Tips and Tricks on Self-publishing Your Book

Not all people are born to pursue the same path in writing. Not all people are destined to become a book author and not all aspiring writers are destined to be successful and best selling novelists. Your book needs to be published, bought and read by the people before you can claim yourself to be a book author or a successful novelist. So first, you need to publish your book before people can recognize you’ve written that manuscript. Today, the entire complex process to make it happen has been abridged in parallel with the world’s high technology. You don’t need a publisher when you can self-publish your book. Nobody is required to approve your time and your effort.

First, focus on your expertise

Every aspiring writer has specific interest. Before thinking about moving forward, make sure what genre your book embraces. Know who your book audience are and see to it that your book catches their attention by their first time looking at it. Impress the readers with what you actually know and what you can share to them.

Impress yourself

You as an author, have all the right to judge your book before others can. Judge your book first by its cover. When you are not satisfied with the design of your book’s cover, try one more time and even several times until you will be satisfied. When you are content with the outcome of the design, there is no reason why others might not be feeling the same.

Know NO Stipulations

You can go on and start self-publishing your book with no required approval from huge publishing houses. You simply do it by yourself and continue until you reach the highest peak of your self-publishing. How does it work without the aid of these gigantic companies which used to be contacted by aspiring writers and given proposals for possible publication of their works?
Scale yourself. When you think you can do everything such as editing your work over and over again; then you can just do it and save that money you can pay for a professional editor. You are the boss in this new trend in the world of literature; so you’ve got the power to manage the way you want your self-publishing go.

Be professional

Imagine yourself receiving criticisms from the readers about your book. Surely you can’t impress everybody but if all of them are complaining about the same problems of misspelled words and grammar issues; then the problem really exists. Make sure your book is well-edited and the flow of the content is smooth so readers won’t be misled.

Price your book as low as possible

Especially when you are just a new author and are self-publishing, people do not want to spend much of their money on your book. You need to do the experiment first by setting a very low price for your book and from there you will know if they have the sympathy for the genre you are trying to lay emphasis on. When you are sure you’ve done all the professional works necessary to perfect your book; there is no reason they won’t be impressed by it and that’s the beginning of your name to be established. In that case, you can start setting price for your next books that is reasonable for both of the readers and you.

How to self-publish a book [Infographic]

Self-publishing a book involves perfecting a book as the pedestal and going further into marketing it to the right readers. As self-publisher, you need to edit, choose the best book title and design, acquire copyright and ISBN for your book and have it printed or published online.

Adventures on Promise Island by Ruth Esther Vawter

Adventures on Promise Island

Step into Promise Island, the last hope of healing for four troubled teens plagued by anger, rebellion, rejection, and trauma. Join them as they experience a chance of a lifetime.

Meet Miguel, a gang leader who comes to the island handcuffed to his parole officer; Tobi, the rich kid who has bullied people all his life; Ya Ming, who hates God because she has been traumatized by a car accident that killed her beloved brother and left her paralyzed and unable to achieve her dancing dreams; and Keerstin, a devoted Christian teen, storyteller, and artist,
who feels rejected because she cannot read.

Each teen is assigned a Promise Team Mentor who has already overcome their own relatable obstacles to steer them in the right adventure. But it seems that their rebellion, fear, anger, danger, and unworthiness tend to prevent them from achieving a positive outlook on life.

See how each teen achieves different levels of physical and emotional healing as they encounter adventures in the different island states of Love, Obedience, Faith, and Knowledge. Join them as they encounter closer relationships with the Trinity in the Sea of Tranquility, Patience Lake, Shadow Valley, Commitment Forest, Forgotten Desert, Endurance River, and Look Out Point on Truth Mountain and experience your own personal healing.

