Dear Writers,
Welcome to the Self-Publishing Author's Marketplace. I'll do my best to explain what this website is all about.
First of all, let me tell you what we are not. We are not a publisher, publication, editing service, publicist, literary agency, printer, or a scam. We will never ask you for any personal information and we will never ask you to pay us money, nor will we ever offer you our personal information or offer to pay you money.
We are a free information website dedicated to bringing Authors and Readers together. Our goal is to completely eliminate your need for editors, literary agents, publicists, bookstores, libraries and conventional publishers. Of course, these people will always exists, but our goal is to provide a way for writers to bypass all of them and sell books to readers.
All of our Authors print their works through a website called www.lulu.com. It is a FREE print-on-demand self-publishing website. They handle everything involved with the printing of the novel, but nothing else.
Writing a novel falls into the following steps: Outlining, Writing, Editing, Proofreading, Formatting, Printing, Marketing, Selling, and Shipping.
Here is a breakdown of how conventional publishers handle this process:
Outlining: Author
Writing: Author
Editing: Author/Editor*
Proofreading: Author/Editor*
Formatting: Publisher
Printing: Publisher
Marketing: Publisher/Publicist/Agent
Selling: Bookstore/Publicist/Agent
Shipping: Publisher
*It is the Author's responsibility to edit the work enough to make it acceptable to the Editor. After that Editors do a small amount of editing and proofreading. Then their name goes on YOUR book and they take a portion of YOUR money after doing nothing useful.
Here is our new business model.
Outlining/Writing/Editing/Proofreading/Formatting: Author
Printing/Shipping: www.lulu.com
Marketing/Selling: Author and S.P.A.M.
You, as the author, have 2 extra jobs. First of all, you have to format the novel yourself so that lulu.com can print it. This is not as hard as it sounds, since Lulu prints the novel exactly as it appears in their preview. It doesn't take very much work at all to format your novel correctly. A couple days of work at most is nothing when you think of the time you put into writing the thing in the first place. Second of all, you have to help S.P.A.M. market and sell your novel. All this means, is that you tell people about the S.P.A.M. website. We don't require that you link to us on any site or get people to sign up for anything. We have no way of tracking how many people you tell about the site. We trust that you will tell people about the site, because every person that knows about S.P.A.M. is a potential customer who might like your work enough to buy it. It benefits you to tell people about our site, because we provide them a link to where they can buy your book.
When you think about it, it's like we are a bookstore that is offering to put your book on our shelf for sale, except we aren't taking a cut. This is a great deal, and you should get your books listed as soon as possible. There is no risk to joining S.P.A.M. and the potential for reward unlimited. The worst thing that could happen is that no one buys your novel, and that's already happening.
Stop worrying about how you're going to sell your self-published novel. Join today and when people ask about your book, you can tell them proudly that you are a member of the Self-Published Author's Marketplace, and that they can find your books at http://luluspam.blogspot.com. (We will get ourselves a dotcom as soon as I can afford it.)
And remember, use of this website is free. If you benefit from our services, then we appreciate it when you to S.P.A.M.
Thank you for your time,
J. Allen Wentworth
S.P.A.M. Author and Website Coordinator
Self-Published Works: Love Eternal
Now what? WRITE!
