AgoraPublishing.com presents critical steps needed for authors to self-publish a high quality and mass-marketable book.
Their book self-publishing and marketing services incorporates the following twenty critical steps / options designed to support your success as an author:
1 - Manuscript evaluation
2 - Front book cover design (Pre-marketing)
3 - ISBN registration
4 - Books-In-Print registration (Pre-marketing)
5 - Book website or author blog (Pre-marketing)
6 - Copy editing OR Substantive Editing OR Ghostwriting
7 - Professional typesetting - designing internal pages - paperback
8 - Ebook formatting (Kindle, Kobo, Nook and Smashwords)
9 - Completing book cover design (spine and back)
10 - Author interview with videographer (preview of upcoming book)
11 - Specimen copy of book (reviewing typesetting)
12 - Printing and/or Ebook publishing
13 - Book distribution considerations
14 - Getting book(s) available on online booksellers or bricks-and-mortar stores;
15 - News release writing & publishing onto various news sites
16 - Writing and publishing high quality and Google trending newspaper-style articles
17 - Marketing and selling your book(s) through our book expos like Ottawa Book Expo - includes interview with a journalist for our YouTube Channel
18 - Authors readings
19 - Promotional options like our Book Expo America shared authors' booth;
Interviews with bloggers and/or television or radio news reporters