Ruth Esther Vawter

Ruth Esther has been writing devotions for 30 years for her friends, family, and church. She began writing when she read through the Bible in a year in 1980. Applications of Biblical stories were easily applied to her daily living. Ruth Esther hosted a radio program titled Prayer Techniques to Spice Up Your Life in 1985. Ms. Vawter was co-founder, editor, and columnist for the Christian Informer Newspaper in Indianapolis from 1987-1989. Ruth Esther retired from the Indianapolis Public Schools, teaching first through sixth grades. Ms. Vawter loves her two daughters, their spouses, and five grandchildren.

The idea for writing Adventures on Promise Island was inspired in 1982, with the concepts and outline of the map of the island. When she shared the idea with her mother, who ministered in the gift of healing, her mother could not understand why she would want to write a book. Her mother was the strongest Christian she knew, but only achieved an eighth grade education. The story was a continuing column in The Christian Informer Newspaper. Afterwards, she was paralyzed to go further with the story because she kept hearing her mother’s words: “Why would you want to write a book?”

Know more about Ruth Esther Vawter in here website found here: http://www.promiseisland.com/

Adventures on Promise Island sequel

Currently, Ruth Esther is writing the sequel to Adventures on Promise Island entitled Return to Promise Island. The four teens: Miguel, Tobi, Ya Ming, and Keerstin, return to Promise Island after six months. Follow her blog to suggest how the teens were able to function in their environments after their adventures on Promise Island.
* Was Miguel able to leave the gang alive or become deeper involved?
* Did Tobi stop being the school bully?
* Was Ya Ming able to walk again?
* Did Keerstin learn to read?
* Four new teens will have experiences on the island. Ruth Esther is requesting suggestions on teens with problems and adventures they could encounter to overcome these issues in their lives.
* What are the common teen difficulties, on your heart, which need to be addressed? Share them so more teens will receive help through the power of the Holy Spirit, and the love of Jesus Christ.
But the Adventures on Promise Island now at the following online stores: AMAZON, Barnes and Noble, WinePress Books (Paperback) and WinePress Books (eBook)

Self-Publishing VS Traditional [Infographic]

Self-Publishing differs from Traditional Publishing in so many ways. Main distinctions are based on the advantages and disadvantages of its every angle such as the cost, publishing time, control, and the profit.

Self-Publishing VS Traditional

Which is preferred by the authors these days: Traditional Book Publishing or Self-Publishing? Let me discuss the comparison of the two in every specific aspect.

5 Fundamental distinction

Period of Accomplishment
It may take years for a manuscript to become a book in the traditional publishing. This is due to the process where author has to mail publishing companies with a proposal for their book publishing that may be approved or rejected.

Self-publishing is quite too different as the author here can plainly have his book done in more or less six months because he becomes the publisher for his books.

Control over the process
 With the traditional publishing, the author’s dream to have his book published can turn into frustration when a publishing house denies his request.

Self-publishing does the other way. An author has all the control of his book and the entire process of getting it a name in the reading market.

Costs
Being the self-publisher of your book means being an investor of your own business. So, you pay everything from printing the book or publishing it online, design, and advertising.
In contrary, you are paid by publishing houses when you opt for traditional way in publishing and only when your book will be approved for publication.

Control
With self-publishing, you have all the control for your book from the content, design, and the way you want it to be marketed and where you want it be distributed. Traditional publishing on the other hand, can end you up in despair especially when a publisher has all the reasons and excuses if they don’t want to publish your book.

Profit
Going through the traditional way of publishing, you will receive from 5% to 15% royalty for each book sold when your contract is with a huge publishing house. With self-publishing, you can receive 50% to 200% profit as a self-published author.

BookWhirl Commences the Year’s Third Quarter with a New Campaign Service

Summary: Bookwhirl Publishing begins the 3rd quarter of 2013 with the launching of the company’s Library E-Campaign Service through Library Journal.

