Are you planning to write and publish a book?
Do you have a completed manuscript?
Have you self-published a book or even a few books?
Would you like to write books for additional income or a living?
Were you traditionally published by a small-press and have found yourself faced with book marketing?
There are more myths and legends in the book publishing game than can be found in ancient Greek literature. Believing the greedy and corrupt ended them. . . It's kind of like that for book writers.
The $1.99 Author offers a pragmatic look at today's book publishing options for both budding and previously published authors. Almost every conceivable publishing path is touched upon with the pros and cons of each laid bare. E. A. Barker is a journeyman writer with a knack for drilling to the bottom of the truth well while managing to serve up even the most disturbing of discoveries with a dash of humour. This should help to make his insider's view of a truly bizarre industry a little more palatable. When E. A. was asked what he thought this book may be categorized under, he quipped: "Humorous Tragedy".
This book is free of sugar-coated empty promises of success.
Instead, readers will be made to understand there is a slippery ladder awaiting them, and The 1.99 Author shows us how to climb it safely without: getting ripped off, getting sued, going broke, being laughed at. . . in addition to mitigating some of the gut-wrenching experiences like piracy and plagiarism which most published authors have likely encountered. Best of all, once you understand the game, you will be given a map of the minefield that is today's book publishing industry so you can avoid the time-consuming low-yield traps－allowing you to concentrate your efforts on what really matters . . . writing more and better books.
Are you the next one-in-a-million author with a hit book?
If you think you might be, picture The $1.99 Author as being a glass-bottomed boat from which you can view the shark-infested waters of the publishing industry before choosing where to dive in. For every one author, there are hundreds of people lined up to fleece them. Whether you simply want to publish your memoir; publish as a hobby; or think you have what it takes to climb the publishing ladder into "The Big Five". . . The $1.99 Author will save you a great deal of time, money, and heartache in your publishing journey.
If you live long enough, and hopefully everyone will, you will reach an age, usually somewhere north of forty, where you begin to take a hard look at how you can best spend the latter half of your life. Bucket lists are created. Ratios come into play. The Fun : Time ratio; The Income : Time ratio; TheTo-Do-List : Time ratio. . . the constant being time, the one thing you can never acquire more of.
At the top of my bucket list, back in 2015, was to write and publish a book to see if I was good enough to potentially augment my future retirement income doing something exciting which, on the surface at least, appeared to be fun. In 2016, Ms. Creant: The Wrong Doers! was released. The book received overwhelming accolades when compared to most books coming from unknown first-time authors. . . but in terms of the additional income generated by my substantial investment of time and money, it fell woefully short of my most basic expectation that it would at least break even. As is typical of my nature, I needed to know why. I had done most everything all the “experts” were recommending at the time, short of throwing insane amounts of additional time and money at an all-encompassing blanket term they call book marketing.
I spent the next few years watching, reading, and most importantly, investigating . . . even dabbling in short-fiction e-book publishing－mostly to see if could write outside of my comfort zone, the nonfiction genre, but also to test some theories from the “experts”.
The $1.99 Author is a compilation of the conclusions I’ve arrived at after spending five long years doing this. This humorous book－one the publishing industry hopes writers do not read－contains 140 UGLY TRUTHS of book publishing, which, for some of us, may represent 140 reasons to rethink our direction in life and how much time and money we are willing to donate to maintain our status in the book author club.
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