![]() ![]() His upcoming book, The Good Creative, due out June 4, explores 18 traits of the world’s most interesting and respected creative professionals. He’s a web designer and author who has self-published four books, including Everything I Know, which between the print and ebook versions sold a total of 4,000 copies. I'm one of them (see my post, “ How My Book Became A (Self-Published) Best Seller ). ![]() Various tools for self-publishing have taken down these barriers for authors who prefer to go it alone. If they didn't ship the package back to you unopened, they would either send you a form rejection letter or make you a lowball offer. ![]() Most would grumble that your idea would not be likely to make a lot of money, or that it sounded “more like a magazine article than a book.” At this point you might abandon the project or, if you were really persistent, send your proposal directly to publishers. ![]() Then you might contact a bunch of agents to see if they would be interested in pitching your book to major publishers. First you would have to spend weeks or months writing a book proposal and sample chapters. Not so long ago, the first hurdle for an aspiring book author was to get past the gatekeepers. ![]()
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