Publishing your own book? Avoid making costly mistakes!

Sue Collier | March 30, 2010

Media Shift had an interesting article last week on The Pitfalls of Using Self-Publishing Packages. Basically, it offered a warning to authors who opt to go with so-called “self-publishing” companies such as iUniverse, Author House, and Lulu. This is a topic I have covered here many times, but I think it’s always worth a revisit [...]

I certainly don’t think Author Solutions is “evil”–but they cannot “self-publish” anyone

Sue Collier | March 10, 2010

I have to speak up again today after reading this blog post: http://blog.writersdigest.com/norules/CommentView.aspx?guid=8f273388-29f7-4bcc-9b1f-3efd79f5cf10
The blog wasn’t cooperating with my comment addition, however, so I’m going to put it right here:
“…the industry is now experiencing a “true self-publishing” movement that argues a “real” self-published author is one who eschews the use of services like AuthorSolutions.
“I find the [...]

Yes, think hard before self-publishing–but understand what “true” self-publishing is first

Sue Collier | March 10, 2010

I read this blog post today
http://cba-ramblings.blogspot.com/2010/03/think-hard-before-self-publishing.html
from a literary agent, who basically thinks self-publishing is a bad idea for the vast majority of authors. Because I disagree with so much of what she says–from the standpoint of authors who are truly self-published (and this is an important distinction!)–and wrote a lengthy comment to the post, I [...]