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Podcast: How to be an Author
Episode: How much does it REALLY cost to publish a book?
Description: One of the biggest excuses I hear from writers working on a book but never quite finishing it is the sheer cost of publishing. Why bother finishing their novel, they say, since their only option for publishing it is miraculously making it through the gatekeepers and getting it conventionally published, the only "free" option. Here's the thing: even though it is true that you should never pay an agent or a publisher, conventional publishing is not necessarily completely devoid of costs, and it is definitely not your best financial deal in many cases. And self publishing, while it can...