Creative Self Publishing (Ireland) is a resource set up by independent writer/researcher/publisher and author Maria B.O'Hare to help others discover and fulfill their creative potential as the publishers of their own work. You can message here at this page directly for any queries or comments. Read on if you would like to find out more about creative self publishing....
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easons why books never get published traditionally is more to do with market potential and salability, Traditional publishers are not charitable organisations. It doesn't very often even come down to the quality of the writing. The great news is that as a writer/researcher you can still be published - as the main purpose of being PUBLISHED, is to share your words, your ideas and discoveries with the world - Published books (e-books or physical or both) will find their readers: unpublished books will not. It doesn't matter if their ultimate audience are a few dozen or several hundred thousand, or perhaps even just your family, close friends and close-knit community; at least your manuscript can be read. if it is published.. Self publishing/Independent publishing has moved on and has become a highly professional pursuit. Gone are the days of vanity press and the stigma of having to pay someone to publish for you. In a nut shell: with the internet and the way we use computers and mobile devices, we all have at our fingertips the means to publish our own words and to do it both creatively and virtually for free. Here is How
Maria has produced a unique ‘Book inside a Book’ concept that shows the reader how the book was made so that they can create their own. Maria B. O’Hare, living in Spiddal, County Galway with her partner and son, is the author of the soon to be published e-book How This Book Was Made & How You Can Make Your Own, the e-book version (to be launched initially on AMAZON Kindle) with the physical version with its step-by-step guide to producing and successfully publishing in any format and with complete independence, is to follow shortly thereafter:
“A paperback book that can sit proudly next to traditionally published books in real ‘bricks & mortar’ book shops”
The e-book version shows the would-be self-publisher, how to conceptualise, design and create their own high quality book cover (even if they have no prior knowledge of design), embed suitable quality images and to do the very particular formatting for the successful uploading and publication of an e-book to be made available globally. It assumes no prior expertise, technical know-how, or access to specialist software. Indeed, the author demonstrates, by showing how the e-book itself was created, how anyone with a desire to publish their books probably already has the basic tools at their finger-tips to do so. The idea of this e-book is to essentially empower anyone with an interest in publishing their writings (particularly struggling writers/researchers) to be fully creative and ultimately, achieve a high level of independence in their self-publishing adventures. In a nut-shell: this e-book offers readers a choice of tried and tested tools to experiment with; to basically have fun while doing it and perhaps best of all: to do it all: ‘virtually’ for FREE. The author’s background is the research and publication of more scientifically focused topics (M.B. O’Hare has a PhD in archaeology and worked for a number of years as a freelance archaeological analyst – mainly pre-historic stone tools within Ireland). With the economic climate, plummeting drastically, Maria began related, but more independent research which in turn, led to several independently published books See more on nature of research at website http://diggingupthefuture.com Maria eventually formed an independent imprint DiG-Press and in more recent years began to synthesise her self-taught wealth of knowledge on how to become a fully-fledged published author with little or no previous knowledge and to do it all basically: “on a shoe-string”. She now teaches courses on Creative Self-Publishing and How This Book Was Made & How You Can Make Your Own (e-book version) is a treasure-trove tool-kit to help anyone who has a desire to publish their own e-books and have full creative and financial control. There are lots of free resources posted regularly on this page via the related blog: http://unrulypen.wordpress.com and/or message this page directly for any questions or help that you might need. Good Luck in Your Publishing endevours what ever you way you chose to pursue things
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