Getting a book you wrote published is rather easy if you're willing to spend the money.
There are many companies out there charging all different amounts of money to self publish your book and the challenge is, to get a fair deal, which for me so far has not been an easy process.
I found one publisher who was willing to print for 20 dollars a book and what I decided to do was have them just print one book so I can verify the quality and then I will have about 14 more copies made.
My book is about my career in IT so I may try next year to release this book as something that could be sold after I change all the names in the book, including company names.
I am looking forward to have my 600+ page book printed in both soft cover and hard cover and I definitely made a good move by having just one copy printed first before I committed to a major printing.
My book took me almost a full year to write and when I get it printed out, it has to look good before I commit to more copies.
I had a conversation with an executive of a book publishing company yesterday and he told me that self publishing is now a viable option to getting your work published bypassing all the things a writer had to do in the past to publish their work.
On top of this there are many different packages for a great range of prices to get your book added to book web sites and then marketed.
None of these decisions are easy ones, and for me I will make the decision to market my book next year after names are changed.
Writing my book this year has been very interesting and challenging and I have enjoyed most of the process but remembering all the bad things and bad people I have had to endure in my career in IT was not easy and I realized in a very big way that I have paid more than my share of dues in my chosen field.
One other issue was formatting the cover of my book and one publisher that I eventually used wanted me to create graphic for the front back and even the binding size in the middle, which I would have no way of knowing how to do.
Eventually I got help from one of their workers there and things worked out for the best.
I am still awaiting the first test copy of my book and if that works out well, I am going to go ahead and get 14 more copies for friends and family.
There are many companies out there charging all different amounts of money to self publish your book and the challenge is, to get a fair deal, which for me so far has not been an easy process.
I found one publisher who was willing to print for 20 dollars a book and what I decided to do was have them just print one book so I can verify the quality and then I will have about 14 more copies made.
My book is about my career in IT so I may try next year to release this book as something that could be sold after I change all the names in the book, including company names.
I am looking forward to have my 600+ page book printed in both soft cover and hard cover and I definitely made a good move by having just one copy printed first before I committed to a major printing.
My book took me almost a full year to write and when I get it printed out, it has to look good before I commit to more copies.
I had a conversation with an executive of a book publishing company yesterday and he told me that self publishing is now a viable option to getting your work published bypassing all the things a writer had to do in the past to publish their work.
On top of this there are many different packages for a great range of prices to get your book added to book web sites and then marketed.
None of these decisions are easy ones, and for me I will make the decision to market my book next year after names are changed.
Writing my book this year has been very interesting and challenging and I have enjoyed most of the process but remembering all the bad things and bad people I have had to endure in my career in IT was not easy and I realized in a very big way that I have paid more than my share of dues in my chosen field.
One other issue was formatting the cover of my book and one publisher that I eventually used wanted me to create graphic for the front back and even the binding size in the middle, which I would have no way of knowing how to do.
Eventually I got help from one of their workers there and things worked out for the best.
I am still awaiting the first test copy of my book and if that works out well, I am going to go ahead and get 14 more copies for friends and family.