We all want our opinions, our advice and most importantly, our life’s work to sit on someone’s book shelf. Most of the writers are inspired by this to take action, to publish a book. So why not self-publish? After all, self-publishing is a simple (and effective) way of promoting your work, at an affordable cost.
Many authors struggle with valuing their work, which they often perceive to be unworthy of publishing. This negativity is often prompted when traditional publishing houses turn down books. For these publishing houses, books are business, and if a book does not make business sense, it won’t be published. Many authors who value their work, take up self-publishing.
But if you feel that your work isn’t up to scratch, let me give you these facts:
If there is something you know, and are expert in, chances are someone else is looking for that knowledge or information.
If you have a story to tell, chances are that there is someone looking forward to reading that story.
If you have the enthusiasm to write a book, chances are that there are many self-publishing companies that can help you publish it and realize your dreams.
Outskirts Press is one of those companies. If you think you can write a book, and if you are looking for the right guidance – be it editing, book marketing or even advise – then Outskirts Press can not only point you in the right direction, but also give you the impetus that your dreams need.
The truth is, we all think our book should be out there. So really, if you know something that I don’t, chances are that I will read what you write.
So do you want to self-publish at an affordable price?
I can tell you that from idea to implementation, publishing a book can be an expensive venture, especially if you are not careful. You are not just parting away with your precious time, but also with your hard-earned money. So it becomes important to side with self-publishing options that make this whole process affordable for you.
Self-publishing is entrepreneurship, and should not cost a lot of money to start-up. As a matter of fact, writing a book will weigh down on your time. But marketing, designing and selling your book requires some capital, which if you are not careful, could leave a big hole in your pocket.
So what can you do to control this cost and make the process affordable, yet highly professional?
Hire services from a self-publishing company.
It really is as simple as that. For example, if you invest in any of the affordable self-publishing packages offered by Outskirts Press, you could save a ton of money on creating a professional book.
Wouldn’t that be nice? I, for one, would like to finish a book without a huge debt on my shoulders. This way, all the money I earn from selling my work will go straight into my pocket, rather than in the pockets of different publishing houses.
Moreover, there’s an icing on the cake!
When it comes to self-publishing, using more than one self-publishing services can reduce the quality of the final product, while increasing your liability towards different publishing houses. So stick with one package that can cater for all your self-publishing needs.
So do you want to self-publish at an affordable price?
I have a story to tell, and if I put my mind to it, I can write a book about my story.
The fact is, so can you!
But does that make me or you capable of publishing?
Maybe so.
But simply writing a book is not enough. Most of us with a traditional typewriter or computer and persistence could do that. Drafting and editing aside, there are other aspects of publishing that are important to consider.
Interestingly, self-publishing makes these ‘other’ aspects much easier than the traditional route.
The biggest stumbling block for many self-publishers is the pricing, marketing and publicity of their finished work. How do you price a book?
Many authors do it differently – they price their book based on the number of potential sales, the time they put into the product and often the demand on their work. Whatever price you go with, you have to keep the target market in mind, can they afford the book? Self-publishing help such as that offered by Outskirts Press can really help you drill down on a price.
What about the marketing and publicity?
As writers, most of us cannot handle the marketing and promotion of our finished book by ourselves. After all, writers are not really marketers. So what can you do?
Get expert help. Outskirts Press offers professional (and often promotional) marketing packages that can give your book a useful marketing facelift. By adding these modules to your self-publishing package, you will have an awesome final product.
Want to send out a Labor Day mailing to promote your book? You may consider our personal and customized Labor Day Greeting Cards that feature your published book!
Greeting cards are 4.25”x 6” on Premium 14 pt. gloss cover stock. These cards are full color, front and back, and scored for easy folding. The front of the card recognizes the occasion. The inside-left of the card highlights your single book, along with the title, the author name, the cover image, and the webpage address. The inside-right of the card is blank so that you can personalize each card with a handwritten message before folding and mailing them in the included white envelopes.
Greeting cards come in quantities of 250. Outskirts Press authors can also order Custom US First Class Postal Stamps to send out these promotional mailings. Both of these optional marketing products can easily and conveniently be added from the Marketing Solutions screen of their author’s center.
*Production, printing and shipping can take up to 3-4 weeks. Order now to allow plenty of time to receive your cards for a timely holiday promotional mailing.
** The interior image in the example features “Sell Your Book on Amazon.” Details and cover image will be replaced by the details and cover image for your book.
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Believe it or not – you must market different books in different genres differently. Likewise, we have created a list of our marketing options that tend to yield the highest return on investment (ROI) for self-publishing religious and/or spiritual authors because each of them can help you reach the target audience that is already looking for YOUR book.
