Excerpt
Congratulations! You're considering publishing your own work! Or perhaps you're already publishing.
This is not going to be a step-by-step guide on how to publish.
Instead, this book is going to make sure that you know which questions to ask.
It's been my experience that when I start to learn a new topic—and I mean something really new—I don't even know enough to ask questions. Or the right questions.
This book assumes that while you know some things about publishing (perhaps you've even published things before), there's things you don't know, things you don't even know that you need to ask about or think about.
This book isn't going to answer those questions. Instead, it's going to direct you to areas you need to think about, to at least get you to ask questions about a topic.
There won't be homework, per se, with some of the chapters. But I will tell you that you'll need to do research.
For example: the number of platforms where you can publish ebooks is continually changing. Platforms start up, become the hottest new thing, then begin to have problems and publishers move away from using them. If I gave you a list of where you could publish your ebooks, it would be out of date five minutes after I wrote it.
You'll need to do your own research.
Another example. Covers. Tastes change. Look at book covers that were considered modern and hip and cool in the 1970s. They look horribly dated to us now.
The covers you do today will look great today.
Will they still be considered great five years from now? Or will they look dated?