One Writer’s Self-Publishing Experience – Videos About Writing
September 14, 2008 by Anne Wayman
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Laura Duksta sold well over 100,000 of her self-published children’s book. She has two videos that outline how she did it. One comment from me. I know you can self-publish a book for way way less than the $10,000 she quotes, so don’t lock in on that. Instead, pay attention to who she recommends in the first video and her marketing strategies in the second.
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$10,000!! She was ripped off.
Yeah, I thought so, but her marketing sure worked… which is why I posted it.
Yeah, I got that. But I couldn’t let what she paid pass without a comment. That’s just outrageous.
I’m glad she has such good suggestions on marketing and that they’ve worked for her. Those are well worth sharing. But too many people think they’re supposed to pay for the privilege of being published. That’s not the way it works! Publishers are supposed to pay authors for the right to publish their work–not the other way around.
Some self-publishers like Lulu.com offer editorial and other services for which you pay extra–but they don’t charge anywhere near $10,000. That amount is way beyond the pale.
I’m being so emphatic about this point because so many writers, desperate to be published, will go along with these schemes when they shouldn’t.
Debbi, I totally agree with you… in addition to lulu.com I also like booklocker.com – the biggies like iUniverse, etc. tend to push there extra, expensive and, imo, largely useless services.