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Publishing Kit

The Outskirts Press Self-Publishing Kit

Nearly all self-publishing companies offer writers an “incentive” to join their newsletter or mailing list. In most cases, this is the company’s own “Publishing Guide.” These guides vary from sleek sales brochures to informative books covering the process of self-publishing (typically with that particular self-publishing company).

Other self-publishers offer “white papers” or “tip sheets” or “advice columns” focusing on specific topics or obstacles an author may face when self-publishing a book. While often more informative (at least about said topic or obstacle), these white papers are usually much shorter, and therefore, of less-perceived value.

A few self-publishing companies combine their publishing guide with a robust collection of white papers and tip sheets to create a treasure trove of helpful resources for writers. The guide typically markets the company and its offerings, perhaps sheds light on the self-publishing and book marketing processes, and shines a spotlight on successful authors. The white papers, advice columns, and tip sheets, on the other hand, identify core questions or issues facing many writers and offers suggestions or solutions to pave an author’s path toward publication and success.

Outskirts Press offers just such a Publishing Kit to new clients for free at the following link: https://outskirtspress.com/book-publishing.html#ebooks

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Your complimentary Publishing Kit contains the following:

  • 7 Tips to Self-Publish Like a Pro
  • The most recent book by Outskirts Press President Brent Sampson: Self-Publishing Questions Asked & Answered
  • Our definitive publishing guide: Publish Your Passion
  • Book shepherd one-sheet: Meet Your Publishing Consultant
  • Author success white paper: 7 Highly Effective Rules for the Perfect Book Title
  • Author guide: Author Photo & Biography Guide
  • Author tip sheet: The Top 7 Marketing Elements to Include in Your Book
  • Author guide: Which Book Format Should I Choose?
  • Author white paper: How to Price Your Book
  • Publishing white paper: Diving into Self-Publishing
  • About Outskirts Press: Publishing brochure
  • One-stop shop: Custom Illustration Samples in Color and Black & White

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So, are you ready to publish your masterpiece with the A+ rated and #1-rated self-publishing company according to the Better Business Bureau and Top Consumer Reviews, respectively? If so, connect with Outskirts Press right now in whatever manner is easiest for you:

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Publishing Packages, publishing promotions

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When it’s time to share YOUR story with the world, call and talk to an Outskirts Press Publishing Consultant, who can help you on your journey to publication.

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Survey Poll

Self-publishing author PERSONNE wants your help choosing their book cover.

Who are these Surrealists, and why would they befriend me?

I shook my head. “There must be someplace… There’s got to be some way for a man to live.”

“Why not look for it here?” Robert Desnos asked. “I’ll help you, and so will Artaud.”

“In Paris?” I glanced around contemptuously. “No offense, but being a man of letters sitting in some café with his blood as pale as his skin—”

“But I agree with you!” Desnos exclaimed, amused. “I feel exactly as you do about academics in tweed, playing pimp with poems. You’ll meet the same problem no matter where you go. The world has been explored. The whole goddamned world has been at war.”

I shrugged. “I know.”

“Instead of walking where the footprints already are, and calling that an adventure—”

“Adventure,” I sneered without intending to, “is that what you call what we did this afternoon? A childish prank, that’s all it was.”

Desnos regarded me as I shoved at the pile of wood with my toe. “So what is your idea of adventure, Weidmann?” he demanded. “Enjoying beautiful women? Exploring Africa? Going to war? Couldn’t war be someone else’s childish prank?”

Earnestly I asked, “What’s your idea of adventure?”

About the Author

The author of this novel series has been working on a way to tell the story of the lives of Antonin Artaud and Robert Desnos for 30 years. Other publications include horror, science fiction, and weird short stories as well as independent journalism. “Personne” has also been an actor, dancer, scholar, librarian, archivist and voice-over artist.

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Featured Book of the Week

This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is Culminating Experience Personal Theory: Open Feelings Toward Choosing Your Dreams by Maria Alice Silva-Amey

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Culminating Experience Personal Theory: Open Feelings Toward Choosing Your Dreams
How Self Identity Helps Us Understand Our Feelings Toward Career Paths and How We Can Accept Different Directions and Choices

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Maria Alice Silva-Amey

4.5 out of 5 stars – 14 customer reviews

Paperback: $15.95

“With unwavering support, I endorse this magnificent book on chasing one’s dreams. The book is a creative and innovative reflection of the incredible character of the author Maria Alice, whose passion and love for life display and express her determination and commitment to dream fulfillment. I applaud her on this work of literary art and hope it inspires today’s generation and those to come in pursuing their highest goals in life.”

