Authors: Advice on publishing a book, please?

[Mobsta]

Inspiringly helpful and insightful replies, thanks chaps. Bookmarked.
I don't really remember writing half of my replies but look forward to checking out the gems mentioned at some point

Cheers!

[raptor600]

Grenoble said:

Talk to Derek Smith - he published on Amazon recently.

Here is the link to the Publishing page:

Publish with Amazon

[Mobsta]

raptor600 said:

Grenoble said:

Talk to Derek Smith - he published on Amazon recently.

Here is the link to the Publishing page:

Publish with Amazon

The overview sounds inviting, but I will need to write a book first

[parakitaMol.]

My husband has just self-published via Troubadour. His book is now available for pre-order on Amazon.

I'm sure he would have got it published eventually but he's a) not very patient and b) the book has a certain shelf-life as it's about a specific drug development (which moves very fast). So he wanted to get it out there.

Anyway, if you're really keen on getting it published rather than self-publishing I would recommend you get this http://www.thewritershandbook.com as he found it really useful (they are not continuing a new edition but the last one 2011 still has loads of stuff/agents/publishers).

Edited by parakitaMol. on Monday 8th April 06:42

[anonymous-user]

Its never been easier to self publish, especially in the digital space, I have published a number of technical, clinical and professional titles on a few different digital channels and have have seen some fantastic interactive ebooks including children's titles that have been created with one of the free tools
that have cropped up

iBooks Author
http://www.apple.com/uk/ibooks-author/
and on

Inkling Habitat:
https://www.inkling.com/habitat/

[LeftmostAardvark]

I just put up a separate topic here about the book that I've just published: Here and I mentioned a link to JA Konrath (who has sold over a million ebooks from self publishing - I think it is actually over a million from the Kindle store alone). He has put together a huge free document on how he went about it: http://www.jakonrath.com/writers.htm

I'm trawling through it now...