The Independent Author's Manual

by N. D. Author Services [ndas] (Other), J. C. Hendee

Overview

In self-publishing your (e)book, do so as a professional author operating without publisher and/or agent. Ignore hearsay in the self-publishing community as well as unsubstantiated claims by self-proclaimed experts.

• Quality—not quantity—of works mark a true professional.
• Rushing a book to market is a mistake sometimes unrecoverable without extreme (costly) actions.
• After publication release, your reputation is at stake for present and past works bearing your name.
• Switching to a [new] pseudonym will not save you. You are then starting over in building reputation and readership.

These and other ill-advised practices separate a "self-publisher" [SP] from an "independent author" [IA]; These terms are not synonyms.

Become an IA through professional practices and publications of quality. The true measure of a (e)book valued by customers—only "readers" after a (e)book is "read"—is if the (e)book is read more than once by the same reader.

There is no greater mark of excellence and professionalism.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940163013845
Publisher:	N.D. Author Services, NDAS
Publication date:	06/12/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

J.C. Hendee has been in­volved in the publishing industry for 30+ years, including 13 years as a full­­­time, con­tracted author in col­la­bor­ation with his spouse Barb. [Pen­­guin-Put­­nam / Pen­­guin Ran­dom House]

From university through an M.A. in English and beyond, he advised, initiated and/­or managed 17 specialty press and/­or academic press serial publications. He has also managed many more book publications for other authors (fiction, non-fiction, and creative non-fiction.)

In graduate studies, he founded and administrated the serial anthology FUGUE: The Literary Journal of the University of Idaho; [College of Letters & Sciences, English Dept.] After 30+ years since its inception, this publication is still in print as of 2020.

He founded N.D. Author Services [NDAS] in late 2013 with an international staff of five living in different countries around the world. All have known and interacted (online) with J.C. for 12 to 30+ years. The staff is multi-ideo­­logi­cal, representing animist, ása­trú, bud­­dhist, islamic and secularist belief systems.

J.C. is the [contemporary] animist among them.