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Aug 22, 2016 05:16AM
Well it looks like my publisher has gone belly up and will no longer be able to publish my titles any longer. You won’t be able to buy Timberwolf or Breacher on Amazon or any of the other sites on which they are sold. Especially bummed as I am halfway through a really special novella called MACHINE THERAPY. If you’ve read the books, you probably have a really good idea of what that’s about just by the title. It was coming out awesome and I hope to finish it soon for my own satisfaction. BUT NEVER FEAR!!!! I will be getting the rights back to all my work and will have complete control over what I do with my books in the future. I am currently looking to find Twolf, General Gray, Dr. Tier, Salla Birdwing and all your favorite alien hunting zealots a new home. There’s been a few bites already, so hopefully we’ll rig up and break atmo again soon. Best - Tom
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It's always traumatic when you find a home and it gets snatched away from you. But your options nowadays are so much better than they were thirty, or even twenty, years ago. You're getting your rights back, so you're in a great position. If you want to find another publisher, best of luck to you. But there's always Amazon Digital, Smashwords, CreateSpace, D2D, and a host of other avenues. Shed what tears you must, then steady your resolve and march forrward again.
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Bummer :-( It looked like you were just beginning to build up a bit of momentum with those titles. Do what you can to get your rights back quickly before they sell your contract off to somebody else (though if they're pulling it down from the distributors, most contracts would consider that a breach).If you can, negotiate to get the rights to your existing book covers as they are nice. Sometimes they'll just let you have it, other times you'll have to pay them something.
And then, just upload them to the distributors yourself. There's a steep learning curve involved with formatting, but it's not that difficult. It's just lots of tedious, fiddly little things.
Anna wrote: "Bummer :-( It looked like you were just beginning to build up a bit of momentum with those titles. Do what you can to get your rights back quickly before they sell your contract off to somebody els..."The Indy route is tough, but there's plenty of help out there - for a price of course. Joe Friedlander has a site where he sells book templates that has all the formatting taken care of. All you do is copy and paste yours into the template. He has them for both EBooks and print. And there are companies - Ingram Spark, Amazon, and Bookbaby comes to mind - that will handle the distribution and sales end. So if you decide to go this route there are lots of resources.
F.D. wrote: "Anna wrote: "Bummer :-( It looked like you were just beginning to build up a bit of momentum with those titles. Do what you can to get your rights back quickly before they sell your contract off to..."thank you - lucky for me i am getting the electronic files from my publisher. i always kept good relations with them, even when things weren't so hot. so they are really excited to see me succeed going forward.
Tom wrote: "F.D. wrote: "Anna wrote: "Bummer :-( It looked like you were just beginning to build up a bit of momentum with those titles. Do what you can to get your rights back quickly before they sell your co..."Let me make a correction to a name: Joel Friedlander and here's a link to one of his sites. http://authortoolkits.com/
Good luck with whatever direction you decide.
Or...You can download the Smashwords Style Guide and learn how to format your own ebooks to upload most ebookstores, or if you want to color outside the lines, you can use Jutoh or Scrivener to take the next step and get fancy, or if you want to get super-fancy and own Adobe InDesign you can go right to IngramSpark.
Smashwords Style Guide *FREE* (how to format your source-document) - https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/52
Createspace has free templates right on their website to format up your Print On Demand edition. No need to pay for templates.
Createspace POD templates *FREE* - https://forums.createspace.com/en/com...
If you want to convert your own ebooks, I use Jutoh and it's inexpensive (one time $49 fee / great customer support):
Converting an ebook using Jutoh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3lvh...
And if you want to go right to IngramSpark and own Adobe InDesign, you can learn how to format a nice print and ebook edition with a $10 per month subscription at Udemy, SkillShare or Lynda.com. I like the SkillShare version:
Formatting Print book with InDesign - https://www.skillshare.com/classes/de...
One of the biggest advantages indie authors have is the ability to change up their own books, covers, interiors, and next book blurbs to suit their needs.
Anna wrote: "Or...You can download the Smashwords Style Guide and learn how to format your own ebooks to upload most ebookstores, or if you want to color outside the lines, you can use Jutoh or Scrivener to t..."
What are you doing, Anna?! You just gave away a university education and all our professional secrets for free!!! Next thing you know you'll be telling people about the secret handshake. You could be drummed out of the Indie Union if you keep being so helpful.
Stephen wrote: "What are you doing, Anna?! You just gave away a university education and all our professional secrets for free!!! ..."I can't help it. The lawyer in me doesn't like to see people get taken to the cleaners :-)
I don't need no style guide - I AM style.......But I bookmarked it anyway.
thank you all for this amazing advice! when i get back from vacation, I'll be soaking this all in.
Hi team - have had some distractions - family and work - and a I'm getting back in to trying to find a new publisher in earnest. I had a voice over artist record my favorite chapter of my book as a sort of calling card. I think he did a great job - let me know what you think!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSmsa...
Hi team - it's been a while since I posted to this thread, and I know you have all been on pins and needles about the situation of my book, but I decided to self-publish! My books is now available here:https://www.amazon.com/Timberwolf-Tom...
I would love to get your feelings on my blurb, cover, etc!
And if someone wanted to buy the book, it's less than a cup of coffee and I totally wouldn't stop you.