– Marcellene Watson-Derbigny, PhD, Associate Vice President, Student Retention and Academic Success,

California State University, Sacramento

“You have focused on understanding feelings as a way of understanding and appreciating “self,” but also using this understanding as a way to direct oneself toward more gratifying career choices and empowering oneself to make smarter choices over one’s career life. This is particularly challenging in the complex and diverse world you have described. I agree that it is valuable to focus on feelings as they are indicators of basic responses to environment and circumstances in the environment. This is the basic “approach/avoidance” instinct we are born with, but often ignored due to our social learning…to get a job and support yourself and endure the conditions simply because you need to work. Employers would do well to learn from your work as they often are instrumental in creating the work environment.”

– Al Striplen, MA, Healing Arts, Native American Counselor & Spiritual Guide

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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is Poetry Gives Different Magnitudes: Feelings of Visions by Maria Alice Silva-Amey

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Poetry Gives Different Magnitudes: Feelings of Visions

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Maria Alice Silva-Amey

5 out of 5 stars – 8 customer reviews

Paperback: $28.95

“Granted, poetry can be thorny and often difficult to comprehend. But some poetry, like that in Maria Alice Silva’s new book, is like a small gift: morsels of meaning slide right past your poetry defenses and lodge in your head and heart. You don’t have to love poetry to love Maria Alice’s poems. There is no secret key required to unlock them. They speak to common aspects of all our lives-dreams, nature, challenges, relationships-and we can receive the poems’ insights loud and clear.”

– Alice Parente, Executive Director, Process Theatre

“These poems are philosophical meditations about life. A life filled with happiness, a life filled with sadness. Maria Alice explores contrasting universal themes such as love and pain in this collection. Trails filled with thorns and chasing false dreams to love in the park and music filled hallucinations. This poetry collection has it all.”

– Jeremy Spencer editor, Scrambler Books

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Self-publishing author DR. GLENN ORR wants your help choosing his book cover.

Are the Mormons Teaching Fables?

Paul says in 2 Timothy 4:3, “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears” (telling them what they want to hear). Verse 4 says, “And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.”

So, are the Mormons teaching fables?

Glenn Orr, a former member of other churches and a convert, examines the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (aka the Mormons) from a skeptical and scriptural perspective—with very interesting results!

About the Author:

Dr. Glenn Orr, now in his nineties, grew up in the Disciples of Christ Church (called the Christian Church) and later joined the Southern Baptist Church. He was exposed to the inner workings of eight of the radio and TV Back to the Bible organizations. Glenn attended the Lutheran Church while in practice in Iowa, and in 1966, he joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

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Writer Janice Sterling Gaunt wants your help choosing her book cover.

This sassy, brash, and honest book guides mature women through the pleasures and perils of today’s dating scene, all the way to the altar.

Synopsis

“This book is a must-read for anyone looking to improve their dating and relationship skills. Using a blend of humor and wisdom, Janice teaches powerful techniques for attracting and maintaining healthy, fulfilling connections with others.”

— Jenna Bush Hager, Co-host, TODAY with Hoda & Jenna, and Founder of Read with Jenna

“Along with her experience as a licensed professional counselor, Janice uniquely uses her gifts of humor and sensibility in passing on the dos and don’ts of navigating the dating scene in this modern age.”

—Julie Crenshaw

“If I’m being honest even the thought of dating again left a pit in my stomach, which I’m certain stemmed from fear! However, after reading Prince Charming Is Dead…Or in Rehab!, I now have newfound confidence and wisdom, which has allowed me to feel much better about entering the dating world. This inspiring and healing book has given me a plethora of useful tools I can practice every day, which will help me focus on healing my own heart first so I can “fix my picker,” as the author says is one of the key factors in attracting Mr. Marvelous. This book not only gave me many tools to ensure I enter the dating scene with confidence and ease but also taught me many things about myself, and that is the key to attracting the right partner!”

