{"id":14647,"date":"2010-11-30T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/?p=14647"},"modified":"2010-11-30T10:58:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-30T15:58:50","slug":"my-foray-into-self-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/2010\/11\/my-foray-into-self-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"My foray into self-publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BegMesb1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12740\" title=\"BegMesb\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shilohwalker.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/BegMesb1.jpg?resize=175%2C263\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten asked&#8230;<em>a lot<\/em>&#8230;on why I decided to go it alone with <em><strong>Beg Me<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted it before, but here ya go&#8230;\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I was curious. I only had <em>one <\/em>story out there and it was a story that had been released before.\u00a0 It was also <em>not<\/em> a long story.\u00a0 Basically, not the ideal &#8216;experiment&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>I had an idea for a book that I really wanted to write, and if I&#8217;d sent it to Samhain, it would have been a year before I could have gotten into the hands of readers&#8211;my publication schedule at Samhain got thrown off and I don&#8217;t feel like waiting a year.\u00a0 This way&#8211;I didn&#8217;t have to, you didn&#8217;t have to.<\/li>\n<li>I was at a point to where I needed to have a little more control over things.\u00a0 Despite what a lot of people outside publishing think-and even those who seem to <em>think<\/em> they have insider knowledge, writers don&#8217;t have all that much control.\u00a0 Generally, I&#8217;m good with this&#8211;giving up control isn&#8217;t my favorite thing, but giving up that control also means I have somebody who is helping me with promo, marketing, covers, editing, etc.\u00a0 But over the past few months, there was just too much that was <em>out <\/em>of my control.\u00a0 So I decided, this time&#8230;I&#8217;d control things.\u00a0 Everything about the story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much it.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not really a big secret, no big drama, no big fiasco.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t plan abandoning the publishing world for the self-publishing world.\u00a0 Self-publishing <em>is<\/em> a lot of work.<\/p>\n<p>Now you&#8217;ve got people out there who will tell you that it&#8217;s the way to riches&#8230;they&#8217;ll tell you that&#8217;s the best thing to ever happen to a writer.\u00a0 And I imagine there isn&#8217;t always complete disclosure, either. Perhaps in terms of all the time spent doing promotion.\u00a0 Perhaps in terms of the money that is spent up front.<\/p>\n<p>Money spent up front?\u00a0 On digital self pub?<\/p>\n<p><em>What?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Um.\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 If you want a professional product, you need to be willing to <em>spend money.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Where?<\/p>\n<p>Well, sometimes on promo and other various expenses, like research, etc.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;d say <em>always on covers and on edits&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Because <em>most<\/em> writers don&#8217;t make great editors.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got a self-published book that appears to be professionally edited but they didn&#8217;t hire a freelance editor, either that writer is one of the select few who <em>can<\/em> edit, or I&#8217;d have to wonder if other arrangements were made and they just aren&#8217;t discussing them. (And if that&#8217;s the case, is it really self-published?\u00a0 Or is it just <em>masquerading<\/em> as self-published&#8230;???)<\/p>\n<p>People&#8230;again&#8230;in general, writers just don&#8217;t make good editors.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t.\u00a0 So if they want a decent product out there, the smart ones are going to hire a freelance editor.<\/p>\n<p>I used not one editor, but two.<\/p>\n<p>Jen B, who charged $.005 a word.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;\">34,879 words @ $.005\/wd = <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">$174.40<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Then there was Elle C, also know as Limecello, who did editorial work and consulting, for a flat fee of $50.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a professionally rendered cover.\u00a0 You want to go the self-pubbed route and have a chance at really doing well?\u00a0 Unless you really know what you&#8217;re doing?\u00a0 And by <em>really knowing what you&#8217;re doing<\/em>, I mean <em>trained in the field<\/em>, don&#8217;t do the cover yourself.\u00a0 Go to a pro.<\/p>\n<p>I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelawatersart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Waters<\/a>, of Angela Waters Art.\u00a0 Her standard fee for cover art is $150, and that can go up depending on the stockart used. <em>But<\/em> you want a professional cover, because that cover will grab the eye and it will also make or break you as far as things like the premium catalog goes with places like Smashwords.\u00a0 Crappy, do-it-yourself covers don&#8217;t make it into that premium catalog at Smashwords as easy and that premium catalog gets the books out to the Nook, Apples iBookstore, the Sony store, Kobo, etc&#8230;all without me doing anything but placing it on Smashwords.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve spent about $350 on this book in all.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve already made more than I&#8217;ve spent so hey, I&#8217;m cool.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not <em>a lot <\/em>more.\u00a0 But I&#8217;m not greedy.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve actually already sold about as many on Smashwords &amp; 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