The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing

About The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing

Take Control of Your Destiny!

Bottom line: You want to get published. You want to control the future of your manuscript and your writing career.

Best-selling author Marilyn Ross and publishing expert Sue Collier show you how to make your own success – whether you’re a published author, entrepreneur, corporation, professional, or absolute newcomer to writing. In this expanded and completely revised 5th edition of the “bible” of self-publishing (over 100,000 copies sold), they empower you to publish your own work with minimal risk and maximum profits.

You’ll find:

   • Complete step-by-step guidance on publishing and marketing a book
   • Ways to leverage social media marketing to build your platform and make yourself stand out from the crowd
   • A thorough explanation of the difference between POD self-publishing, subsidy publishing, and true self-publishing – and how to decide which is the best option for you
   • Practical advice on making the decision between offset printing and print-on-demand
   • How to leverage the Internet to create “buzz” and promote your book with killer PR
   • The latest information on e-publishing
   • A detailed marketing plan and timetable to keep you on track
   • Proven marketing strategies to get free publicity, reach nontraditional buyers, and sell books
   • Information-packed appendices with marketing contacts, organizations, and vendors, complete with names, addresses, and websites
   • Valuable case studies and examples of how other publishers excel
   • An in-depth discussion of exclusive distributors, plus coverage of the most recent changes in bookstores and the book-selling industry
   • Thirty-one creative ideas for generating capital to launch your publishing company


The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing is the one book you need to take control of your writing career.

Read it. Believe it. Do it.

Your future depends on it.