When you decide to self-publish, you've committed yourself to becoming the publisher of your book. Publishers do a lot of things. Here's a partial...
Book Publishing
Getting published is not the goal
I've been looking at some other writing coach's websites this morning and I noticed that many of them treat "getting published" or "seeing your book...
What will books look like in ten years?
Jim Blasingame always asks me good questions. When I was on his show last Friday, the big question was: "What's the new definition of a book?" The...
Don’t rush to publish
A couple of weeks back, I had an Options Review Session with someone who wanted to publish a book. He's written the 12,000 word manuscript in a...
Mark Schaefer’s Advice on Publishing a Book
McGraw-Hill has just published Mark Schaefer's book, Return On Influence: The Revolutionary Power of Klout, Social Scoring, and Influence Marketing....
CDs, Business Books, and You
Dan was excited. He convinced his whole family to give him Amazon gift cards for Christmas. He was going to use those cards to buy books for his new...
The Once and Future Book
The Printing Revolution changed more than the way that books were produced. We can get an idea of how things will change in our immediate future by...
The more things change …
I love poking around in "antique" stores. I was doing just that in a giant, barnlike structure in Southern Virginia. I asked the proprietor if he...
Publishing Your Book: Get Samples
The self-publishing boom resulted in an explosion of firms that claim they can do a good job of producing your business book. Many of them can. Many...