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Getting Published

The other day there was a blog regarding writing a book, and I thought wow my husband would be wonderful at that. The next day he came home with a book he had written for one of my daughters and I thought it was worthy of becoming a published children's book. He gafted me off until a few others said the same thing. Does anyone have any advice about doing this? Hubby is now going a million miles a minute and I want to cover all of our bases.

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Permalink Reply by Dusty Bottoms on December 28, 2011 at 10:41am

The first choice is whether you want to be published by a publishing house or if you want to self-publish. Since you're asking here I assume the answer is self-publish.

When I wrote this post in the Make Money Homesteading series I listed a few sources for publishing a book. Namely, Createspace by Amazon, Lightning Source (a division of Ingram) and Dog Ear. They each have advantages and disadvantages. For example, Createspace will make it easy for you to create your book, get your ISDN numbers and so on, but I believe the book can only be sold on Amazon. Conversely, using Lightning Source you can have your book sold on Amazon, B&N and in actual book stores, but you'll need to have more skills to manage all the set-up and you'll need to set up your own small publishing company. I suggest looking at all three.

Good luck!

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Permalink Reply by Happy on December 28, 2011 at 11:48am

Thanks. I was also looking for pit holes or traps that anyone knows of.

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Permalink Reply by Ian Olito on January 8, 2012 at 6:44pm

I write articles at www.textbroker.com They pay you to write and can give your husband good exposure.

Good place to start.

Best regards,

Ian

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Permalink Reply by Deep Roots Farm on January 21, 2012 at 5:33pm

I have a friend who published using blurb.com Pricing seems pretty straight forward and may be published online, e-book or printed. I'm looking into this as well since my partner and I have a 100 page farm plan for western Montana and Northern Idaho that we'd love to get published! Let me know what you find!

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Permalink Reply by J Green on February 24, 2012 at 11:10pm

Ian Olito said:

I write articles at www.textbroker.com They pay you to write and can give your husband good exposure.

Good place to start.

Best regards,

Ian

Ian, I'm curious about this site....what kind of articles are most wanted there? Anything at all to do with self-sustainable living, animal husbandry, etc?