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    Getting Down and Digital: How to Self-publish Your Book - A Step-by-step, No-nonsense, No-hype Guide to Successfully Publishing Your Book Yourself
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    Getting Down and Digital: How to Self-publish Your Book - A Step-by-step, No-nonsense, No-hype Guide to Successfully Publishing Your Book Yourself
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    Getting Down and Digital: How to Self-publish Your Book - A Step-by-step, No-nonsense, No-hype Guide to Successfully Publishing Your Book Yourself
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    Getting Down and Digital: How to Self-publish Your Book - A Step-by-step, No-nonsense, No-hype Guide to Successfully Publishing Your Book Yourself

    By A.P. Fuchs

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    About this ebook

    In an age of self-publishing hype and scattered sources of reliable information, it’s difficult for the would-be self-publisher to learn how to properly launch their career and avoid the inevitable pitfalls the world of independent publishing is known for.

    Not anymore.

    Getting Down and Digital: How to Self-publish Your Book is by self-publishing veteran A.P. Fuchs, who has been self-publishing fiction for nearly a decade. From getting suckered in by a vanity press to learning the hard truth behind successful self-publishing, A.P. Fuchs has been through the school of hard knocks and beyond, coming out on the other side with a publishing platform that has enabled him to support his family while independently publishing fiction.

    In Getting Down and Digital: How to Self-publish Your Book you will learn: the most critical lesson about self-publishing you will ever discover; a no-nonsense, non-hyped approach to desktop publishing; proper paperback and eBook formatting; book marketing strategies for on-line and off-line sales; all explained in an easy-to-understand, step-by-step format, helping you to take your finished manuscript to market with ease; paperback and eBook publishing checklists and notes section.

    No hype. No bologna. Just pure, honest self-publishing.

    If you’re tired of the confusion, tired of the hype and just want a simple and concise way to properly self-publish your book and be successful at it, then Getting Down and Digital: How to Self-publish Your Book is required reading for any serious self-publisher, whether just starting out or having self-published already.

    About the Author: A.P. Fuchs is the author of many novels and short stories. His most recent books are Axiom-man: Outlaw; Axiom-man: Episode No. 2: Underground Crusade; Getting Down and Digital: How to Self-publish Your Book; Look, Up on the Screen! The Big Book of Superhero Movie Reviews; and Canadian Scribbler: Collected Letters of an Underground Writer.

    Also a cartoonist, he is known for his superhero series, The Axiom-man Saga, both in novel and comic book format.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoscom Entertainment
    Release dateOct 10, 2013
    ISBN9781927339305
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    Getting Down and Digital: How to Self-publish Your Book - A Step-by-step, No-nonsense, No-hype Guide to Successfully Publishing Your Book Yourself
    Author

    A.P. Fuchs

    A.P. Fuchs is a working writer and illustrator, and the author of more than forty books. He is most widely known for his superhero epic, The Axiom-man Saga, and his shoot 'em up zombie trilogy, Undead World.He's been an independent publisher since 2004 and has played every role in the publishing business, including-but not limited to-editor, book interior and cover designer, publisher, and marketer.His spectrum of work includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry, comics, essays, and articles. He also writes a weekly newsletter called The Canister X Transmission, which you can subscribe to here.He can be found on most social networks sharing information.Join his Patreon journey for serial novels, essays, behind-the-scenes stuff, and more at www.patreon.com/apfuchsWriter and illustrator A.P. Fuchs makes his home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, smack dab in the middle of North America.

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