Many of you know that I am a well established and successful Estate Planning and Elder Law attorney. Over the course of the last 6 months I wrote a very colloquial and informative book geared to millennials trying to educate them on estate planning issues. It's really written for those with young children so that they can ensure that their kids will be properly cared for if they pass on young.
I did some research and I'm not sure if I should be looking for a publisher, a literary agent, or just publish it on Amazon by myself.
The purpose of writing the book was not mainly for pecuniary gain but was mostly done as part of a plan to increase my professional cache in my field.
Thoughts?
It'll take about 6 weeks to get an answer.
Publishing on Amazon isn't really publishing, and getting an agent isn't needed of the publisher sees value in your work
You fall into that genre of "boring as fuck" books that publishers pretty much shy away from now. Unless it is considered to be truly groundbreaking where you'd get a presence in B&N or BAM, a publisher isn't going to touch you, and with the proliferation of Books for Dummies covering nearly every category, your road is really tough.
But, you can publish with electronic copy distribution and then market it on Amazon with likely better results. Unless you have an agent, getting the manuscript to a publisher, having them actually read it and then get it approved to print is about an 18 month process. Even with an agent, it is still a year minimum, and that's assuming the agent has connections instead of just doing what you would anyway and blanket send the manuscript out which has little chance of being read that way.
Self publishing is one way to get around an industry that has been notoriously closed to independent authors.
You fall into that genre of "boring as fuck" books that publishers pretty much shy away from now. Unless it is considered to be truly groundbreaking where you'd get a presence in B&N or BAM, a publisher isn't going to touch you, and with the proliferation of Books for Dummies covering nearly every category, your road is really tough.
But, you can publish with electronic copy distribution and then market it on Amazon with likely better results. Unless you have an agent, getting the manuscript to a publisher, having them actually read it and then get it approved to print is about an 18 month process. Even with an agent, it is still a year minimum, and that's assuming the agent has connections instead of just doing what you would anyway and blanket send the manuscript out which has little chance of being read that way.
Self publishing is one way to get around an industry that has been notoriously closed to independent authors.
Agreed. I self published my book using CreateSpace, a division of Amazon. I hired an editor through them, and they also did the cover.
You have a terrible user name!
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if you publish yourself we could help you with your print manufacturing.
You have a terrible user name!
I had terrible working hours... lol
Yes, it was side catering... was easy to do when I was younger.. Now with family etc..
Touche.
What the fuck is a book? That something the crypt keeper used?
There once was a Giants fan from Punxsutawney
Who worked as an estate planning attorney
After some years he self-published a book
That Fatman found boring as fuck
But when he read it he found he got horny.
A niche for "Tax: Srsly," he mistook,
A lawyer by day,
And author by night,
Now, it's the sheep counting his books.
A niche for "Tax: Srsly," he mistook,
A lawyer by day,
And author by night,
Now, it's the sheep counting his books.
Did you mean: "Now, it's the sheep counting his NOOKS." ?