1. Spring Arbor Christian Distribution - The purpose of Spring Arbor Christian Distributors is to provide superior distribution services for books that enhance people’s relationship with God. Outskirts Press authors with the Diamond or Pearl publishing package can receive submission to Spring Arbor Distribution for free. It is also available to Ruby authors as an additional paid option. Since Spring Arbor is a distributor with a specific purpose, not all titles submitted for consideration are accepted. Spring Arbor holds ultimate discretion for the titles they accept.
2. Personal Marketing Assistant – Outskirts Press Personal Marketing Assistants are available to work with Christian authors, regardless of where they published, in 5-hour blocks of time to develop a marketing plan (if needed), introduce new marketing strategies and carry out the marketing tactics necessary to reach the target audience and achieve your goals. For Outskirts Press published authors, this option is included in the Book Blast package.
3. Spirituality & Health Magazine Co-Op Advertising – Spirituality & Health reaches over 85,000 predominantly successful, professional readers who have grown to value authenticity, meaning and balance in life. They are invested in exploring the spiritual aspects of life and are on a journey focused on health, self-knowledge, authenticity and integration. Outskirts Press published authors can reach these affluent readers of Spirituality & Health magazine through co-op ads that are only a fraction of the cost of running full color advertising on their own. (NOTE: As of today, only one space remains for our upcoming Spirituality & Health ad — ACT SOON!)
The Kindle Edition is available for all authors, regardless of where their book was published, and is included in the Amazon Extreme package.
5. Article Ghostwriting and Distribution – One of the proven ways to market yourself and your book on the Internet is to write and distribute related articles that demonstrate your expertise in your subject matter. Even if your article does not blatantly promote your book, your “About the Author” byline section does, including a link to your webpage. This is also good for Search Engine Optimization for your webpage.
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Self publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Bradley Clemmons’ Mountain Dragon: Aspiration.
In his latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Bradley Clemmons, spans generations and weaves spirituality, magic, karma and the bonds of love in a tale of high adventure about an enlightened female warrior who vanquishes and then redeems her enemies.
The world is in chaos. Enemies threaten the Middle Kingdom from all sides after a dark and evil force with overwhelming power shatters the political hopes of two nations. One little child survives with the potential and the strength to make all warring factions in the region take notice.
This young sorceress bears a potent and mysterious gift and she masters not only the worldly endeavors necessary to stem the tide of anarchy, but she also uses the great wisdom and love she has gained to redeem her adversaries and offer the world the most precious of gifts.
Clemmons’ two volume Mountain Dragon work is a tale reminiscent of the great heroes and masters, but for the first time these mythic attributes are fully embodied by a woman.
According to earlier myth, the young Eastern princess Yeshe Dawa told monks who suggested she pray to be born a man in her next life, only “weak minded worldlings” see gender as a barrier to enlightenment. Author Clemmons presents a fully realized myth of enlightened femininity which can now resonate with the more inclusive spiritual zeitgeist of the 21st century.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Bradley Clemmons has been a student and lay practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism under the guidance of Khyabje Tarthang Tulku, Rinpoche, for over 35 years. He and his wife live in northern California.
This author purchased the Book Blast package, saving 25% on 5 powerful marketing services to blast the book into the stratosphere! The Book Blast package includes the following options: Custom Press Release, PR Publicist Campaign, Book Review Submission Service, Book Video (shown above) and Personal Marketing Assistant. Outskirts Press authors can easily and conveniently add this package at any time from the Marketing Options screen of the Publishing Center.
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Self publishing a book is an exciting undertaking. Because we understand the dedication that is required to write a quality book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Brad & Mary Bradbury’s We’ve Never Had a King.
In their latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press authors, Brad & Mary Bradbury’s personable writing style will immediately endear readers to this charming couple, their experiences, and the many interesting acquaintances they met along the way. Their unique writing style also lends itself to a definite ease of reading by allowing the reader to glide from one anecdote to another without wading through copious text to uncover the subject.
After a candid and witty assessment of their courtship and marriage, Brad continues his interesting anecdotal series of quips about their adventures in the Kingdom of Iraq. After a few months, it became evident that the “natives were restless!” A combination of frustrations was permeating the atmosphere, resulting in a general unrest of the populace and the military. The Iraqis were suffering from unemployment, low salaries, poor living conditions, corruption, lack of oil revenue sharing, and their intolerable existence under a royal regime, force-fed to them by the British. These straws of contention could ultimately break the back of the Iraqi camel.
We’ve Never Had a King is a treat and the captivating behavior of both Brad and his delightful wife bring insights and joy to readers in a narrative far more enjoyable than the run-of-the-mill memoir.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Brad, born during the Roaring Twenties in Fort Worth, Texas, was greeted with open arms by The Great Depression and World War II. He attended Texas A&M, served in Naval Aviation and worked at Phillips Petroleum Company’s Kansas City refinery before transferring to Iraq. Mary and Brad married in 1951 and spent a wonderful fifty years together before Mary’s passing.
