Getting Down and Digital: How to Self-Publish Your Book - A Step-By-Step, No-Nonsense, No-Hype Guide to Successfully Publishing Your Book Yourse

by A.P. Fuchs

In an age of self-publishing hype and scattered sources of reliable information, it's difficult for the would-be self-publisher to learn how to properly launch their career and avoid the inevitable pitfalls the world of independent publishing is known for. Not anymore. Getting Down and How to Self-publish Your Book is by self-publishing veteran A.P. Fuchs, who has been self-publishing fiction for nearly a decade. From getting suckered in by a vanity press to learning the hard truth behind successful self-publishing, A.P. Fuchs has been through the school of hard knocks and beyond, coming out on the other side with a publishing platform that has enabled him to support his family while independently publishing fiction. In Getting Down and How to Self-publish Your Book you will the most critical lesson about self-publishing you will ever discover; a no-nonsense, non-hyped approach to desktop publishing; proper paperback and eBook formatting; book marketing strategies for on-line and off-line sales; all explained in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step format, helping you to take your finished manuscript to market with ease; paperback and eBook publishing checklists and notes section. No hype. No bologna. Just pure, honest self-publishing. If you're tired of the confusion, tired of the hype and just want a simple and concise way to properly self-publish your book and be successful at it, then Getting Down and How to Self-publish Your Book is required reading for any serious self-publisher, whether just starting out or having self-published already. ABOUT THE A.P. Fuchs is the author of many novels and short stories. His most recent books are Outlaw; Episode No. 2: Underground Crusade; Getting Down and How to Self-publish Your Book; Look, Up on the Screen! The Big Book of Superhero Movie Reviews; Canadian Collected Letters of an Underground Writer; and Redemption of the Dead, the third book in his time travel zombie trilogy. Also a cartoonist, he is known for his superhero series, The Axiom-man Saga, both in novel and comic book format.

206 pages, Paperback

First published October 9, 2013

About the author

A.P. Fuchs writes and publishes fulltime from Winnipeg, MB, and is most well known for his superhero series, The Axiom-man Saga. He spends most of his time writing about zombies and publishing books about them. His shoot em zombie novel, Blood of the Dead, is about just that and, obviously, goes without saying but hes saying it anyway.

He is also an avid movie buff and his reviews are posted at www.canisterx.com, Amazon.com/.ca.co.uk, Barnesandnoble.com, and his Myspace page at www.myspace.com/apfuchs. Likewise, movies are discussed and reviewed on Canister Xs Youtube channel at www.youtube.com/canisterx

Fuchs also writes non-fiction, Twitters a lot and writes in his blog thats here 5 to 6 days out of the week, sometimes more than once a day.

Hes also the owner and sole-proprietor of Coscom Entertainment, a publishing firm specializing in superhero and monster fiction.

Oh . . . as a few side things, he digs cooking, watching TV, making compost and following the exploits of Batgirl, Red Robin and Batman and Robin on a monthly basis.

He also has a few secrets of earth-shattering proportions, but hes not telling them now nor ever, and plans on taking them to his grave.

Reviews

[Matt Peters · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome Book! So helpful.

Fuchs cuts through all the Upload&Go hype and gives the straight-forward practical how-to info backed with humorous personal experience. He hasn't published just one book and claims to be an expert, I checked him out, he's published several of his own books and dozens of books by others!

[J.H. Moncrieff · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a lifesaver for me--I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in self-publishing. Even those who have no intention of going indie would benefit from reading it, because there are great tips on marketing your work and insight into how *all* publishers work.

Fuchs has an easy-to-follow style, and a tell-it-like-it-is manner without being rude or in your face. Reading this how-to guide made me more curious about reading his fiction, as I really enjoyed his voice.