Traditional Publishing Or Self Publishing. Being Picked Vs. Picking Yourself

A true story…..

An unsolicited approach from a traditional publisher is probably what most non-fiction authors dream about. It rarely happens, and yet there it was in the form of a less than 40 character tweet. “When are you going to write a book for me?”

I had self-published my first business book Make Your Idea Matter on Kindle, and in print using Create Space just a month before. Even by traditional publishing standards (in terms of sales) it had done well.  And now here was an approach from a well respected U.S. publisher asking if I had another waiting in the wings…..it just so happened that I did…Read More.

Author Publishing His Own Success

Author Publishing His Own Success
By Ben Dunsmoor

Publishing a book can be as easy as uploading a few files.

Sioux Falls author Andy Traub has done it and has already sold thousands of digital copies of his book ‘Early to Rise.’

Thanks to the popularity of e-books an author no longer need to convince a publisher to put their book on the shelves. Traub’s book has already received reviews worldwide after he published it himself on Amazon.

“You have to pick yourself. Don’t wait for a publisher to come by and say you’re good enough, you’re smart enough, you have enough experience and you’re from the right city or state. Pick yourself,” Traub said.

That’s exactly what Traub did with ‘Early To Rise.’ He wrote it, designed a cover, and then uploaded it to Amazon in January. Since then, he’s sold six-thousand copies, netted $30,000 and wrote his family out of debt….Read More

Submit by Melody Anne

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Melody Anne (Author)
( 200+ Reviews )

Arianna Harlow has a choice. Does she choose love or self-respect? Will she give up her freedom and become nothing but a shadow of herself?

This is the exciting sequel to the NYT’s and USA Today best-selling book Surrender. In Submit, Ari faces an impossible ultimatum. She needs to decide whether to accept Raffaelo Palazzo’s indecent proposal and stay at his side as his bought mistress, under his complete control in his world and in his bedroom. Rafe holds the keys to her mother’s happiness, and Ari must choose love for her mother or respect for herself and for the morals her mother instilled in her. You’ll find out that decision in this book and discover the unexpected repercussions of what Ari does choose.

In Surrender, we were also introduced to the dynamic story of Shane Grayson and Lia Palazzo. See where their story leads as the Surrender Series continues.

Watch as two strong, confident women make choices that will affect their lives forever.

Who will submit? Will it be the women or the men?

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Melody Anne (Author)
ISBN: 978-0615822990

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Inferno by Dan Brown

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Dan Brown (Author)
( 6,300+ Reviews )

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels & Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.

In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of history’s most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces . . . Dante’s Inferno.

Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science. Drawing from Dante’s dark epic poem, Langdon races to find answers and decide whom to trust . . . before the world is irrevocably altered.

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Dan Brown (Author)
ISBN: 978-0385537858

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