Comments on: Wherein I find myself unable to ‘Start/Continue’ https://shepline.com/2006/03/12/wherein-i-find-myself-unable-to-startcontinue/ author | illustrator | digital designer Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:05:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Thomas https://shepline.com/2006/03/12/wherein-i-find-myself-unable-to-startcontinue/#comment-2212 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:05:33 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1306#comment-2212 In reply to veeb.

Re: publish from the kitchen table!

I have done book printing and binding in the past – most recently a couple of years ago – but I don’t think I would want to do it ‘seriously’ as a means of then saying I’m published, come and buy it.

I think if Shepline Publishing were to publish my novel, I would need them to either fork out for ‘conventional’ printing of x thousand copies, or accept that my POD books will make a loss, and think of it as dipping the toe (or should that be spine?) in the water until you can create a demand to get a load ‘conventionally’ printed.

]]> By: veeb https://shepline.com/2006/03/12/wherein-i-find-myself-unable-to-startcontinue/#comment-2211 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:41:54 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1306#comment-2211 publish from the kitchen table!

http://nomediakings.org/doityourself/doityourself_book_press.html

]]> By: dovegrey https://shepline.com/2006/03/12/wherein-i-find-myself-unable-to-startcontinue/#comment-2205 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:06:51 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/?p=1306#comment-2205 The main advantage of having a big publisher behind you, of course, is publicity and marketing. That’s the really tough part to do on your own. I think self-publishing is a great idea for local-interest books, where your target audience is right there and marketing is much less of an issue (easier to get local media and bookshops interested in something with a local angle). But with anything else, how are you going to market your novel beyond your local area?

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