Real Self Publishing

Creating Books that Are Gadgets
To publishers who will bring your book into the world en masse, your life-saving book is a gadget, lining up alongside many others.
Why You’d Make Things Difficult
Creating and publishing a book is taking on a challenge. David Brooks says that’s good for our souls.
Becoming Your Own Patron
Creators need support, in part because art often fights its way to the forefront of our souls. You can be that supporter.
Why book earnings are so secret
What about publishing for money?
You want to be especially careful about paying for somebody’s coaching who says you’ll get an agent. You can imagine how many problems look like a nail while such a coach swings that kind of hammer.
Agents can find your rights
Author-publishing money is not just in selling your ebooks on Amazon or Kobo. There’s money to made getting your popular books’ sub-rights sold by an open-minded agent.
Shorter books make more hope
Whether you write fiction or make non-fiction, there’s probably more than one book in your concept or your premise.
How to Keep Your Book Strike-proof
A book won’t need to go on strike to protect its rights to entertain, enlighten, and educate. Authors build in that protection through contracts.
Using reviews from Kirkus and Foreword
Every single review source that’s credible has a commercial side.
A bestseller shares her marketing steps

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