Self-Publishing For Dummies
Chapter One
Welcome to Self-Publishing!
In This Chapter
* Determining whether self-publishing is right for you
* Creating and editing your manuscript
* Diving into administration and design tasks
* Choosing the right printing option
* Distributing and promoting your new book
* Checking out a brief self-publishing timeline
Do you have expertise that other people can benefit from? Do you want
to share an amazing story? Do you have basic writing skills and a good
command of the English language? Do you have the discipline to write a full-length
manuscript? If you answered yes to at least two of these questions,
you may have the "write stuff" to become a published author. But there's one
problem: Many major book publishing companies aren't willing to work with
first-time authors with little or no writing experience. In the past, this fact
could've kept you from achieving your dream of becoming a published
author but not anymore!
Thanks to new digital printing technologies anyone with good writing skills
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