Release Your Writing
Subtitle: Book Publishing, Your Way
Edition: First
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com Publishing
Published: September 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781602640603
Subjects: Creative writing guides; Language teaching & learning material & coursework; Composition & Creative Writing - General; Publishing; Language Arts & Disciplines / Publishing; Language Arts & Disciplines : Composition & Creative Writing; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language
First sentence: Publishing as an industry has grown by almost 17 percent per year since 2005, and net revenues for all books are projected to top $40.4 billion by 2010, according to The Book Industry Study Group in New York. A few companies, just five or six, control over 80 percent of the industry. Most books in bookstores come from those few firms. Only one to two percent of unsolicited submissions are purchased for publication. That’s why self-publishing and print-on-demand (POD) are projected to show continued growth and why they’ve gained acceptance as valid publishing choices.
Description: "Release Your Writing, Book Publishing, Your Way" goes beyond "how-to" books with all the information you need, whether you have:  

-- Written a book and not attracted a publisher.
-- Finished a book you need out right now, for a particular market or timely topic. 
-- Just started writing a book and need to know how to get it to market. 
-- Grown weary of shopping a book around to agents and publishers. 
-- Let your manuscript languish because the publishing process seemed so intimidating. 

But you can get published. Find out how print-on-demand can put you in control of the publishing process, and beat the long road to publishing.  

Learn strategies to get your book published, write better with your computer, and discover dozens of marketing and promotion tricks to sustain a successful book launch.
Notes: SPECIAL NOTE: Part 3 gains high praise, even from traditionally published authors, for the wealth of marketing information, especially using online marketing to keep your book alive. More info at author website: www.releaseyourwriting.com.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part 1: Getting Published; title: A Changing Publishing Industry; title: Self-Publishing; title: The POD Segment (print-on-demand); title: EBooks; title: Part 2: You, The Word Processor; title: The Time to Write; title: The Writer's Toolbox; title: Computer Power Tools; title: Part 3: Business of Being a Writer; title: Book Marketing and Promotion; title: Keep Your Book Alive; title: Appendix: Writing Resources; title: Glossary; title: Index