Selling Your Book: The Writer's Guide to Publishing and Marketing

Review\nDespite its misleading title, this book offers the basics of setf publishing, with only a cursory look at the requirements of placing one's manuscript with a commercial publishing house. The book examines the many phases of manuscript preparation (conspicuously bypassing the copy editor) and book production, book distribution, and publicity and advertising. Kavka encourages the reader to employ a creative approach to marketing one's own work, especially when finances are limited. A glossary supplies the novice with the most frequently used production/publishing terms. Always underscoring the potiential reward of self-publishing, the author, nonetheless, keeps potential risks in mind. Kavka is the founder of Evanston Publishing, which helps writers self publish and market their books. -- From Independent Publisher