You've Written Your Book. Now What?

Here at Self Published Author.com, we offer tools, advice, and resources to help you through the publishing process. Bowker is the official ISBN agency in the US and Australia. We're excited about authors taking the publishing process into their own hands, and we're here to help however you need it.

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Interested in Adapting Your Book into a Screenplay?

by Richard Smith
Bowker | Tue Jul 7, 2020

Storyrocket LIVE

Special Invitation:

If you’ve thought of taking your book to the next level and adapting it into a screenplay, join Storyrocket.com’s FREE professional development series Storyrocket LIVE. Our special guest is one of the most respected screenwriters in Hollywood — J.V. Hart. Hart’s credits include: Contact, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Hook, Sahara and many more.

Hear his fascinating anecdotes of working with Hollywood’s biggest directors and insights that you won’t want to miss. There will be time for Q&As and we’ll announce a special opportunity to work directly with J.V. at the end of the show.

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Make the Grade in the Homeschool Market

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Tue Jun 16, 2020

The academic market is an opportune segment for publishers because it uses books as a foundation for its existence. It includes, but is not limited to schools, foundations, research organizations, professional associations, libraries, students, and individual educators. This marketplace impacts people of all ages, from preschoolers to professionals. Regardless of grade, age, major, and choice of home, public, or private education, people’s need for books is ubiquitous.

But, you say, “Public schools are closed, and no one is sure when they will reopen. How can this be an opportune time to sell to them?” The answer is to sell to the homeschool sub-segment of the academic market.

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Nowhere to Sell Books? Know Where to Sell Books.

by Brian Jud
Bowker | Tue Jun 2, 2020

Bookstores are currently closed due to the coronavirus. Authors and publishers are waiting it out, hoping to sell their books through those that eventually reopen. But if you look around there are many places through which you can sell books now – think supermarkets and pharmacies.

There are tens of thousands of supermarkets and pharmacies of all sizes around the country. Many of these stores sell books. In the past, most book sales through these outlets were mass market paperbacks, but today’s superstores carry a wide variety of books, cards, and magazines.

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