I have not refreshed my blog content as frequently this week because the promotion for my latest ebook, The Successful Author’s Handbook, has been attracting hopeful authors. Order your copy at http://www.matilijapress.com/successful_author_handbook.html
We’re down to the wire with the new print version of Catscapades, True Cat Tales. My goodness, how things have changed within the world of self-publishing since I produced my last print book just three years ago. Every entity requires (or at least strongly encourages) that their forms be filled out online and then they make it so doggone difficult to even locate the form, let fill it out. I now know why so many people choose the pay-to-publish (vanity publishing) option. Donahue will accept payment for the PCIP only through PayPal. I was finally forced to get my first PayPal account. I’ve been relying on my partner’s account when we had to use PayPal. But Donahue insisted that the payment has to come from me personally through PayPal.
The copyright office wants you to use their online forms and then make it practically impossible to locate the form. Bowker prefers that you use their online form for Books in Print. Even our State Board of Equalization has a new policy that requires using an online form to file for paying your sales tax. And I don’t have a problem with any of that, except that they make something that could be so simple, so difficult. Are you struggling with this, as well? Or is it just me? I guess all of these entities will get us trained eventually.
We’re just a barcode and a PCIP away from sending Catscapades, True Cat Tales to the printer. Exciting!
In the meantime, while working on the revision of Over 75 Good Ideas for Promoting Your Book (now to be Over 100 Good Ideas for Promoting Your Book), I’m also in book promotion mode. Of course, any author knows that you’re always in book promotion mode, but when you have a newly published book, you kick it up a notch or two. While promoting my new collection of 50 of my best articles for authors (many of them revised and updated), The Successful Author’s Handbook, I’m just about to launch my prepublication promotion for Catscapades. It is a busy period in the Matilija Press offices.
Want to help? Here’s how. Let me know if you want to receive information about Catscapades. And go ahead and place your order for The Successful Author’s Handbook.
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