Self Publishing Notes For Beginners

Here's a few notes from the field, your early steps on the yellow brick road to self publishing on line.  It's simple, not to be confused with easy.  Please know that the journey is worth the drama.


HOW TO CREATE YOUR BOOK?:


Kathleen Gage has a great course on how to create a money making product. I recommend you take her class.  It's one of the few paid steps you will read me recommend in this process.


How you create your book is basically up to you. A basic outline I use for folks with research material is to take their papers and organize them so that they tell the story that leads to your conclusion.  Step away for a few days.  Come back and write an outline of your story, either on a computer or by hand. 



An old school set of computer training notes on how to use a computer are posted at www.computerhealth.org/htc, lessons 3-5 are on word processing & desk top publishing basics.  The program has been updated since these notes, but the basics are the same.  


The book publishing process is in essence you write and edit your book (or pay someone to to that for you), then make (print) a .pdf file (which is the file professional printers use to make books) of your interior. Your cover can either be made by you or use one of the online tools to build it.  Two files (cover and interior) equal one book. Printer specifications differ and they tell you about page and file size. Upload to an on demand printer and sell your books.  You can also sell cheaper ebook editions on various sites.


In most cases, setting up accounts or subscribing to a newsletter are free. Only a few of the services and sites listed come with minimal charge, especially considering the value for the dollar. This process can be done with no money down, then invest profits in sales and marketing. Choose based on your needs and budget.


Set up your accounts, follow instructions and you're on your way.  This list is limited to my experience and intended as a starting point. Use your search engines to find companies that best suit your needs.  I'll update later this spring to add more services, teachers and opportunities to promote your work. Search the web for more information on things like free press release services.  Also consider your own show on www.ustream.tv 


There are paid services on some of these sites, like CreateSpace, that offers professional editing, video making, etc. so if you have the funds go for it.  Otherwise, start with the free account and build from there.


Reorganize the information to fit in the story outline.


Edit, Edit, Edit. Add images if any. Proof, Proof, Proof. Make a .pdf and upload to www.createspace.com account.  Below are the details for after you've made your final .pdf, as per size specifications found at createspace.  


MONEY ACCOUNTS





www.bankofamerica.com (or your bank's web address i.e. www.chase.com ) to accept and make payments
www.createspace.com and/or www.lulu.com - on demand printers and book builders


SALES TOOLS


www.cafepress.com - promo items for sale
www.ebay.com - on line auction site for books an ebooks
www.jagetit.com - on line auction site
www.amazon.com - Under features and services consider registering for Amazon Associates, and Sell Your Stuff
www.clickbank.com a vehicle to sell electronic versions of your book (ebook) It's free to sell other people's products on commission and fee based to have other folks sell your books.
www.youtube.com free place to run book promos, hold classes.
www.moodle.com set up interactive classes 




MARKETING TOOLS


www.streetsmartsmarketing.com Kathleen Gage is a great resource person to help with marketing.  Sign up for her free newsletter and as soon as you can afford it, take some of her training.


www.facebook.com - free social networking tool
www.skype.com - free video phone
www.twitter.com - free social networking tool
www.myspace.com - free social networking tool
http://www.posterous.com/ - cross platform (different sites) posting 


Do an On line press kit. How to build an online marketing kit?
Free Press Release distribution www.free-press-release.com , www.prlog.org , www.newspapersol.com


This one is not free.  www.godaddy.com is an inexpensive way to hook up your own website.


Plan a virtual book tour - no cost promotion via on line radio and tv shows on ustream, youtube, cable, satellite, broadcast via Skype http://bookmarketingmaven.typepad.com/virtual_book_tour_magic


HOOKING IT ALL UP


www.tweetdeck.com - allows you to cross post on myspace, facebook, twitter and other social media
www.linkedin.com - professional social media network.
www.google.com (your google account gets you a Youtube channel and a blogspot blog, and many other benefits,  www.hotmail.com or www.yahoo.com - to set up secondary email (consider one personal and one for business)


That will get you going. Happy Publishing.