—HeatherAnderson,soheatherblogfashion. influencer

“Dating today is like the worst curse you could wish on anyone,but if THAT is where you are, GRAB THIS BOOK and FOLLOW IT! Let’s face it. The world around us is changing every day, and dating hasn’t gotten easier; it’s truthfully gotten much harder! This is the bootcamp you need to find your inner Princess Charming.”

—LeeAnne Locken , Travel Content Creator, TV Host, TV Personality, #SGTL& #RHOD.

“I really enjoyed reading Janice Gaunt’s new book! As a housewife, I’ve seen many housewives often end up as ex-housewives, and this book gives REAL advice to help the crazy gauntlet of the dating world. This is a perfect book for any single girlfriend!!”

—Kameron Westcott, Public Figure, #RHOD

“Janice’s book has been incredibly instrumental in changing how I date. I was able to heal my dysfunctional family patterns, learn how to re-parent myself, and practice self-care and self-love. Today, I have a beautiful relationship that is based on respect and self-care.” Janice’s tools and guidance changed my life!”

—Hilary Roberts, Recording Artist, Speaker, Founder of Red Songbird Foundation

About the Author:

Janice Sterling Gaunt, a licensed professional counselor, graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Texas Tech University and a master of arts degree from Amberton University. She has trained extensively with Terrence Real, founder of the Relational Life Institute, and Pia Mellody, senior clinical advisor for The Meadows. Janice has been in private practice for the past twenty-two years, specializing in helping both individuals and couples experience abundant living as they overcome the effects of their own childhood traumas. Janice is also the author of The Shame Game—Leaving Shame to Live in Abundance and has a podcast with Tova Sido called The Remedy with Tova and Janice. She lives with her husband in Dallas.

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Featured Book of the Week

This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is The Discovery of the Secret Gospel of the Rich and Powerful

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The Discovery of the Secret Gospel of the Rich and Powerful:
The Gospel of Saint Avarice

by Gary Tutty

5 out of 5 Stars – 1 Customer Review

Paperback $18.95

Have you ever wondered from just what gospel our political leaders, who proudly proclaim they are devout Christians, get their inspiration when they espouse hate and intolerance and seek revenge on anyone who disagrees with them? How about those self-proclaimed devoted Christian business leaders who work hard to increase profits by suppressing their workers’ wages and denying them benefits? What about those fiery evangelical preachers, who are complicit in the actions of these leaders by their avid support or even their silence? Wonder no longer! In this satirical novel, The Discovery of the Secret Gospel of the Rich and Powerful: the Gospel of Saint Avarice, you will meet Brett, a young man who is introduced to that very gospel by his billionaire father. You encounter the Jesus these leaders are emulating. He is a Jesus who teaches his apostles to mock others, to never admit guilt, and to create their own version of the truth. With our discovery of this new Jesus, known only to the most rich and powerful until now, we begin to realize that these leaders have been emulating Jesus all along and actually are doing God’s work after all.

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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is A Life Begins by Keith Harrison Walker

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…a life begins…
by Keith Harrison Walker
Paperback $39.95; Hardback $49.95

This is a personal story of a boy from a small town in Illinois who manages to be the first person in his family to attend college (Northwestern), earn an officer’s commission in the Navy, go on to be a tv news reporter in Tucson, Arizona, become a film script writer, then public relations executive first for a small California firm, then MGM, and later for several of Hollywood’s top PR agencies, eventually forming his own firm, capping his career with nearly 35 years working for the Hyatt Foundation on their Pritzker Architecture Prize. All this, or most of it, in the closet, while in a sixty year relationship with another man.

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This Week’s Amazon Featured Book of the Week is How Far? A Tale of Determination, DNA, and Drama by Bob Wilber

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How Far? A Tale of Determination, DNA, and Drama

by Bob Wilber

(5 out of 5 Stars – 15 Customer Reviews)

Price: $29.95 Paperback

Bob Wilber wrapped up his lengthy professional sports and marketing career in 2016, and immediately wrote and published his autobiography “Bats, Balls, & Burnouts” to great acclaim. For “How Far?” he stretched his writing muscles into an entirely new genre. “How Far?” is historical fiction, and the story surrounds two disparate characters. Wilber wrote “How Far?” as those two characters, in their distinct voices. It is a tale of life, told through the lens of elite athletes playing different games while they impact each other’s lives.
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