Comment by Caroline on October 29, 2010 at 8:06am

The first thing I would say is that you should write because you want to record or share something, not with the hope of making money....because you very probably won't. Set your expectations so they are achievable and everything else will be a bonus.

I published my 2 books on Lulu and then I also published "Bereavement Rescue" on Amazon Kindle.

For Lulu, you just need to be able to create a pdf of the right size and make a book cover (you can even just use one of their book cover templates if you aren't good with graphics).

For Amazon Kindle, you ideally need to be able to produce your book in html. You can use their document converters and it is worth a try if you aren't comfortable working with html, but you will get a better and more controllable result if you work in html.

There is also a print on demand facility that works with the main Amazon store (https://www.createspace.com/). I am working on getting Bereavement Rescue on to the main Amazon using that, as I don't want to invest in printing advance copies.

All the above is the self-publishing route. I don't know a lot about the publisher route. What I did find with it is that there are a lot of places that present themselves as publishers, but the deal ends up costing the author money - so they are effective vanity-publishers. If you are going to take that route, then I would instead use things like Lulu, Kindle and Create Space that shouldn't cost you money.

Comment by Perry Steinbach on October 29, 2010 at 11:05am

Yes! We think alike! Alot of people can't afford to buy a book. Free is the answer! God will Bless Us!

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