On demand books the railroad has helped publish that use the above links  include (soon to be promoted through Kathleen Gage's system) :


On CreateSpace / Amazon


Alternative Medicine: Hemp For Victory: The Wonder Herb  by Richard M. Davis, USA Hemp Museum


Based on the USA Hemp Museum's Medical Room, this book is a tour of information, a sampling of articles and photographs explaining how medical marijuana works from the perspective of the doctors, patients, caregivers, farmers, cooks and the Physicians Desk Reference Herbal Edition.


Every medical marijuana clubs, professional and customer should take this tour and better use the hemp tool that we have.


Black History: Black People And Their Place In World History by Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA
I met Dr. Vaughn via my cousin Lloyd Hardin when I first came to California.  He had written a series of articles for the Los Angeles Sentinel from his floor to ceiling room of Black History books.


Black history is Dr. Vaughn's passion and his insights revolutionized my life.  From his articles I learned about Black Wall Street, who the 5 other Black presidents are, Queen Nzinga, Henry Flipper and the real wild west.  This book is a combination of Dr. Vaughn's articles and photographic supporting evidence…a wonderful journey that helps with the transformation from history to truthstory.


Economics: Hemp For Victory: The Trillion Dollar Crop by Richard M. Davis, Founder & Curator
If you're tired of the whining about how we are in economic trouble as a town, state, nation and world, then this is the book for you.


This museum tour takes you on a journey among business people, professors and lawyers who make the case in plain language for the many benefits that come from the simple change to a hemp based economy.  This trillion dollar crop is key to helping us save ourselves.


Read, meet many of the leaders in the movement to restore sanity to economics by removing the barriers to freedom, hemp prohibition.


Environment-Global Warming: Hemp For Victory: A Global Warming Solution by Richard M. Davis
The solution to global warming is simple.  Since the problem is too much excess CO2 in the atmosphere the solution is to remove the excess CO2.


Hemp is a biomass champion that removes the excess CO2 as it grows, aerates soil up to six feet deep, burns clean as biofuel and can be made into 50,000 plus products.


To learn how to use hemp to help us reverse global warming, this is a great place to start for an understanding of the hemp solution.


LULU / AMAZON


Justice: Prelude To Intimacy by Ira Einhorn


This first Earth Day team member was framed without evidence  


Ira Einhorn is still serving jail time for a murder there is no scientific evidence he committed…no blood, DNA, hair, witnesses, nothing.  He claims his attorney, who was shortly after that “elected” to the senate, told him to run because it was a frame.


Read about his years on the run and the reasons he thinks he was framed. 


LULU


Magnetic Energy: DePalma Free Energy And The N-Machine by the late MIT Professor Bruce DePalma


The late Bruce DePalma created a magnetic generator that works with a Faraday motor to generate free energy.  His death, like that of other free energy inventors, was mysterious.


With DePalma’s friend David Crockett Williams, we compiled his papers in a logical manner and as per Bruce’s instructions, making it available for future research.

Using The Keys Out Of Babylon

COMMUNICATION AS
THE KEYS OUT OF BABYLON

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
HAVE GIVEN US
THE ABILITY TO ALL SPEAK ONE LANGUAGE

The use of technology is both powerful and impressive. We've mastered the keys that unlock the power of the Tower of Babel. We are speaking one language, web. We are limited only by our imaginations now. Imagine wisely.

Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, MSNBC, CNN, Yahoo, Google, Blogger and other "social" media are tools. We are showing the rest of the world how to use truth to free ourselves. Chaos or common sense? Health care access or not? Freedom or indentured servitude? 

We have the keys to escape from the land of Babel, as foretold in Genesis. There is the first ripple of the great change in consciousness that is going on. Answered prayer or 100th Monkey. Enough of us have chosen good over evil to make a difference in our future.