This author purchased the Book Blast package, saving 25% on 5 powerful marketing services to blast the book into the stratosphere! The Book Blast package includes the following options: Custom Press Release, PR Publicist Campaign, Book Review Submission Service, Book Video (shown above) and Personal Marketing Assistant. Outskirts Press authors can easily and conveniently add this package at any time from the Marketing Options screen of the Publishing Center.
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Publishers Weekly reaches over 80,000 booksellers, publishers, public and academic librarians, wholesalers, distributors, agents, and writers in addition to more than 360,000 unique monthly website visitors.
Now you can reach this influential readership
with a Co-Op advertisement.
Co-Op Advertising allows you to secure premium, full-color exposure for your book in a high-quality trade publication for a minimal amount of money. Your book will occupy a 2″ x 2″ space along with other Outskirts Press titles within a full-color ad. Your ad space will include a full color cover image, an abbreviated synopsis, the ISBN, and retail price of the book.
Here’s an example of how the Outskirts Press full color author co-op ad appearing
in Publishers Weekly will look:
HOW TO ORDER:
To get more information and reserve your space in a Publishers Weekly Co-Op Ad, sign-in to your Publishing Center. Outskirts Press published authors can order this option conveniently at any time. Reservations for Outskirts Press published authors are taken on a first-come first-served basis based upon receipt of payment.
Outskirts Press, the fastest-growing full-service self-publishing and book marketing company, today announced its top ten best selling titles for February 2011 according to combined data from Ingram Book Wholesalers and Outskirts Press Direct via http://outskirtspress.com/bookstore. These authors have likely created a solid book promotion strategy and put it into motion either by themselves or with the help of a Personal Marketing Assistant.
In alphabetical order, the top ten best selling books in self publishing during the month of February were:
Congratulations to our best selling authors for the month of February!
All these books, and other Outskirts Press titles, are available from all major online retailers like Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powells, Books A Million, and others, plus conveniently from the Outskirts Press Direct bookstore at http://outskirtspress.com/bookstore for discounts ranging from 10% – 55%.
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Self publishing a book is exciting. It doesn’t matter whether an author chooses to publish using a full service provider, like Outskirts Press, or if they decide to “go it alone.” Because we understand the dedication that is required to write, publish, and market a book, we like to feature our top authors each week so that you can get to know a little bit more about them and their book. This week, we are featuring Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton’s The Knight Family Legacy.
In her latest book, self-publishing Outskirts Press author, Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton, gives an eye-opening glimpse into the complex, often contradictory story of Major John Knight Jr. and those around him-a world where the gray areas crowd out black and white.
In 1886, Major John Knight Jr. summoned five witnesses to his deathbed. There, he did something extraordinary: He bequeathed his former slaves his estate. What followed is a story of courage, love, epic legal battles, and one remarkable turnabout: only years after being in bondage, Knight’s former slaves and their descendants entered the plantation house as masters of their domain-and their future.
Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton’s new historical biography/autobiography, a seven year undertaking, is a story of courage and incredible inner strength. Her successful venture is a testament that anyone can trace their ancestry. She delves deep into the psyche of every day people in an era and time when black-white relationships were taboo, while providing a revelation that we, as a people, are more one than many. She surreptitiously explores commonalities that bridge real and/or perceived barriers that divide us—barriers often attributed to national origin, ethnicity, class, and socio-economic factors. Finally, she examines the intent of the heart and the intrinsic bonds of family—only to uncover that the heart and family are indeed unifying forces.
The Knight Family Legacy: One Family’s Story is perfect for Civil War buffs, Slavery Historians, Social Historians, Cultural Historians, Genealogists and Family History enthusiasts, and anyone with a genuine love for history and the implicit, although complex, and, often contradictory, human interactions of a foregone era.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Marilyn R. Hill-Sutton is the wife of Joseph Sutton, a Knight family descendant. After a career in the insurance and healthcare industries, she embarked on a journey to research and document the stories that have been passed down by ancestors through word-of-mouth for more than a century. Her love for history, and her husband’s family legacy, was the driving force behind the quest to trace the family’s trajectory from the scourge of slavery through their many immeasurable triumphs.
This author purchased the Book Blast package, saving 25% on 5 powerful marketing services to blast the book into the stratosphere! The Book Blast package includes the following options: Custom Press Release, PR Publicist Campaign, Book Review Submission Service, Book Video (shown above) and Personal Marketing Assistant. Outskirts Press authors can easily and conveniently add this package at any time from the Marketing Options screen of the Publishing Center
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