From Stephen King
to authors who haven't become household names quite
yet, authors are increasingly turning to the Internet
as a way of taking charge of their own publishing destiny.
The opportunities are vast, but also confusing: Should
you publish an e-book, a conventional print book, a
Print On Demand book, a CD-ROM, or all of the above?
What do you need to know to create an e-book? How do
you set up a website, and how can you actually get people
to visit that website? Where can you sell your books
on the web? And how can you use the Internet to generate
massive free publicity?
M. J. Rose and Angela Adair-Hoy provide the answers
to all of these questions and more. When she self-published
her first novel, Lip Service, as an e-book, M. J. Rose
became a "cyber pioneer" (PW Daily) and attracted
so much publicity that she sold the rights to a major
book club and a New York publisher. As the co-owner
of a highly successful e-book publisher, Booklocker.com,
and the publisher of Writersweekly.com, an e-magazine
featuring markets for freelance writers, Angela Adair-Hoy
also learned all of the possibilities that online publishing
could offer. Using their own experiences-combined with
insiders' tips from other authors on the web-they published
an e-book, The Secrets of Our Success, that became the
underground bible for online authors and publishers.
Now thoroughly revised and expanded,
this book is an indispensable guide to navigating the
publishing jungle from you own personal computer.
