Publishing a Book?

[Sully]

Mrs Sully is a great cook and wants to publish her cook book. I have no idea (no shock there) where to start. Can any of youse intelligent types point me in the right direction. My computer has the Googles so I did a search and got a million hits.

 

[Scarfman]

- get an angle for the book (I'm a good cook isn't enough - make it the queenslanders' cook book, or the menopause cook book, or the cook book for young men, or whatever)
- get an agent - if you find one that believes in the project, they'll get it on publishers' desks

 

[Sully]

We were thinking more along the lines of self publishing Scarf. Her father is a new age guru and she cooks for his live in workshops. This is the vegetarian recipes from the retreat. It is call 'Food fot the Living Soul'.

 

[Moses]

How about an e-book? Can still charge for them, there are no overheads, easy to produce, no need for a publisher or an agent, and the new age types will love it cause there's no paper fot the win

 

[spooony]

You need a publisher first otherwise you are going to get ripped off

 

[matty_k]

There are enough stories out there that suggest that isn't always the case. Matthew Reilly is the best example I can think of.
Yes he has a publisher now but his first book was self published.

 

[MrTimms]

How about an e-book? Can still charge for them, there are no overheads, easy to produce, no need for a publisher or an agent, and the new age types will love it cause there's no paper fot the win

Totally agree, the interwebs are best for self publication and cutting out the middle man. Plenty of us here would help.

 

[spooony]

There are enough stories out there that suggest that isn't always the case. Matthew Reilly is the best example I can think of.
Yes he has a publisher now but his first book was self published.

Was it electronic?
Electronic = Ability to copy

When I say your going to get ripped I am talking about my pirated experience

 

[Karl]

There is a guy who has sold a few million e-books, as a self published author. Then he wrote a book about self-publishing and online sales. Or maybe it's in his blog somewhere. Anyway, he's a refreshing sort of bloke. A guy called John Locke. His books are the Donovan Creed series and the Emmet Love series.

http://donovancreed.com/