Humanity must be free to save ourselves. For example, here in the states it's illegal to use a plant that is a biomass champion at pulling excess CO2 from the atmosphere (a leading cause of global warming), is an effective 5,000 year old medicine (medical marijuana), a strong building material (from concrete to the couch), and a clean and easily renewable paper source. We have the ability to save ourselves from many modern problems, yet the hemp plant remains illegal. We could grow our way out of this economic crisis, yet some folks are still forced to choose between food and medicine.  Are you tired of the tail wagging you. I sure am.

I urge all to join in prayer and unite as one people of the world. The power of prayer is liberating and the color green is unifying.

We have the keys to escape from the land of Babel, as foretold in Genesis.

Using technology, our ideas are shared without regard to race, color, creed, religion or social order. 

As Stuart Wilde says in his awesome book MIRACLES "Fundamental structures are being swept away in an avalanche of awareness, and we're no longer prepared just to read about great miracle-makers; we want to have the same experience."

I have a theory that enough people chose good over evil in WWII that we were given the computer, the Enigma Machine, as the keys out of the sadness of Babel. 

In the Information Age, where we can all communicate in the language of technology, we are limited only by our imaginations.

Let's imagine peace, health, prosperity, joy and really good times.

Genesis 11: 5-9

"5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained form them, which they have imagined to do.

7. Go, let us go down, and there confounded their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left off to build the city.

9. Therefore, is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth, and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon to the face of all the earth."

We are the Next Testament - One working for the highest good for all concerned. Go Forward. Stay On Target. Provide for at least 7 generations ahead.

Using The Keys Out Of Babylon

COMMUNICATION AS
THE KEYS OUT OF BABYLON

COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
HAVE GIVEN US
THE ABILITY TO ALL SPEAK ONE LANGUAGE

The use of technology is both powerful and impressive. They've mastered the keys that unlock the power of the Tower of Babel.

Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, MSNBC, CNN, Yahoo, Google, Blogger and other "social" media are tools. We are showing the rest of the world how to use truth to free ourselves.

We have the keys to escape from the land of Babel, as foretold in Genesis. There is the first ripple of the great change in consciousness that is going on. Answered prayer or 100th Monkey.

Humanity must be free to save ourselves. For example, here in the states it's illegal to use a plant that is a biomass champion at pulling excess CO2 from the atmosphere (a leading cause of global warming), is an effective 5,000 year old medicine (medical marijuana), a strong building material (from concrete to the couch), and a clean and easily renewable paper source. We have the ability to save ourselves from many modern problems, yet the hemp plant remains illegal. We could grow our way out of this economic crisis, yet some folks are still forced to choose between food and medicine. The American people should follow the lead of the Iranian people and use our balls to stand up to our government. Are you tired of the tail wagging you. I sure am.

I urge all to join with all people in their journey to prayer on Friday and unite as one people of the world. Wear green if you can. The power of prayer is liberating and the color green is unifying.

We have the keys to escape from the land of Babel, as foretold in Genesis.

Using technology, our ideas are shared without regard to race, color, creed, religion or social order. As Stuart Wilde says in his awesome book MIRACLES

"Fundamental structures are being swept away in an avalanche of awareness, and we're no longer prepared just to read about great miracle-makers; we want to have the same experience."

I have a theory that enough people chose good over evil in WWII that we were given the computer, the Enigma Machine, as the keys out of the sadness of Babel.

In the Information Age, where we can all communicate in the language of technology, we are limited only by our imaginations.

Let's imagine peace, health, prosperity, joy and really good times.

Genesis 11: 5-9

5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.

6. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language and this they begin to do, and now nothing will be restrained form them, which they have imagined to do.

7. Go, let us go down, and there confounded their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.

8. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth, and they left off to build the city.

9. Therefore, is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth, and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon to the face of all the earth.