Comments on: Self-publish or perish? http://www.povbootcamp.com/self-publish-or-perish/ Helping you whip flabby novel manuscripts into shape Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:17:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Andrea Graham http://www.povbootcamp.com/self-publish-or-perish/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Andrea Graham Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:34:10 +0000 http://www.povbootcamp.com/?p=188#comment-27 Congrats, Mary Ann! I know that took a lot of hard work. And thank you! Reading your published work varies by author. Some quite enjoy it; others are driven nuts by the errors that can slip past even an entire team of editors. Unless you do a second edition or re-release, there isn't any opportunity to fix them, either, no. Though, I will say that is one of the few benefits of using a POD press. Since you only print a book when it's actually ordered, it becomes possible to easily revise after the fact and some if not most POD presses offer that feature. A major downside is most POD presses don't accept returns, and that's vital to getting your book into brick and mortar stores. In Christ's Service, Andrea Graham Congrats, Mary Ann! I know that took a lot of hard work. And thank you!

Reading your published work varies by author. Some quite enjoy it; others are driven nuts by the errors that can slip past even an entire team of editors. Unless you do a second edition or re-release, there isn’t any opportunity to fix them, either, no. Though, I will say that is one of the few benefits of using a POD press. Since you only print a book when it’s actually ordered, it becomes possible to easily revise after the fact and some if not most POD presses offer that feature.

A major downside is most POD presses don’t accept returns, and that’s vital to getting your book into brick and mortar stores.

In Christ’s Service,
Andrea Graham

]]> By: Mary Ann Nusbaum http://www.povbootcamp.com/self-publish-or-perish/comment-page-1/#comment-26 Mary Ann Nusbaum Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:10:31 +0000 http://www.povbootcamp.com/?p=188#comment-26 We picked a Print on Demand (POD) publisher because of getting discouraged at finding an editor. Now we are doing promotion and sales which is a different type of task than revising the book again (wasn't it Tolstoy who said, never read your book again--you'll just want to change it.) I did not realize at the time, but what you say is true: there is a wide variation in quality in the print-for-money houses which causes some people to discount you right away. We have achieved Editor's choice and Reader's choice which insinuates some level of quality (and number of sales) and we are continuing to plug along at promotion of our Christian suspense novel, The Last Reunion (reviews available on amazon dot com). This is my first visit to your blog. It looks quite good. Sincerely, Mary Ann Nusbaum We picked a Print on Demand (POD) publisher because of getting discouraged at finding an editor. Now we are doing promotion and sales which is a different type of task than revising the book again (wasn’t it Tolstoy who said, never read your book again–you’ll just want to change it.)
I did not realize at the time, but what you say is true: there is a wide variation in quality in the print-for-money houses which causes some people to discount you right away. We have achieved Editor’s choice and Reader’s choice which insinuates some level of quality (and number of sales) and we are continuing to plug along at promotion of our Christian suspense novel, The Last Reunion (reviews available on amazon dot com).
This is my first visit to your blog. It looks quite good.
Sincerely, Mary Ann Nusbaum

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