1. Join a small publishers group. There are groups all over Canada and the United States, both at the local and the national level. Some you can interact with on the web and others hold monthly meetings. If you Google try several search terms: self-publisher, independent, small publishers. Try Yahoo’s group tab and search there as well; you’ll find some general and some specific to genre groups.
A couple of the biggies are: SPAN and IBPA both of which offer a lot of benefits for a yearly membership. Usually, if you join a smaller organization first (at a lower cost per year) you can get a reduced rate at these larger organizations—so join the smaller one first! Both SPAN and IBPA send out an excellent monthly newsletter and offer discounts with marketing, printing, distribution, shipping, etc. as well as personal benefits like group health insurance.
2. Check out related websites for newsletters and good solid information about self-publishing
Fern Reiss at The Publishing Game:
Lots of good articles and sign-up for newsletter
Pete Masterson at Aeonix Publishing Group
good articles
Marion Gropen’s blog
Blog posts that go back 2 years plus useful links
Publishing Poynter's Newsletter.
Full of tips and resources on book writing, publishing and promoting.
Book marketing tips and promotion ideas from John Kremer
Sign up for newsletter
Midwest Book Review has some great articles about book reviews
Review sites: check out the listing at The Finishers website
Publishing reference books: listing at the Finishers website: The Finishers.biz
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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