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    3月23日

    MORE ABOUT PUBLISHING

    OK, so I said I'd finished the publishing blogs. I changed my mind. I want to just talk with you about my experience with self publishing.
    I really wanted to use Print on Demand for THIS PRECIOUS LOVE (HTTP://drjeannehounshell.com). It would have been so much easier. BUT, I would have had to sell my book for $25.00 to earn one or two dollars. I just didn't think that would work. So I had to go looking for something that wouldn't be so pricey.
    So I self published. And as if that weren't going to be enough work, I learned that I couldn't do it in WORD. Now I had spent weeks getting it all set up in WORD just the way I wanted it to look. Now I had to learn a book design program (INDESIGN) and do it all over. I worked about 18 hours a day 6 or 7 days a week for 6 weeks to meet my printing deadline.
     
    It isn't easy. It is extremely hard work. AND it looks great! I got a really quality book at a price where I actually can sell the books to bookstores and still have a royalty for me.
     
    I am extremely proud of the job I did. Extremely proud of all I learned while writing and publishing THIS PRECIOUS LOVE. It's one of the most _________ experiences I've ever had. And I'll probably continue to publish my books this way.
     
    In summary, if you're reasonably good at the computer, willing to work very hard, and want to retain all the rights to your book, this is the way to go.
    I encourage any of my readers who have published a book, by whatever form, to contact me. I'd love to interview you or have you send me a guest blog so that my readers can get many different perspectives.
     
    Bless you,
     
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    3月15日

    RED LETTER DAY

    MARCH 11, 2007
    ONE HUGE RED LETTER DAY
     
    Our newest grandbaby joined our family.
    There is no more wonderful day in any life, than the day a healthy beautiful baby comes into our lives.
     
    Our daughter Laurie gave birth to our granddaughter on March 11. Her proud Uncle Mark sent us the first pictures o f her. To see her, go to my web site: http://drjeannehounshell.com and click on The Latest News. She's a darling.
     
    Babies are so recently come from God, they are indeed precious. I'm sure there'll be more pictures soon and when I'm back on my feet and get income tax done, we'll make our plans to go hold her in our arms.
     
    God bless her every day of her life!
     
     
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    3月7日

    PUBLISHING TIPS--SELF PUBLISHING

    PUBLISHIING TIPS--SELF PUBLISHING:

     

     


    When you self publish, you do all the work and you reap all the benefits and headaches. That's the whole long and the short of it. You keep all rights, all profits and you have no help along any stop of the way. It is not for the faint of heart and it is truly rewarding.
     
    Disadvantages:
     --It’s unbelievably hard work
     --You have to pay for it all
     --You have to obtain the ISBN number and copyright. 
     --You have to do or hire the book cover done yourself and set the book up ready to print
     --Marketing is totally up to you though many subsidy and POD publishers have packages you can buy even though you don’t publish with them—but they’re pricey!
     --It is by far the hardest way and it’s all up to you.
     
    Advantages:
     --It’s quick.  You can hold your book in your hand soon.
     --You maintain all rights and total control
     --By submitting bids to a whole bunch of companies, you can get it printed for a fraction of the cost any of the others would be so that your profit per book sold is much higher.
     --Your travel and lifestyle is pretty much deductible 
     --A new author has to do most of the marketing anyway, why not reap the benefits.
     
    If you’re going to do it, do it right.  Dan Pointer’s book:  Self Publishing is absolutely necessary.  It will take you through the steps to do it right.
     
    Book Design:
     Hire the interior design done for you or get a good book design program
      --InDesign is relatively friendly and does a good job.
      --Quart is probably the best but also VERY hard to learn.
     I recommend using one of these two.  DO NOT use WORD or Word Perfect. I'm told no self respecting bookstore will accept a book done in either of those--ony in a professional book design program.

     

    Bless you and keep writing,

     

    Dr. Jeanne


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    3月5日

    MAN GIVES HEARTFELT PRAISE FOR THIS PRECIOUS LOVE

     

    front cover master copy EMAILTHIS PRECIOUS LOVE

     
    Once in awhile we are given a gift that touches our very souls. I was given such a gift today. I’d like to share it with you.
     
