The publishing nitty gritty: all the hoops to self-publish or publish

[ceciliatan]

OK, folks. A lot of people have been asking me for advice in recent years about either how to publish or how to self-publish. In the past year alone I’ve had four conference calls and half a dozen “coffee/tea” dates with people asking the same questions again and again, and I find myself telling the same things over and over again.

I figured I should make a post or two about the subject.

If you’ve asked me for advice about publishing or self-publishing, read this first, so you know what the hell I’m talking about when we actually talk, and we can skip to the things you actually have to ask ME about, and not the things you could have probably just Googled. I know, I know, you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet, and you want to hear from someone you trust. I’ll try to keep that trust by being smart and coherent here, and not an idiot. One caveat: the world of ebooks and publishing changes very fast and so something that is true and correct here today may be obsolete by Christmas 2012.

The first thing we should get out of the way is covering what steps a publisher takes to go from raw manuscript to finished salable product and how many people it takes to do so, whether the product is an ebook or a printed book.

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