Part of the Learning Process
To any and all authors of published or about to be published ebooks:
I have to say as being a writer for quite some time now, that I have learned a lot of hard lessons of what NOT to do in my process. This is not one of those lessons. I am fortunate enough to say that I landed on a good tactic on my own, without trying several different options in the same aspect of marketing one of my works.
As I'm sure you already know, I'm hosting a giveaway of Life of Death, one of my earlier works that I recently re-published in ebook format. Upon entering multiple giveaways here on goodreads and watching the market to see who is entering, what titles are getting more hits than others, et cetera, I decided to give it a go.
Of course, goodreads does not allow ebooks to be given away and with good reason. So, the first thing I needed was print copies of the book. Naturally, I began doing some research on print companies and compared, contrasted, and made my lists of the most beneficial printer for how quick and cost efficient I wanted my project to be.
I stumbled upon 48hourbooks.com, a website that claims to have professionally bound books back to the author in less than a week (granted there was formatting and a full book cover to design) but once I had everything in place, followed their formatting instructions and hit "submit", I opened up my printed book less than a week later.
The formatting instructions were simpler and easier than self formatting your own ebook. The cover design was up to my discretion and 48hourbooks even provided a template to copy and paste my manuscript into. A few clicks and moves later, I was ready to submit.
I am by no means advertising for this company, I am merely expressing my gratitude for the professionalism and vast quickness they gave my work. Even though I had a small order (minimum of 10 prints), they were responsive to my questions via email and didn't give me any run around like I was expecting.
Granted, the cost of these paperback is not cost effective enough to sell the book at a competitive price and still profit, but for less than $200 I had a great looking book in my hands that would surpass my expectations of handing it to one of the winners of the giveaway posted here on goodreads.
I hope this post serves you well and helping you with your writing and marketing process. If you have been doing this on your own for a while, you already know tha there are no "guarantees" of what will work and will not work. This particular post is to show my excitement that I did not have to do a trial and error run, waste hundreds of dollars to get something rolling quickly.
Again, I want to thank you for reading, and if you get a chance, check out my giveaway and add to your 'to reads' list.
Nicholas McGirr
Life of Death
I have to say as being a writer for quite some time now, that I have learned a lot of hard lessons of what NOT to do in my process. This is not one of those lessons. I am fortunate enough to say that I landed on a good tactic on my own, without trying several different options in the same aspect of marketing one of my works.
As I'm sure you already know, I'm hosting a giveaway of Life of Death, one of my earlier works that I recently re-published in ebook format. Upon entering multiple giveaways here on goodreads and watching the market to see who is entering, what titles are getting more hits than others, et cetera, I decided to give it a go.
Of course, goodreads does not allow ebooks to be given away and with good reason. So, the first thing I needed was print copies of the book. Naturally, I began doing some research on print companies and compared, contrasted, and made my lists of the most beneficial printer for how quick and cost efficient I wanted my project to be.
I stumbled upon 48hourbooks.com, a website that claims to have professionally bound books back to the author in less than a week (granted there was formatting and a full book cover to design) but once I had everything in place, followed their formatting instructions and hit "submit", I opened up my printed book less than a week later.
The formatting instructions were simpler and easier than self formatting your own ebook. The cover design was up to my discretion and 48hourbooks even provided a template to copy and paste my manuscript into. A few clicks and moves later, I was ready to submit.
I am by no means advertising for this company, I am merely expressing my gratitude for the professionalism and vast quickness they gave my work. Even though I had a small order (minimum of 10 prints), they were responsive to my questions via email and didn't give me any run around like I was expecting.
Granted, the cost of these paperback is not cost effective enough to sell the book at a competitive price and still profit, but for less than $200 I had a great looking book in my hands that would surpass my expectations of handing it to one of the winners of the giveaway posted here on goodreads.
I hope this post serves you well and helping you with your writing and marketing process. If you have been doing this on your own for a while, you already know tha there are no "guarantees" of what will work and will not work. This particular post is to show my excitement that I did not have to do a trial and error run, waste hundreds of dollars to get something rolling quickly.
Again, I want to thank you for reading, and if you get a chance, check out my giveaway and add to your 'to reads' list.
Nicholas McGirr
Life of Death
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