    A man in my writing group had purchased my book and read it. Today he handed me this card:
     
     
    Thank You
     
     For your courage to share
         both pain and joy,
     
     for your perseverance
         in giving your book life,
     
     for your inspiration
          to motivate the shy
     
     and for your willingness
          to help us grow.
     
     The parallels in our
         Stories illuminates
            Our truth
     
     The contrasts provide
           Lessons I have not
               Lived.
     If I touch one persona as
           You have touched me,

     I will have lived
           A purpose.
     
                Thanks,
                      Erv
     
     
    Eloquent! Can’t wait to see more of his writing.
     
    So, if you think THIS PRECIOUS LOVE  is just for gals, think again. This one has a depth and breadth to touch every heart. And action enough to keep all reading.
     
    Thank you, Erv, you made my day, my week and probably my year!
     
    Bless each of you. It is feedback like this that keeps us writing.
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    3月3日

    PUBLISHING TIPS--PRINT ON DEMAND

    PUBLISHING TIPS:
                  PRINT ON DEMAND
     Print on demand has become very popular with digital printing.  You pay them to publish your book and as an order comes in, they print that number of books.  So you don’t have a garage full of books to sell.  They have promotional packages to help you sell your book. 
     
     They do not review or critique your book.  You’re paying the entire cost so they will print whatever you send them.
     They buy the ISBN number and usually take care of copyrighting.  They have people available to design your book cover and will do the interior book design for a fee.  But you may do these things yourself and send it to them.
     
     This is really what I wanted to do--use a print on demand publisher.  And I think it has great merit for shorter and nonfiction books.  But when I looked into it, if I priced my book at 25.00, I might make 1.00 or 2.00 on each book.  That’s because my book is 400 pages long and their charge to print it was very high.  I couldn’t see me just making that little after 5 years of work. That didn’t allow me to sell it to any bookstores because they require a 40% discount—so to do that I’d have to have priced it at nearly 30.00 to just get what it cost me.  And most people aren’t going to pay $30.00 for a paperback novel.
     
    For a book of 150 pages that will sell for $19.95, this is a very good alternative.
     
    For me it didn’t work.  So I had to keep looking.  And the only alternative left was to publish it ourselves.
     
    Advantages of Print on demand:
     
    Many!
    You can get it published really quickly
    Most do high quality work
    You retain all the rights
    You can choose the program that works for you
    If you want to pay for it, they'll do almost everything but write the book
     
    Disadvantages:
    High cost. You pay for it all and you pay a premium cost for each book. Check this carefully as you may have to price your book higher than you can sell it.
     
    Vanity publishing, and print on demand is considered a vanity publisher, is still looked down on by many. So there's not as much prestige as using a traditional publisher.
     
    Bless you and keep writing
     
    Dr. Jeanne
     
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    3月1日

    PUBLICITY TIPS--SUBSIDY PUBLISHERS

    SUBSIDY PUBLISHING:
     
    Subsidy publishing is a compromise between traditional publishers where the publisher pays the entire cost of getting your book in your hand and other forms where you pay for it all. In other words, the cost is split--not necessarily half and half. This differs from one company to another.
      
    Subsidy publishers do not accept all books so you will have to write a query letter and submit your manuscript. They review them but are much more likely to accept them than a traditional publisher because you pay about half the cost of publishing and promotion. Since they are spending their money, they will only accept what they think they can at least break even on.
     
    They still may demand changes and want to control your book because they have a large investment in it too. Again, the rights you will have to give up vary from company to company. If you want someone else to do the book design, deal with printers and do the publishing work and your book isn't accepted by traditional publishers, you may want to consider this route.
     
    I looked at it and it didn't make financial sense for THIS PRECIOUS LOVE.
     
    More publishing options coming soon so check back.
    Bless you and keep writing!
     
    Dr. Jeanne
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