How to Self-Publish Your Book

"Excellent . . . we are so impressed with this comprehensive how-to manual."

"I enthusiastically recommend How to Self-Publish Your Book. It covers all the bases from writing and getting the content ready for publication to publishing it in various formats. It goes on to describe promoting your self-published book, including selling foreign rights. This comprehensive guide is a gift to every book author who is considering self-publishing."

"Jan Yager, author of How to Self-Publish Your Book (Square One), knows her way around the publishing world."

"Leveraging an extensive career in traditional and self-publishing, Yager (When Friendship Hurts) offers a comprehensive guide to the latter field, with separate sections on writing one's book, publishing it, and marketing it . . . [How to Self-Publish Your Book] will prove invaluable to anyone seeking to self-publish in a professional manner."

"One should usually proceed with caution and a dose of skepticism before accepting authors' assertions that their book offers readers everything. But that is clearly not the case here. Publishing expert, prolific author (e.g., Effective Business and Nonfiction Writing; Career Opportunities in the Publishing World), and Hannacroix Creek Books founder Yager has produced this compendium that covers in detail every major step for would-be writers to follow on their path to publishing . . . Yager provides helpful tips for the novice to avoid being taken advantage of by the many publishing services out there and gives what she calls the 'normal range' of fees to expect . . . With self-publishing an increasingly common option for writers today, it would be hard to imagine a more useful and easy-to-follow guide than this comprehensive volume. Highly recommended to everyone hoping to self-publish a book that won't look self-published."

"Realistic, accessible, and thorough . . . Yager's advice on everything from margin size and elements of a cover design to a sensible approach to social media and press coverage is useful and clearly laid out . . . [a] solid choice for authors who have written a book and are ready for the next step."

"Self-publishing still has a poor reputation in the market and you can avoid the pitfalls reading How to Self-Publish Your Book . . . This book is packed with important information . . . I highly recommend this well-done book."

"Superb . . . addresses all aspects of the writing career . . . the layout of this book is exemplary, an excellent source of ideas for authors to follow, and the language is learned while still being conversational in a progression of ideas that leads the way from idea inception to final published product . . . easily the most comprehensive book on self-publishing and one that will become a primer for schools and the legions of writers searching for the secrets contained here. Highly recommended."

"The most comprehensive book ever on self-publishing--and the most helpful."

"What distinguishes Jan Yager's How to Self-Publish Your Book from other books on self-publishing are the sections on writing, editing, getting permissions, creating sell sheets, and designing your book--all key elements in the success of any book."

"How to Self-Publish Your Book by Jan Yager is a complete road map to becoming a successfully self-published author . . . this is one of the most comprehensive, practical, and 'user-friendly' how-to instructional guides available today on the subject of self-publishing . . . if you only have the time or budget for one 'how to' book on the subject, then you would be well served as an aspiring but unknown author seeking publication to give How to Self-Publish Your Book a careful reading . . . unreservedly recommended."