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Publishing

Publishing has changed completely in recent years and self-publishing has become a viable route for authors to take. Although it can look daunting at first, it’s not that hard once you get started. The articles here are to help you produce your book.

About publishing

  • Choosing the best route to publication
  • How many books will I sell?  
  • FAQ for new self-publishers
  • Getting help with self-publishing
  • How an author collective works 
  • When is self-publishing not self-publishing
  • Publishing children’s books
  • Understanding publishing jargon

The business side of self-publishing

  • Being careful with contracts
  • The cost of self-publishing
  • Funding your book
  • How not to waste your money
  • Being businesslike
  • FAQs about ISBNS 
  • US tax for UK authors
  • Public Lending Right
  • Taking the mystery out of metadata    

Titles

  • Title Trouble 

Creating ebooks

  • Ebook creation – the absolute basics
  • What is DRM and should I use it?
  • Behind the scenes in an ebook
  • Indents in ebooks


Creating print books

  • What is print-on-demand?
  • Printing and distribution for UK authors
  • Resources for creating print books


Book covers and illustrations

  • The basics of cover design   
  • Creating covers for print books
  • Finding pictures for covers
  • Working with pictures  

 

Welcome to Help with Publishing – a site created to help authors with writing, self publishing and marketing books.

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  • Getting started with self-publishing (5)
  • Ghostwriting (1)
  • Marketing (10)
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  • Publishing (20)
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  • Websites (7)
  • Writing (19)
  • Writing fiction (4)
  • Writing for children (3)
  • Writing non-fiction (1)
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