Publishing and Promoting Your Book – Pauline Rowson

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A useful addition to the ‘Easy Step by Step Guide’ series

These guides are practical, easy to read and choc full of valuable tips. One of the things I like most is that each chapter has its own quick, bullet-point summary – though I’d like to see the summary precede the chapter – that way I could skip chapters!

Pulling no punches re publishing, Pauline Rowson tells us about the market for authors; the bad news and the slightly better news, before covering the steps one needs to take prior to approaching a publisher.

But this book is mainly about self-publishing. The author addresses typesetting, book size, printers, binding, ISBN numbers and all the other things that worry new authors. She also covers pricing, branding, selling and promoting your book. Especially useful are the tips on dealing with the media.

Finally there is a list of useful addresses – author’s organisations, agents, self-publishing etc. Pauline is a prolific author (10 books and counting, fact and fiction) and her expertise may well save the budding author a lot of time and trouble.