By Shannon Yarbrough on June 17, 2009
Remember, Wordclay is offering a Summer Publishing Package that saves you 15 percent on services, but it’s only available until June 30. Publish under the Wordclay imprint for $465.00 ($547.00 value) or under your own personal imprint for $495.00 ($583.00 value).
Posted in Announcements, Shannon Yarbrough, Wordclay | Tagged book, book deal, book publishing deal, POD, print on demand, publishing, summer deal, summer publishing, Wordclay, wordclay summer |
By Shannon Yarbrough on October 22, 2008
Loyal readers may notice The POD Diary tab has been removed from the top of the page. This is a detailed journal I’ve been keeping since earlier this year concerning my own recent self-publishing journey. If you have enjoyed the journal, don’t worry. It’s not gone completely. You can still find it under the list of Pages on the left column of the blog.
Posted in Announcements, POD Diary, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book, book blog, book travels, Fiction, lulu book review, POD, POD books, POD Diary, read |
By Shannon Yarbrough on September 27, 2008
Mark Long of the TSTC Publishing’s Book Business Blog has written a very detailed article about my POD Diary. He calls it “the absolutely epic saga—equally fascinating and heartwrenching—of Shannon Yarbrough self publishing his novel Stealing Wishes through an online POD publisher.” Wow! What a compliment!
Posted in POD Diary, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book, book marketing, Getting Published, Lulu, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu.com, POD, POD Diary, print on demand, publishing services, Self-Publishing, Shannon Yarbrough, stealing wishes, tstc publishing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on August 9, 2008
Since the LLBR has just reached its 5 month birthday, and will hit 9,000 visitors this weekend, we think this calls for a celebration! We’ve been itching to have a contest and give away books so here we go…
Posted in Announcements, Marketing, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged 1001 ways to market your books, book, book contest, book marketing, contest, free book, john kremer, lulu book review, lulu.com, Marketing, POD, print on demand, Self-Publishing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on July 11, 2008
If you’ve been reading the POD Diary, then you know I recently purchased an awesome program called Book Cover Pro which I used to design the cover of my own book. I decided to post an ad in the Lulu forum and offer my services to others who are in need of help with their book covers.
Posted in Marketing, POD Diary, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book, book review, fantasy, Lulu book, lulu book review, lulu books, lulu.com, POD, science fiction, vampire |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 28, 2008
Are there any readers out there in the DC area? If so, jump in the car this weekend and find a bookstore called Olsson’s Books. They need your help! They are filing for Chapter 11 due to a decline in sales.
Posted in Announcements, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book, bookstore closing, independent, independent bookstore, Olsson, Olsson's Books, save the bookstore, Washington DC |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 3, 2008
Mark, a Lulu engineer, has been making the rounds, recently commenting on my previous post and also commenting on Veinglory’s recent remarks concerning Lulu over at Podpeep.
Posted in Announcements, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book, books, Fiction, Lulu, lulu.com, POD, podpeep, print on demand, writer, writers, writing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on April 2, 2008
Based on sketchy information posted in the Lulu Forums, it looks like Lulu.com has probably agreed to Amazon’s ultimatum. Due to the fees I’m sure Amazon will be slapping publishers with for having to use its Booksurge printing services, we can probably look forward to increased fees to be passed on to users as well. I chatted with a Lulu representative today through their online chat support hoping to get some info for you, but was pretty much given “blanket” information that anyone would already be privy to.
Posted in Announcements, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged abebooks, amazon, amazon.com, angela hoy, B&N, barnes and noble, bob young, book, books, bookstore, bookstores, booksurge, Lulu, lulu.com, POD, print on demand, writer's weekly |
By Shannon Yarbrough on March 31, 2008
Thanks to Veinglory over at PodPeep again for bringing this letter from Amazon to our attention in regards to the recent matter addressed in my previous post about Amazon monopolizing the POD printing industry by requiring all POD publishers to use their BookSurge company for printing or the BUY button of their books would be taken down.
Posted in Announcements, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged abebooks, amazon, amazon.com, angela hoy, B&N, barnes and noble, bob young, book, books, bookstore, bookstores, booksurge, Lulu, lulu.com, POD, print on demand |
By Shannon Yarbrough on March 28, 2008
Although I had already planned to blog about it when I got home from work today , and I’m sure most of you have heard about it by now, per Veinglory’s request I’d like to voice a bit of my outrage about Amazon’s recent approach to Publish America to use Booksurge as a printing source or else! Or else what? Or else the BUY buttons would be removed from the PA books on Amazon.com and the books would only be available through third party sellers.
Posted in Announcements, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged abebooks, amazon, amazon.com, angela hoy, B&N, barnes and noble, bob young, book, books, bookstore, bookstores, booksurge, Lulu, lulu.com, POD, print on demand |
