The last three days I've been talking about how to start thinking of yourself as an author and how to live that lifestyle. Today and tomorro we get down to the tactical business of publishing and promoting your book(s).
When I finished my manuscript I started Googling different ways to publish and promote what I had created. I quickly realized there was a ton out there and my challenge was not so much to find options, but to figure out what option to choose that would work the best for me. I didn't have a lot of spare time, and I didn't have a huge budget to do it. I had a few hundred dollars and my evenings and weekends.
But then I found Carla King, the author of Self-Publishing Bootcamp and leader of a workshop series by the same name.
She straight-up says on her website:
"My mission is to save you a lot of time and money spent in experimentation, bad choices, and dead ends by recommending a path suited to you using the most effective processes and the most reputable providers."
-- Carla King
Now we're talking! I signed up and went and it changed everything for me. Carla walked me and the other ten or so people in the room through the options and made recommendations of what tools to use for writing, editing, publishing, and promoting my book, as well as a good idea about how to use them. Here's what I said after taking her course:
"Take this Boot camp! Self-Publishing Boot Camp saved me many hours of research and countless mistakes I would have made." -- Scott James (Me)
But if you're not in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can't take the workshop. If that's the case, buy the book. Carla's book is the best guide I've found for straightforward, good advice. It's a roadmap about how to publish a book on your own. And at just $14.95 it's a total steal.
The thing that makes it so good is that she tells you what works, why it works, and how to use it. Then she tells you what she recommends not using and why. It is a stellar introduction to the landscape packed with actionable bullet points and to do list suggestions. I took this workshop and it's how I took my own book from rough draft to published paperback in about 6 months (obviously your timeline will vary :)
Have you checked out this book? What did you think?
Image source: SelfPubBootcamp.com
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