Self-Taught Self-Publishing: A Beginner's Guide to the Brave New World of Publishing
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This guide provides formatting tips to make your life easier, a reference guide to the differences in formatting you'll need for different distributers, the caveats to publishing a print edition, and more.
Erin M. Klitzke
Erin M. Klitzke has been writing since she was an adolescent, though most of those early works will never see the light of day. She got her BA in history and anthropology from Grand Valley State University and her MA in history from Oakland University, and much to her mother’s occasional dismay, what she does with those degrees is write fiction. She lives in Detroit’s northern suburbs and enjoys reading, sewing, gaming, and renaissance festivals when she’s not creating her own worlds. You can find her on the web at www.embklitzke.com, e-mail her at doc (at) embklitzke (dot) com, and follow her on Twitter at @EMBKDoc.
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Self-Taught Self-Publishing - Erin M. Klitzke
Self-Taught Self-Publishing:
A Beginner’s Guide to the Brave New World of Publishing
By
Erin Klitzke
Smashwords edition
Taliesin Ambrose Books
Copyright © 2013 Erin M. Klitzke
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Recommended Reading
Advantages to Self-Publishing
Ebooks vs. Paper Books: One or Both?
General Formatting
Covers Matter
The Dreaded Blurb
Slow your roll: First readers, proofreading, and editing
Formatting for Ebooks
Publishing your Ebook
Formatting and caveats for your print edition
Tell the World
Final Thoughts
Acknowledgements
Other Books by Erin M. Klitzke
Introduction
When I went to the Desert Nights, Rising Stars writing conference at ASU in 2013, the inevitable question that arose whenever I mentioned that I had taken the self-publishing/indie publishing route for my work was How did you do it?
or Where did you learn to do that?
The answer is pretty simple: the Internet.
This ebook is built on what I’ve learned from research and learning through trial and error. I started down the road as an independently publishing author in 2011. My road started comparatively late for a lot of people who have been doing this for a long time--I didn't really start down the indie pub route until 2011, so by that time there was a wealth of resources for me to draw from. Why is that? Because there were a lot of blogs out there from some fairly big names (well, okay, I had heard of several of them, at least, but I'm a huge nerd) that were talking about it.
Back in early 2011, I was screwing my head back on straight after the long, arduous and abruptly truncated work of writing and defending my Master's thesis. I had suffered every graduate student’s nightmare: my advisor passed away in the middle of my project and all of a sudden I realized I did not have very much time to finish under my new team--six weeks from very rough draft to finished 200-page historical study. This is not an experience I would wish on anyone and I do not recommend it as a route toward advanced scholarship.
Once I had finished this massive project, however, I suddenly found myself with a great deal more time than I had before. My system of time management had changed due to working