![]() Step Six: Tell your friends on social media and your family and your email list you have a new book out, promote it on your own web site, and get back to writing the next book. You now have an ebook selling around the world. OnD2D you also send your book to iBooks, B&N, and a bunch of other places around the world. ![]() Then load your book from Vellum into the three places. Step Five: Get accounts set up on Amazon, Kobo, and Draft to Digital. (Never commission an artist to do it for you, or use your neighbor’s kid’s art. Get the cover art from a royalty free site for $5 or less. Step Four: Find some covers you really like on bestsellers in your genre and then using InDesign, imitate them. This creates an ePub that is ready, among other files. You have looked at other books to know what look you like for title, headers, and so on, so you can pick the right options in Vellum to make your book look good. Step Two: You get your book back and put in the corrections you agree with from the copyeditor. (Short stories just stay with a friend or read it aloud to yourself to find the mistakes.) (Above that caution!) You pay this person with a business check from your business account only after they send back the book. The price can range from free (a friend) to $200. Step One: Get your novel to a copyeditor. ![]() (You do not need beta readers, just one trusted first reader to find typos.) So What Are The Real Costs of Indie Publishing a Book? Those have gone the way of the Dodo Bird, are nw mostly scams, and besides, you should grow a backbone and believe in your own work.Īssumption #3… You are going to write three or four books a year and a number of short stories AT LEAST and thus pay for Adobe InDesign at $20.99 per month to make the fee worthwhile.Īssumption #4… You have spent a one-time fee of $249 to buy Vellum to format your books. This can be a good friend, someone you hired at your library or local college, or someone you hire online who won’t rewrite you.Īssumption #2… You do not need a book or content editor. Let me make a couple of assumptions clear first.Īssumption #1… For novels you must have copyeditor, someone who finds typos in your work. So let me detail out the costs here as clear as I can. Remember, there are always people trying to stop you. Silly myth, but it is pushed hard by traditional publishing and by those who want to sell all their rights and let traditional publishing keep all their money.Īnd it is pushed by just not knowing or getting information from the wrong sources. The Myth: Indie Publishing Costs a Lot to Do…
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