By Shannon Yarbrough on August 8, 2009
Through August 31st, Wordclay is celebrating their two year anniversary by offering a complimentary ISBN when you preorder 10 copies or more of your book.
Posted in Announcements, Self-Publishing, Shannon Yarbrough, Wordclay | Tagged free ISBN, ISBN package, POD, print on demand company, Self-Publishing, Wordclay |
By Dan Marvin on July 10, 2009
I was excited to get my copy of Altered Life, a detective thriller from Keith Dixon. He was nice enough to send me a copy all the way across the pond and I dove into it the same day it arrived. The description on the Lulu page hooked me: ‘Altered Life transplants the attitude and pace of the American private eye story into a contemporary English setting.’
Posted in Action/Adventure, Dan Marvin, Mystery/Suspense | Tagged altered life, keith dixon, Lulu, lulu.com, mystery, POD, private eye story, thriller |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 29, 2009
This is the final week to cast your vote in our 100th Review Contest to determine which of the six books will be our 100th review on August 1st! Voting ends July 4th at midnight. Cast your vote today in the sidebar on the right side of the blog. This is also the final week [...]
Posted in Announcements, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged 100th review, book contest, free book, free book contest, POD, print on demand, self published |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 28, 2009
John Buckman is one of my favorite people. For over a year now I have been a member of and passionately promoted his website called BookMooch. BookMooch is an online book swapping community where you list books you want to give away to gain points to mooch books you want from other members. You earn more points from members who mooch books from you. The only expense is the cost to ship your own mooched books. To date, I have given away almost 80 books on BookMooch and received 62 other books I wanted to read.
Posted in Announcements, Marketing, News, Promotions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged book giveaway, book marketing, book mooch, bookmooch, free book, generosity book, john buckman, POD, POD marketing, print on demand, self published, self-published book marketing, Self-Publishing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 21, 2009
In the year 2000, I worked as an assistant manager at Bookstar in Memphis. Once a month, we scanned every book in the entire store to make sure it was shelved properly and to pull returns which were shipped back to publishers for credit. Returns are books that the home office inventory control department deem as being overstocked or slow sellers. That’s right. The life of a book on your local B&N shelf is regulated like stale pastries being rotated in a bakery. Hardcover books that are about to be released in paperback might also come up as having to be returned, which is how I came upon one book in particular one slow evening. It was a lone hardcover copy of Matthew Stadler’s Allan Stein.
Posted in Opinions, Self-Publishing, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged allan stein, clear cut press, lulu.com, matthew stadler, POD, print on demand, public, publication, publish, publishing, Self-Publishing, suddenly.org, why do we publish, why publish, why self publish |
By LK Gardner-Griffie on June 20, 2009
Here at the LL Book Review, we have reviewed a wide variety of books in a little over a year. Fiction, non-fiction, children’s and young adult, memoirs, and mysteries, to philosophical tomes that give us a new way of thinking. One thing all of the books reviewed have in common is they are all written by authors who believe in their work enough to pursue the hard road of self-publishing.
Posted in Childrens, LK Gardner-Griffie | Tagged book review, childrens books, frog books, Joshua Smith, LK Gardner-Griffie, lulu.com, misfit mccabe, POD |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 18, 2009
I’ve been following a disccusion over at the CreateSpace Community called “How Does Lightning Source Compare to Lulu and Createspace?” While the information has been very good across the board, I thought a recent post from someone called Penumbra Publishing contained a wealth of information that I’d share here…
Posted in CreateSpace, Lulu, Opinions, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, compare lulu to createspace, CreateSpace, ISBN, Lightning Source, lightning source to createspace, lightning source to lulu, lsi, Lulu, lulu and createspace, POD, print on demand book companies, print on demand books, self publish, self-publishing company |
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 June 13, 2009
Finalizing your project at CreateSpace includes filling in your checking account information if you want direct deposit and answering a few questions on what kind of “publisher” you are: business, individual, etc. If you are publishing a book, you then receive the following message.
Posted in CreateSpace, News, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon, amazon.com, CreateSpace, POD, print on demand, Self-Publishing |
By Shannon Yarbrough on June 8, 2009
What can I say? It’s been a great year for me as an author and for my book, Stealing Wishes. As many know, I’ve documented my publishing journey over the past year here as the POD Diary. From pulling my hair out while creating my own book cover over a year ago to recording every [...]
Posted in Announcements, POD Diary, Shannon Yarbrough | Tagged amazon.com, lulu.com, POD, POD author, pod book sales, POD Diary, pod journal, print on demand, Self-Publishing, self-publishing journal, Shannon Yarbrough, stealing wishes |
