Creative Writing and Self-Publishing Your Way: A Handbook

An all-in-one, 184-page color comprehensive guide to creative writing and self-publishing in varied formats.

Part I, Creative Writing - the Basics, first encourages aspiring authors to develop a writing regimen. The crux covers creative writing standards, such as voice, plot, and setting, with the corresponding writing styles of noted authors and exercises.

Bonuses:

§ Establishing a budget for your writing career.

§ Equipping with the proper tools.

§ Commissioning an editor, among other tasks, such as writing query letters, landing a literary agent, and retaining a contract lawyer or intellectual property rights attorney

Part II, Self-Publishing Your Way, covers the publishing essentials, such as obtaining a professional headshot, professional name, employer ID, incorporation, permission rights, copyright, ISBN, pricing, and distributor(s) to uploading metadata and opening a business bank account, and creating a website.

Unlike cookie-cutter versions offered in "free" download articles, videos, and expensive webinars, this step-by-step approach shows authors how to convert an MS Word manuscript into a book format, digital, e-book, and audiobook their way and then successfully upload the files onto the print-on-demand and distributors' websites of their choice. Then presto! Authors are published!

Bonus: Promote to bring attention to your books.

M. J. Simms-Maddox is an indie author and the creator and publisher of the Priscilla series. The South Carolina native grew up in the Snowbelt of western New York and currently resides in North Carolina. She earned her Ph.D. in political science from The Ohio State University, has served as a legislative aide in the Ohio Senate, has operated a public relations agency, and is a semi-retired tenured professor in political science. The author has written mysteries and thrillers since 1999.