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Category 1
PUBLISHERS NAMES, ADDRESSES, AND PHONE NUMBERS
PUBLISHERS NAMES, ADDRESSES, AND PHONE NUMBERS- that publish your subject matter and genre of book. In many cases where applicable, I will also give you the name of any editor, or editors listed from the publisher to whom and where you can address your literary work to. This is the most important category for attaining your goal and getting your book published. The partnership you build with a publisher, or literary agent is essential to your success. So, to reiterate, you would give me the subject of your book, and I would then do the extensive research and inform you as to which major Publishers, are publishing books in that genre/category.
Category 2
LITERARY AGENTS/LITERARY AGENCIES
I will supply you within your state and proximity to where you reside, addresses and telephone numbers of literary agencies, and literary agents who will perhaps work with you under a contractual arrangement. If your literary agent is successful and has good relationships with various publishers, the better your chance is of signing an agreement with a publisher. Don’t forget, any literary agent that handles you wants to see you get a book contract with a publisher as much as you do.
Category 3
LIST OF BOOK MANUFACTURERS
A LIST OF BOOK MANUFACTURERS- who will offer you the best prices, along with their addresses, telephone numbers, and contact person should you decide to print a short run of your book for yourself, other publishers, or literary agencies.
Category 4
VANITY PRESSES
If you don’t know what Vanity Presses are, you’re better off. They are publishing houses that publish books at the author’s expense. Vanity publishers make money, not from selling books for you, but from the author buying their own books back from the Vanity Press Publisher. They will promote your book, and then list it on Amazon, which you will also end up paying extra for. A Vanity Press Publisher charges you steeply, and this “scam” ends up being a losing proposition for you, the author. Therefore, I DO NOT recommend, using a “Vanity Press.”
NOTE: You can always choose to go to a local printer like Minuteman Press, Office Depot, or Staples to print copies of your book if the total of books is small enough and cost effective. This is a far better option. However, keep in mind if your book is FICTION, that is of course a standard novel that consists of only typed words on a page, it will cost you less to print than having a NON-FICTION book printed, because this type of genre most likely is going to have either illustrations, pictures, drawings, photos, artwork, or a combination thereof, which is usually in color, and that will cost you more to reproduce and print.
Category 5
BOOK DISTRIBUTORS IN AMERICA-Book
I will give you my personal cell phone number, so you can call me and I will help you STEP-BY-STEP, with all the “ins and outs” of self-publishing your book, or manuscript. I know very well how to do this because I had to go on this route with my very first book. As you probably are aware, Barnes & Noble is the largest book-store chain in America. I will explain on how to approach them and what to say to get your book into their stores. At last count, there were 590 Barnes & Noble’s stores in America, in 48 states, 476 cities, and they continue to grow. I will explain how to approach them and what to say to get your book into many of their bookstores. Having your book sold in Barnes & Noble would be a most impressive and respected accomplishment. Also, your incentive would be to start by getting your book into as many local bookstores as you can travel to and call on them monthly and hopefully check the sales of your book.
NOTE: I will supply you with a printout on how to self-publish your book.
Category 6
SPECIAL TUTORIAL SESSION ON SELF-PUBLISHING
I will give you my personal cell phone number, so you can call me and I will help you STEP-BY-STEP, with all the “ins and outs” of self-publishing your book, or manuscript. I know very well how to do this because I had to go on this route with my very first book. As you probably are aware, Barnes & Noble is the largest book-store chain in America. I will explain on how to approach them and what to say to get your book into their stores. At last count, there were 590 Barnes & Noble’s stores in America, in 48 states, 476 cities, and they continue to grow. I will explain how to approach them and what to say to get your book into many of their bookstores. Having your book sold in Barnes & Noble would be a most impressive and respected accomplishment. Also, your incentive would be to start by getting your book into as many local bookstores as you can travel to and call on them monthly and hopefully check the sales of your book.
NOTE: I will supply you with a printout on how to self-publish your book.
I hope by now you are getting excited! Also, this is the method of how you will get paid. Of course, you will need to get permission from the Barnes & Noble store manager, and any owner of independently owned bookstores. They will then issue you a check for all books sold in their store after about six months, or upon any agreement you had when placing your book on consignment. At this time, they will look at your book sales in Barnes & Noble, or any other independently owned bookstores you placed your book in, and decide whether to carry it, or not. They could also tell you to get a publisher, or distributor and then accept your book. I will explain in our “LIVE” phone call conversation, what worked and what I said to get my initial book into Walden Books’ 1,400 stores and B. Dalton Booksellers 1,200 stores, years ago. We will then apply those steps to Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, (second largest book chain) and all approximately 2,600 independently owned bookstores in the United States.
Lastly, I would like to inform you, and add to my credentials on the above subject, that I also taught an evening course in a few colleges and high schools in New Jersey in 1995, 1996 and 1997, entitled “HOW TO GET YOUR BOOK PUBLISHED, OR HOW TO SELF-PUBLISH YOUR BOOK.”
Whatever you decide on doing, I wish you the best of fortune, fame and success. Together, and with my know-how, we will put together a master plan for getting your book published, or self-published, and onto bookstore shelves wherever fine books are sold.
In addition to the above-mentioned important fundamentals listed by categories, you should also contemplate on other areas as follows:
- (A) EDITING & PROOFREADING: No Matter if you are, or were an A+ student in English, someone with necessary proofreading experience, needs to critique the storyline structure and make sure the grammar and spelling is perfect!
- (B) BOOK COVER DESIGN: This is vital for a reader to pick up your book in a bookstore because of the “knock-out,” eye-catching, color cover.
- (C) BOOK TITLE: It doesn’t have to be as catchy as Erma Bombeck’s book entitled “If Life’s A Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?” Or, Ken Keseys’s title “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest!” However, it should be one that conveys the message of communication to the reader of what your book is about. It helps if your book stands out on the shelf and looks as though it’s softly saying “pick-me-up.”
- (D) DISTRIBUTION & MARKETING: Again, if you are self-publishing your book, you should decide on one of the major book distributors because they make many stops and distribute books to more of a variety of bookstores than a smaller independent distributor can.
- (E) PUBLICITY/ADVERTISING: When it comes to needing help with publicity and advertising assistance that is necessary to give your book a much-needed boost, Amazon.com. Spend less. Smile more. is considered to excel as being the leader in this category. They have helped countless entrepreneurs, authors and inventors reap success with their book, project, or invention.