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New Book Tells Aspiring Authors: Forget the Publisher, Do It YourselfATLANTA, GA, September 7, 2006 – Landing a publisher has never been more difficult. Yet, seeing one’s labor of love in print remains a dream for so many, even if it’s achieved by so few. But a new book, The Well-Fed Self-Publisher: How to Turn One Book into a Full-Time Living, offers up another option to the legions of authors brooding over stacks of publishing company rejection letters. Its message: Publish it yourself and make a living from it. Author Peter Bowerman, who wrote the 2000 Book-of-the-Month title, The Well-Fed Writer, and its 2005 companion, TWFW: Back For Seconds (www.wellfedwriter.com), self-published both books. His commercial success – a full-time living for five-plus years – inspired the current title. Bowerman sees several distinct advantages to self-publishing, observing, “Authors who beat today’s near-lottery odds and actually land a publisher can count on anemic royalty rates, 18-24 months to publication, and giving up the rights to their babies. And they’ll still be expected to do most of the marketing themselves! With self-publishing, yes, you handle the marketing, but you stay in control of the process and timetable, while keeping the rights and most of the money.” He’s quick to add that, by “self-publishing,” he doesn’t mean that offered by “print-on-demand” (POD) companies. “POD,” he notes, “is simply a technology, not a ‘revolution’. The field is rife with hype, but when you sort through it all, it offers little potential for real profitability.” According to Bowerman, self-publishing means, “doing everything a publisher would do. Yes, a big job, but there are countless tools and strategies to simplify those tasks. Add in the Internet for marketing and promotion, and you can achieve a ‘playing-field-leveling’ degree of productivity and efficiency between you and bigger publishers that earlier generations could only dream of.” Indeed, Bowerman asserts a self-publisher can best a publisher in virtually every aspect of the process, especially marketing. “While a publisher is limited in personnel and resources,” he says, “a self-publisher can craft the optimal marketing plan for their book.” Speaking of which, Bowerman has also released a companion resource to simplify the marketing process. The Well-Fed SP Biz-in-a-Box, says Bowerman, “is a 100-page ‘spell-it-all-out’ ebook compilation of virtually every piece of marketing material created in the course of my book promo campaign. I’m guessing it might just save a little time, money, and aggravation.” ### Media: Contact author for interviews and review copies. Visit www.wellfedsp.com (Attn: Media link for media resources) for sample chapter, contents, testimonials, and more. Both books (and earlier titles) available through the web site, bookstores and on Amazon.com. |
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