I’ve known for a while I was going to eventually form an indie publishing house – if not for other people, for my own sake. The tentative plan was to get things going after the first of the year, then to take it live circa May 2019.
Yeahhh… about that time frame…
I’ve just contracted with an author who’s got a seven-book series in progress, and I see the light at the end of the tunnel on my own books. I may yet get my three novels live by year-end, plus have a comedy-cozy-murder short to follow. Part two of my dragonspiel is some 30K words in, as well. One of my author friends already pulled down $5K in her first month, with her first book. Another just dropped a short on Amazon and hit #10 overall with it within the first week.
I’ve got a dedicated editor on retainer and have a few dozen expert cover designers at my disposal. Getting print copies is simple enough.
I got connections, I tell ya.
A few days ago I dropped a few hundred bucks on a package of ISBNs and am building the website on sweetmountainpress.com, though I’m so exhausted I’m cross-eyed. I still have to write TOS and submission guidelines, along with getting publisher accounts setup on Amazon, B&N, Apple, etc.
In other words, my publishing company was born premature. Anybody got a bottle?
Not a baby bottle. Wine. For me.
So, I was have a book that will be edited in the new year and it has a ISBN number through Createspace, am I obligated to publish with them? I’m thinking it might be better to try your new indie publishing house. My other books that have been made available through Createspace via Amazon.com are still there but not making much progress as I don’t really advertise.
Any advice….
CreateSpace is dissolving anyway – it’s being absorbed by KDP. If I publish your book it will still be print and still available through Amazon, but we’ll also submit to Apple, Barnes & Noble, etc. It’ll go through our editor and we’ll provide the cover design, formatting, and ISBN. It has to go through the same submission process as one from anybody else; I have a team of three people who approve it before it ever gets as far as me.
However, I know you can write – you’ve got a nice, folksy style unlike most of my fellow writers, so it might just fly 🙂
Thanks for the info. Do you have a specific format you want the manuscript to be sent to you. Inquiring minds needs to know! LOL.
MS Word is fine. That lets my editor send back comments and suggestions easily through the comments function
Will you handle promotions, AMS ads, Facebook ads etc for an author? Do you list your revenue split anywhere? Thanks!
I’m literally still working out some of the details. We’ll probably do some promos but will always encourage our authors to do the same. I’m trying to figure out an equitable split now, so everybody wins.
Thanks Leilani. I’ll look for future posts on this.
Sandy 🙂
I’m not questioning your judgement, but…don’t you want something stronger than wine?
Just give the word.
🙂
I’m a lightweight. Wine is already pushing it. However, if and when you get ready to publish your memoirs and musings, I’ll probably be able to make room for you. I know people in this operation 😉
Hmmm.
Maybe if there’s a wine incentive….
There’s a “money-to-buy-wine” incentive.
My god. Could that really work??
Yes. I can vouch from personal experience. With money you can indeed buy wine. And porn.
Huh. This is passing odd. I got an email saying you’d replied (money can buy porn!!), but nothing is showing up on your site. Did you have a rare moment of regret, and delete it?
Nope, not regret. It was showing up for me but YOUR comment wasn’t showing up. I’d changed the settings for comments. It was supposed to let them go ten deep per thread (reply to reply etc.). Guess while you could reply to them, you couldn’t see them.
Ah. Got it. Thanks 🙂