Self-Publishing

Author L. Marie Cook discusses self-publishing her memoir, Lay Me Down, with Create Space, Kindle and Smashwords, Sony, Barnes and Noble, Fishpond, Kindle Fire, Tower Records, Tower Books, iTunes. Amanda Hocking's success was factor for choosing to publish with Smashwords. Ease, good customer service and notoriety of Create Space's ties to Amazon were factors for choosing Create Space over Lulu.
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[freethrillsdotcom]

Two questions: The professional editing seems like the biggest expense at $1,000 - what were the benefits there, and would you decide to take that route again (ie: was the professional editing that necessary -- was it full of spelling mistakes, grammar issues, etc?) What made you choose CreateSpace vs LuLu.com - was there something that made you decide CreateSpace was better? LuLu also does ISBN and lists on Amazon.

[lesliecook425]

@freethrillsdotcom The Pro-edit was very worth it. I had made lots and lots of edits to my own work but it is very easy to miss things as the author as I am too close the work. I had asked a few friends to edit for me as well, even offered to pay but they were extremely unreliable, with the exception of one, who did the last once-over on my final proof.

[lesliecook425]

@freethrillsdotcom I chose Createspace because too many people were familar with Lulu as a self-publishing company and their name appears on the binding. I didn't want people to be able to immediately dismiss the book based on it being self-published. However my views on that have changed. I'm a proud self-published author. But it still makes it harder to get reviewed. The views on SP-ing are becoming more positive, but some will automatically think its crap just because it's Self-published.

[lesliecook425]

yeah I really need to fix that!

[kamapuaa666]

Might want to re-upload, your audio is totally out of sync.