How to Publish & Market a Book Without Jumping Off a Cliff,
by Carol Adler, MFA

Along with excellent, easy to read information, Carol Adler provides hope for what often seems to be a hopeless dream for writers. Regardless of genre, your work can be published if you do your homework and follow certain guidelines. Some of the best books ever written were originally self-published and/or rejected by traditional publishers in the past. But that doesn’t have to happen to you. The electronic age is here. E-books are gaining popularity thanks to hand held reading devices, such as Amazon’s Kindle reader. You have more options now than writers ever had in the past. This exceptional book covers all the information you need to find success as a writer. Highly recommended.

In today’s fast-paced high tech world, it is easy to feel overwhelmed and uncertain. Add to that the fact that the publishing world has completely changed its face in less than ten years. Very little is the same. Technology has replaced a good portion of the old publishing paradigm. How does an author, unless him/herself high tech, find his/her way around?

Being one of those authors who is not high tech, I found Adler’s book to be a godsend. It lays a clear path through the bewildering array of possible and probable technology, programs, offers and opportunities available to us.

Adler quotes Ron Pramschufer from his “Publishing Basics” newsletter, where he delineates an important distinction: “writing is a love, publishing is a business.” If you really want your book to succeed today, for most of us it means stepping beyond our love to do business. Adler has provided a bible on how to do so, complete with pitfalls to beware of and opportunities to nab.

After gobbling up How to Publish & Market a Book Without Jumping Off a Cliff, I felt able to step through the usual haze of confusion induced by technology and say, “Thank you. I believe I can do this now.”