Home

Search form

  • Home
  • Getting Started
  • Inside Publishing
    • Editing
    • Design & Production
    • Marketing & Publicity
    • Rights
    • Distribution
  • FAQs

You've Written Your Book. Now What?

Here at Self Published Author.com, we offer tools, advice, and resources to help you through the publishing process. Bowker is the official ISBN agency in the US and Australia. We're excited about authors taking the publishing process into their own hands, and we're here to help however you need it.

At Self Published Author.com, we

  • offer industry advice and perspective, giving you an inside scoop on the business
  • explore marketing tools
  • refer you to partners who can help
  • list events specifically for self-published authors

Welcome! Let's get started!

Four Simple, Free Ways to Sell More Books

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Tue Oct 3, 2023

 
Most authors with whom I speak are frustrated with their inability to get distribution to bookstores or generate any significant book sales. If you are one of them, there are four things you can do immediately to open your gateway to success. They are simple to do, cost nothing and will demonstrate to everyone in the publishing industry that you are Category Five marketing force. 
 
Inside Publishing
Marketing & Publicity
  • Read more about Four Simple, Free Ways to Sell More Books

To Sell More Books, Think Like Warren Buffett

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Tue Sep 26, 2023

How can people invest their book-marketing time, money and skills most effectively? I wanted to find the most complete and accurate answer, so I decided to consult a higher power: Warren Buffett. After all, Mr. Buffett is the ultimate value investor. I know the Oracle of Omaha is not a book marketer, but some of his investment strategies are remarkably applicable to book marketing — even if he never intended the connection. The book, The Warren Buffett Book of Investing Wisdom, edited by Robert L. Bloch, lists many Buffettisms about investing. Here are some that seemed remarkably applicable to investing in book marketing. 

Inside Publishing
Marketing & Publicity
  • Read more about To Sell More Books, Think Like Warren Buffett

Do You Have The Write Stuff?

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Tue Sep 19, 2023

Becoming a success (as you have defined it) in book publishing is more an art than a science. You can learn all the right things to do, but the application of those actions is different for every situation, person, book and target buyer. One key to moving continuously in the right direction on your path is to have a strong belief in yourself. In other words, become DEAR to yourself.

Inside Publishing
Marketing & Publicity
  • Read more about Do You Have The Write Stuff?
  • Obtain ISBNs (click here!)
  • Convert your file to ebook (click here!)
  • Acquire a bar code (click here!)
  • Increase discovery (click here!)
  • Purchase a QR code (click here!)
  • Register your copyright (click here!)
  • Find out who you write like (click here!)
  • Promote your book online (click here!)
Click here if you are from Australia
Booklife from PublishersWeekly Book Selling University

Links We Like

  • StreetLib Medium Blog
  • Authors Wish - One Platform, Many Self Publishing Solutions
  • Book Marketing Matters
  • UPU 2015 Get Discovered By the Right Readers--Keywords
  • Alliance of Independent Authors
  • Smashwords Blog
  • Learn Self Pub Fast
  • Author Marketing Experts
  • Independent Book Publishers Association
  • The Creative Penn
  • Blog at Lulu
  • Writers Digest: There Are No Rules
  • Porter Anderson
  • Writer Beware
  • The Book Designer
  • Association of Publishers for Special Sales

© 2021 R.R. Bowker LLC. All rights reserved.
Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Terms of Use |