Publisher Reviews

Wheatmark is unique among self-publishers: it’s a kind of hybrid self-publisher/publisher.  Not that they turn anyone away – which is the main dividing line between a traditional publisher and a self-publisher – but they do give each author more personal contact.  So Wheatmark acts as a traditional publisher would: they try to help books get sold.  As a business model, this makes sense – if books get into the hands of more people, more new authors will want to sign up for the press.

Otherwise, self-publishing is kind of an isolated process.  On the one hand, this is good news: […]

Most people who self-publish will likely look into the big self-publishers first: AuthorHouse, iUniverse, and Lulu.  The thinking may be that it is hard enough to get readers for a self-published novel – going with a major self-publisher will make it more likely that you’ll find prospective readers within that publisher’s community.

This is not necessarily true.  Just because you’re on Lulu’s site, which gets more traffic than a smaller self-publisher, does not necessarily mean that you’re going to find more takers for your book.  While the Lulu community does offer feedback and review requests between Lulu authors, there is […]

Lulu.com is like the Blogspot of self-publishing companies.  If you’re interested in getting a book published, you could have one set up and mailed to you within ten minutes.  It’s really that easy.  All you have to do is upload a PDF or Word file, which the Lulu engine will convert to PDF, select a cover template and book size, and that’s about it: you’ll have a printed book.  In this way, Lulu is a pioneer in self-publishing: the ability to order one book at a time, as needed, rather than bulk ordering books up front.

That’s the difference between […]