011 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: The fully-revised and updated third edition of Catherine Ryan Howard's pragmatic 'how to' self-publishing guide. Do you think that no one has the right to stand between you and your published writer dreams? That the publishing industry is going down in flames and self-publishers are going to rise like a 99c phoenix from the ashes? That all literary agents are interested in doing is blogging sarcastically about the rhetorical question at the start of your query letter, that editors will just use your submitted manuscript for kindling and that you'll be senile before you hear back from either of them? That once you've uploaded the book you finished yesterday afternoon to Amazon, it'll be mere minutes before the money starts rolling in and you can quit your day job? Do you say things like 'gatekeepers', 'The Big Five', 'E.L. James', 'legacy publishing' and 'indie author' a lot? Are you self-publishing to 'show them all'? If you've answered yes to one or more of these questions then I do apologise, but this isn't the book for you. This book is for writers who consider self-publishing to be a good Plan B, or even a sideline to traditional publication. Who want to do it the cheapest and easiest way possible while still producing a quality product. Who understand that much like Starbucks outlets and Nespresso coffee machines, traditional and self-publishing can peacefully co-exist. Writers who know that they don't have to sell a million copies of their book to start earning a living from their writing, but that they do have to work hard and treat it like a business. Who are blessed with common sense and live in the real world at least most of the time. Who find my jokes funny... If this sounds like you, then Self-printed: The Sane Person's Guide to Self-publishing may be just the 'How To...' guide you were looking for. It will tell you everything you need to know in order to publish a Print On Demand paperback and e-book, and (crucially) sell them, without sounding like anti-Big Publishing propaganda produced by the Ministry of Truth. Be warned: you are now entering a No Saying 'Gatekeepers' Zone... .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
LibraryThing-AuteurCatherine Ryan Howard is een LibraryThing auteur: een auteur die zijn persoonlijke bibliotheek toont op LibraryThing. Actuele discussiesGeenPopulaire omslagen  
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As I discovered last year when reviewing her collection of blog posts, after becoming a traditionally published thriller writer, the author pulled everything to do with self publishing from her website, so the many links that would have provided explanations, references, etc are gone. This massively reduces the usefulness of the guide. Not only that, but also even the sole reference to the fact that she had ever been self published has now been expunged from the 'about' page on her website since I previously checked it in late June 2021. As well as totally transforming the website, she removed all ebook versions of her earlier books from Amazon (only second hand paperback copies are now available). This leaves a rather odd feeling when reading a guide which espouses the cause of self publishing so energetically, especially when the author makes it clear how much she still enjoyed blogging in 2014 when this edition was published, and that she would never give up doing it. I used to receive her emails and judging by the last one received, her final blog entry was dated 26 July 2019 so I must assume that she ceased blogging after that date.
Given all this, I'm afraid I must deduct an additional star giving an overall rating of 3 stars. People wanting an up-to-date guide which has live links to a wealth of useful material would be far better off reading David Gaughran's free 'Let's Get Digital' (fourth edition) which I awarded a full 5 stars. (