02-19-2017, 05:21 AM
Evan,
Don't get discouraged. You do have an option to publish your book once finished. Get it into PDF form, have someone edit for typos and errors, post your copyright after the title page, create a cover with Photoshop, and then go through CreateSpace. You can get MSWord templates, plain or formatted, from them at no charge. Correct-sized cover templates from CreateSpace are also free. The more you do yourself, the less you have to pay them. You can even make a page count, pick the book's size, and get your own ISBN number from Bowker (it does cost $125 as I recall). Or you can have CreateSpace get the ISBN at no charge, but they will be listed as the publisher.
What I'm saying is that a person with your knowledge and smarts can publish his own work. I've done it more than once... and I'm far less computer-literate than you are.
Go for it!
Don't get discouraged. You do have an option to publish your book once finished. Get it into PDF form, have someone edit for typos and errors, post your copyright after the title page, create a cover with Photoshop, and then go through CreateSpace. You can get MSWord templates, plain or formatted, from them at no charge. Correct-sized cover templates from CreateSpace are also free. The more you do yourself, the less you have to pay them. You can even make a page count, pick the book's size, and get your own ISBN number from Bowker (it does cost $125 as I recall). Or you can have CreateSpace get the ISBN at no charge, but they will be listed as the publisher.
What I'm saying is that a person with your knowledge and smarts can publish his own work. I've done it more than once... and I'm far less computer-literate than you are.
Go for it!
Alan J. Campbell
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
member of Legio III Cyrenaica and the Uncouth Barbarians
Author of:
The Demon's Door Bolt (2011)
Forging the Blade (2012)
"It's good to be king. Even when you're dead!"
Old Yuezhi/Pazyrk proverb
