Self-Publishing: The Total Beginner's Guide

by Gordon Lawrie

The Total Beginner's Guide aims to provide would-be writers with all of the tools necessary to publish their own work. It looks the motivation for the writing process itself and the writer's needs; the editing and proofreading process; typesetting; self-publishing administration; book covers; paperbacks, hardbacks and ebooks; marketing; dealing with booksellers and wholesalers; organising book launches and author events; and what writers should do next. The book is primarily intended to be distributed as an ebook, and it is anticipated that new editions will appear in response to readers' requests for assistance in areas not fully covered here. Above all, though, it will be cheap. Every reader should get something from reading it.

380 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 8, 2020

About the author

Born in 1952, Gordon Lawrie taught Modern Studies - that's politics in Scotland - for 36 years in an Edinburgh secondary school, writing occasionally for educational magazines or in political science journals. Then he saw the light... and tried his hand at writing a novel or two, coming up with Four Old Geezers And A Valkyrie at the turn of 2012. Since then, he's written three further novels, the latest of which is The Midnight Visitor(2022).

Today he lives in Edinburgh city centre. Although the stories are not autobiographical, he's in danger of turning into the rather sad central character in Four Old Geezers...

2023 sees the arrival of Grace Notes, a collection of twenty short stories.