Smart Self-Publishing: An Author's Guide to Producing a Marketable Book, 3rd ed.

by Linda Salisbury

Smart Self-Publishing: An author's guide to producing a marketable book. (third edition) Hot tips, sound advice and publishing adventures from authors, distributors, librarians, book buyers, book reviewers, indexers. New section on e-books and print-on-demand.

A layperson's guide to producing a professional book that can be sold in the marketplace. The third edition includes even more practical information and resources to give confidence and direction to authors. Smart Self-Publishing has helped numerous authors avoid self-publishing pitfalls. It stresses creating a professional product, including editing, typography and cover design. No nonsense. Honest.

Genres: Writing

238 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1995

About the author

A graduate of Oberlin College with a degree in English, Linda is an author and journalist. Among her 16 books published to date are the award-winning Bailey Fish Adventure series (nine books so far), "Mudd Saves the Earth," a humorous environmental book for kids, and for growun-ups, "Mother's: A novel of hoarding, friending and mischief," and "But You Don't Look Funny," a collection of readers' favorites from her weekly column that spanned more than two decades.

Linda is a mother and grandmother, a former foster parent (which has shaped her children's stories), and loves to travel and boat with her husband. She reads constantly despite cats fighting for lap space. She is passionate about music and plays cello and viola at every opportunity.

Reviews

[T.M. Carper · Rating 2 out of 5]

Interesting, but unfortunately, very outdated for most self-publishers since it goes more by the old hand selling method and is more appropriate for non-fiction and memoirs than fiction.