GREEN BAY, WI (8/2/2013) — Amidst the high competition among self-published authors and busy days of Bookwhirl.com in catering every writer’s publishing needs; the self-publishing company has partnered with one of the most highly valued publications in the world: the Library Journal. This move has led the firm to come up with a distinctive book marketing service that surely enables the book and its author to be heard by the very significant people in the literary world.
Library Journal is known for its effective customization of a focused and strategic marketing package so as to fulfill authors with advertising satisfaction. Thus, advertising through the Library Journal (LJ) can easily get interest among the readers, book experts, librarians, book sellers, and other most important people in the publishing industry.

Opting for Bookwhirl’s Library E-Campaign Service is being able to experience advertising at Library Journal with your book banner that targets up to 10,000 impressions and bolder space for your book’s e-mailer to be posted on LJ’s website. This campaign has different service levels in accordance to what an author specifically needs for his book promotion including the Library E-Campaign Starter, Library E-Campaign Basic, Library E-Campaign Standard, and Library E-Campaign Deluxe. This campaign has also highlighted the Library E-Campaign Premium wherein an author gets to have an extra advantage on top of the basic promotional ads exposed on the Library Journal’s website.

Learn more about the newly launched service by visiting Library E-Campaign Service page.

Finding My Invincible Summer A Book by Muriel Vasconcellos

MURIEL VASCONCELLOS

 Finding My Invincible Summer

 

Muriel Vasconcellos shares how terribly sad news can eventually become positive and inspiring in her touching memoir, Finding My Invincible Summer.

Witness how her prognosis of six months to live becomes catalyst for discovering the secrets of being truly, joyfully alive.

She recounts her tumultuous life that included tragedy, betrayal, and corrosive guilt, and her finding love and happiness, only to be stricken with breast cancer. She thought she won that battle, but life takes another challenging turn with the wrenching loss of her soul mate and, soon afterwards, another cancer diagnosis.

Unremitting pain, physical and psychological, sends her to the depth of despair. Rather than giving up, she embarks on a courageous quest for health that includes not only her body, but also her psyche and spirit. Follow her as she discovers that all aspects of her being are woven into one tapestry. Feel the soothing calmness, joy and serenity that abide in the deep recesses of her soul as you join her in Finding My Invincible Summer.

Please visit www.murieltranslations.com for more information.

You can purchase a copy of Finding My Invincible Summer from these online bookstores:

Balboa Press

Amazon

Barnes and Noble

I Have Proof of a Higher Power: My Prophetic Dreams Predicting Real Events

Ioan Dirina

Dreams.
Do they really mean anything?

Yes, they are prophetic… And author Ioan Dirina shares his prophetic – paranormal – dreams that predict real events in the near future to offer proof of a higher power which can only know that future.

Unravel the visionary dreams that actually materialized a day later as you follow him from his school years in his native country of Romania a half century ago to the present.

The author’s dreams had already been coming true for more than a year before he realized that they were a permanent part of his consciousness, at which point he started recording them. Accompany him from Romania and Austria to the United States and the Caribbean, and see how the similarities between his dreams and his life are truly fascinating.

I Have Proof of a Higher Power: My Prophetic Dreams Predicting Real Events

The phenomena described in this book have no scientific explanation in accordance with natural laws discovered by Physics. Therefore, these dreams can only be explained as proof of existence of a supernatural entity – one that may know the future. This shows how science can bring to the conclusion that a supreme rationality really exists.

The next time you dream… know that it’s your future unfolding.

Please take a glimpse at a few free excerpts from my rare spiritual book at www.dirinaioan.com, some of which are devoted to public policy matters, meant to warn readers that our country is being invaded, and this time the enemy is already inside the gate.

In a few decades, our America will be gone forever. In its place will arise a country unrecognizable to our parents. This is the trust also of Pat Buchanan’s book “Suicide of a Superpower”. America was born a Western Christian republic, writes Buchanan, but is being transformed into a multiracial, multicultural, multilingual, multiethnic stew of a nation that has no successful precedent in the history of the world.

You can purchase a copy of I Have Proof of a Higher Power from these online bookstores: Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

or Order it at 1-800-699-6397 or fab@americanfreepress.net and wake up before is too late!