Ancillary
Publishing Book Service!
If you’re thinking of
releasing your book through the fast and free ancillary publishers—Lulu, CreateSpace, Blurb, LightningSource
(LSI), Scribd, and Smashwords
(for Kindle and iPad),—I’m now offering a series of
shorter, directly-related services in addition to my standard publishing Pathfinder program
(which presumes you will either self-publish or you will directly approach
major publishers).
To save you lots of money and time, we should start with the same understanding of how
this new publishing field works and what you must do to take best advantage of
it. We need to speak the same terminology and understand the steps required to
get from where you are now to having your book in print and doing what you want
it to do.
So there are two initial
hoops you must complete to participate in the AP Book Service. The first is
free, the second costs you about $20, and it should take you several days to
complete.
(1) The first is to read the
information at www.mybookpublishedinminutes.com,
which explains roughly what this new, revolutionary system is all about, and
how you can literally get your book in print free in minutes and marketed
worldwide in days. It hardly matters the kind of book—a novel, kids’ book,
cookbook, nonfiction, memoir, family tree, poetry, much more.
(2) The second is to buy
(and read) my book How to Get Your Book in Print Free in Minutes and
Marketed Worldwide in Days. You can order it at the link above. The
digital copy downloads in about 10 seconds and costs $15.95. The bound copy,
mailed by 2-3 day priority mail for $3.50, costs $19.95. It’ll be sent right
away. (Considering that books usually cost from $500-4,500 to self-publish the
conventional way, that just saved you $480-4,480!)
How to Get Your Book in Print Free in Minutes and
Marketed Worldwide in Days will tell you specifically what you must do
to compose and write a first-rate, good-looking book like others on the
bookstore shelves, how you prep the two key files to submit to the ancillary
publishers, the step-by-step submission process (deciphering their techie
tongue and answering the questions they don’t), when you proof the final bound
copy, and how you use the publisher’s marketing structure (if you wish) to
enhance your book’s marketing (beyond what they already do to make your book
accessible and known worldwide).
If you want to just apply
what the book says and do it alone, wonderful! That’s why I wrote it. How to Get Your Book in Print Free in Minutes and
Marketed Worldwide in Days is intended to free you from needing
additional aid, including mine. I have already posted two full books at six of
the seven ancillary publisher sites (just go to their websites and type in
Gordon Burgett)—and I did them without outside help, almost. Using what I
learned about the process in my book should make it possible for you to do it
all by yourself.
But I also don’t want to
leave you stranded if you’re in a pickle, stopped because you are afraid to
move ahead, or you just need some professional specific review and how-to
instruction. There can be a dozen legitimate reasons (see some below) why you
may want assistance, even after devouring my fearless how-to prose, so I’m
opening that door (a bit) with this new service.
Here are the hurdles: (1)
I’m ear-high busy and can only take on three or four clients, max, at any one
time, since I’m also writing and publishing, have a newsletter (free, about this
topic), and speak often, (2) I charge $175 an hour, and (3) almost all of our
work, if not all, is done by email. No lunches, schmoozing, back patting, or
rambling phone calls—that costs you too much money.
The positives: I’m fast and
knowledgeable, keep an honest clock, have been through the standard book
publishing process 100X, have also been through the AP book process a dozen
times (so I know their drill and needs), and if I take your job I will make
myself available quickly until it’s done.
How does it work from here?
If you want to publish the
ancillary way by yourself, please do. It’s doable. Here’s a medal! u (When the book is out, email me with the name of the
publisher(s) and book title—and that you valiantly did it all without my AP
Book Service!)
Yet if you do need my
assistance, go to this link
to get started. The link is free; the first step costs $175. At the link I
explain the 15-item list or questionnaire I need answered to be able to help
you, plus the submission process and a letter of agreement,
When might this assistance
and investment be most beneficial?
► When
you need this book to get speaking contracts or to enhance your business,
vocational, or similar endeavors, like empire building. The book has to do much
more than just appear in print!
► You
want to produce several or many copies of your final book to send to specific
editors at the big house publishers so they will accept, produce, and promote
your book big time!
► Your
book will be a family or group landmark and will be passed on to others and for
generations to come. It may be all they will know about you later. Hard to unring an atonal bell.
► You
want your first book to be a model for similar books (perhaps in a series) to
follow so it must be solid internally and attractive externally.
► You
want to use this book as a starter, you intend to print them in quantity
(perhaps to sell as presentations), and you want to back into your own
self-publishing. (This may be the one that will ultimately save you the most
money by spending some early on.)
► You
just need help.
A final
point. At the first step I will
ask you to send thorough responses to some key questions so I can see if I can
in fact help you—or if a book makes sense (from what you’ve told me). I must
charge you for the time my reading (and thinking) takes, but if I don’t accept
the project or I recommend that it not be pursued (at least as I understand it
from what you have said), I will refund the unused part of the fee for that
opening hour. Otherwise, I will directly respond to what you have sent, and
outline how you might proceed from there, alone or with help (with approximate
costs included).
If you can do it fast and
free, with a $20 or so cheat sheet (my book), super!
If you need help, and I can
provide it, a first-rate book authored by you will still cost far less than if
you learned the full prep and promotion processes and published it yourself.
That’s it. Go do that book!
(If I can help, just hit the link.)
Best wishes,
Gordon Burgett