Congratulations! You’ve completed your novel, now what? We all strive for the last sentence, but in self-publishing that is not the end. This week we discuss the next steps with Crissy Moss. As luck would have it, Crissy recently completed her second novel and she will share her process on getting the story shipped.
You know that work that I didn't come to the show for? I finished it! Probably no one will even see this...but I did it. And I have a Snickers to eat in peace and quiet in the middle of the night now, thank you.
I'm gonna have fun with my national tax at some point. Once you hit $60k a year income you have to be GST (goods and services tax) registered and pay 12.5% on whatever you sell. Seeing as I sell books overseas there is no GST on them and (as far as I know) my overseas income doesn't count toward the $60k threshold for GST :P
@matmorrisauthor did you say that you link to the actual book page for the available books and the newsletter for WIP's?
@matmorrisauthor @ChrishaunKellerHanna thanks... trying to do rewrites while listening and kinda failing at both...lol
@RChazzChute @ChrishaunKellerHanna wait... don't you have a book coming out every month? ::ducks::
@ChrishaunKellerHanna @RChazzChute Well, yeah, but I meant that I'm doing rewrites and listening at the same time and failing at both. :)
And yes. Four in four weeks. The key is benzedrine.
@ChrishaunKellerHanna @RChazzChute my author hero does. It's either a 25k word novella (which she calls a short) or a 60k novel. One every month o.O
@BatmanErica @ChrishaunKellerHanna @RChazzChute My goal is to publish a 30K book a month, then increase to a 50K as I get faster.
@matmorrisauthor @ChrishaunKellerHanna but I'm learning so much...! I have a book coming out next month!
The border used to be worse. They still charge too much, but the delay isn't as bad as it used to be. Shipments from CreateSpace come much faster now.
Sometimes it's cheaper to buy your book from the book depository, than through createspace.
@BatmanErica Thanks for that tip, I'll look into that. Right now, CreateSpace charges me double what the books cost to ship them.
@PerryConstantine no worries. It's amusing though seeing as Amazon own the Book Depository :P
Mat's right, going direct is actually pretty simple. I have a Mac so I can go direct to Apple and I find iTunes Producer to be pretty easy to use. Kobo's real easy as well. Google Play is a pain in the ass. B&N is the only big site I can't go direct to because of country restrictions, so I use D2D for that and everything else.
Oh and also, if you use permafree, you can't make your books free through Nookpress. You can only make them free if you use an aggregator.
Not a fan of Bookbaby. It costs a lot of money to make alterations. They also told me I'd lose all my reviews if I left them (which is not true.) I also just closed what was left of my Smashwords account because of the slowness and it's not a destination site, anyway.Just used D2D today. They're really fast.
What's the key to getting things up on Apple when you don't have a Mac? It seems like they have a lot of rules before you're able to upload there. (No outside links, etc...)
@PatrickSzabo For unapproved links--even though ALL my links go right to landing pages on my website.
@CateMorgan @PatrickSzabo Oh that. Yeah, Apple is goofy as some very goofy thing about that. I've heard if you contact them they'll let them slide, but I haven't done it.
@PatrickSzabo Smashwords is so awful. I go direct to almost everywhere and use D2D for everything I don't.
