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    Self-Taught Self-Publishing: A Beginner's Guide to the Brave New World of Publishing
    Self-Taught Self-Publishing: A Beginner's Guide to the Brave New World of Publishing
    Self-Taught Self-Publishing: A Beginner's Guide to the Brave New World of Publishing
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    Self-Taught Self-Publishing: A Beginner's Guide to the Brave New World of Publishing

    By Erin M. Klitzke

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    This guide provides formatting tips to make your life easier, a reference guide to the differences in formatting you'll need for different distributers, the caveats to publishing a print edition, and more.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErin M. Klitzke
    Release dateJul 13, 2013
    ISBN9781301567997
    Self-Taught Self-Publishing: A Beginner's Guide to the Brave New World of Publishing
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    Erin M. Klitzke

    Erin M. Klitzke has been writing since she was an adolescent, though most of those early works will never see the light of day. She got her BA in history and anthropology from Grand Valley State University and her MA in history from Oakland University, and much to her mother’s occasional dismay, what she does with those degrees is write fiction. She lives in Detroit’s northern suburbs and enjoys reading, sewing, gaming, and renaissance festivals when she’s not creating her own worlds. You can find her on the web at www.embklitzke.com, e-mail her at doc (at) embklitzke (dot) com, and follow her on Twitter at @EMBKDoc.

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      Self-Taught Self-Publishing - Erin M. Klitzke

      Self-Taught Self-Publishing:

      A Beginner’s Guide to the Brave New World of Publishing

      By

      Erin Klitzke

      Smashwords edition

      Taliesin Ambrose Books

      Copyright © 2013 Erin M. Klitzke

      Disclaimer and Copyright

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or distributed to other people without providing compensation to the author. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person you share it with. If you’re reading this book and didn’t purchase it, or did not purchase it for your own personal use, please consider heading to your favorite ebook retailer and picking up your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      Published by Taliesin Ambrose Books

      Troy, MI 48083

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission from the author except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

      Cover design by Erin M. Klitzke. Stock art from Dreamstime.com. Components used with permission.

      Current version: 1.0

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Recommended Reading

      Advantages to Self-Publishing

      Ebooks vs. Paper Books: One or Both?

      General Formatting

      Covers Matter

      The Dreaded Blurb

      Slow your roll: First readers, proofreading, and editing

      Formatting for Ebooks

      Publishing your Ebook

      Formatting and caveats for your print edition

      Tell the World

      Final Thoughts

      Acknowledgements

      Other Books by Erin M. Klitzke

      Introduction

      When I went to the Desert Nights, Rising Stars writing conference at ASU in 2013, the inevitable question that arose whenever I mentioned that I had taken the self-publishing/indie publishing route for my work was How did you do it? or Where did you learn to do that?

      The answer is pretty simple: the Internet.

      This ebook is built on what I’ve learned from research and learning through trial and error. I started down the road as an independently publishing author in 2011. My road started comparatively late for a lot of people who have been doing this for a long time--I didn't really start down the indie pub route until 2011, so by that time there was a wealth of resources for me to draw from. Why is that? Because there were a lot of blogs out there from some fairly big names (well, okay, I had heard of several of them, at least, but I'm a huge nerd) that were talking about it.

      Back in early 2011, I was screwing my head back on straight after the long, arduous and abruptly truncated work of writing and defending my Master's thesis. I had suffered every graduate student’s nightmare: my advisor passed away in the middle of my project and all of a sudden I realized I did not have very much time to finish under my new team--six weeks from very rough draft to finished 200-page historical study. This is not an experience I would wish on anyone and I do not recommend it as a route toward advanced scholarship.

      Once I had finished this massive project, however, I suddenly found myself with a great deal more time than I had before. My system of time management had changed due to working

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