Shoestring Book Publishing Welcome Book by Shoestring Book Publishing

Welcome Book By Allan R. Emery & Alison Breskin

Shoestring Book Publishing, Maine, USA

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Published by; Shoestring Book Publishing. Maine, USA Copyright ÂŠ 2015 By, Alison Breskin & Allan Emery All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form, electronic, mechanical; or by other means whatsoever, without written permission from the author. Except for the case of brief quotations within reviews and critical articles. Layout and design by Shoestring Book Publishing For information address; shoestringpublishing4u@gmail.com www.shoestringbookpublishing.com

Acknowledgements Shoestring Book publishing would like to acknowledge Kevin Watt, and his exceptionally wonderful online Poetry Site, Allpoetry.com, for creating a vehicle, in which we could connect with many poets and novelists, with a passion for self- publishing! Join Allpoetry for free Enter Poetry Contests & Win Prizes!

Contents

Acknowledgements v Preface ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 About Shoestring Book Publishing 4 Chapter 2 3 East Steps to Get Started Publishing 13 Chapter 3 Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made your $50.00 down payment, now what? 16 Chapter 4 Font Examples to Choose for Your Book 19 Chapter 5 How to save an image as 300 dpi, using Gimp 25 Chapter 6 Shoestring Book Publishing Price Chart 28 Chapter 7 Lulu Bulk Discount Levels 39 Chapter 8 CreateSpace Book Size Options 43 Chapter 9 Lulu Book Size options 47 Chapter 10 How to use CreateSpace Book Cost Calculator 49 Chapter 11 The Shoestring Book Publishing Truthbrary 51 Chapter 12 Terms & Conditions 55 Chapter 13 Quarterly Royalty Payment Schedule 64 vi

Chapter 14 How to Order Books 71 Chapter 15 Shipping Information 74 Chapter 16 Two Page View for Adobe Reader 78 Chapter 17 IRS W9 Form 80 Chapter 18 KDP Account Set up 82 Chapter 19 Public Relations; Book Marketing 86 Chapter 20 How to Write a Book Proposal 96 Chapter 21 How to write a press release 100 Chapter 22 Submissions to Literary Magazines 103 Chapter 23 How to add your book to the Allpoetry Bookstore 109 Chapter 24 About Poetry Chapbooks 112 Chapter 25 Punctuating Poetry! 116 Chapter 26 The Difference Between Traditional Publishing, Vanity Publishing and Independent Self-Publishing 119 Chapter 27 Understanding the ISBN 126 Chapter 28 Shoestring Book Publishing is NOT a Vanity Press! 129 Chapter 29 Testimonies for Shoestring Book Publishing 132

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Chapter 30 About the Founders of Shoestring Book Publishing 139 Chapter 31 Book Formatting Form 143

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Preface About Shoestring Book Publishing: Shoestring Book Publishing will edit, proofread, format, and self-publish your book for about a third of the price of most other book designers, including CreateSpace, Outskirts Press, Author House and Lulu! We publish poets and novelists who otherwise couldn't afford to have their book prepared for publishing and self-published! We are poets and novelists ourselves, as well as avid book designers, editors and proofreaders. We have an understanding of the poets and the novelists mind, that we incorporate into the design of every book, so that not only is it professionally designed, but it is a mere work of art! Shoestring Book Publishing is an inexpensive means to selfpublish books and information manuals. If you write poetry, short stories, essays, fiction novels, non-fiction novels, or simply wish to publish your Genealogy and make it available to the public for sale or just for friends and family members to read, we do everything from editing, proofreading, graphic design book cover design, book formatting, typesetting, ghost writing, book proposals and help with self-publishing and marketing tips. The cost for most books is only $5 per page. Authors receive 10% off their first book! Contact shoestringpublishing4u@gmail.com for more information.

Introduction Why do you want a book? What will you do with it? How important is it that your book is listed on Amazon? Imagine Your book in Your hands! Is that exciting to you? If so, you're in the right place! Shoestring Book Publishing can get you started on professionally preparing your book for selfpublishing and submissions to large and small presses today! We Prepare for Publishing: Fiction Novels, Non Fiction Novels, Custom Poetry Books, Poetry Chapbooks, Children's Books, How-to Books, Autobiographies, Product Manuals, Comic Books, Anthologies and Mad Manifestos! Fast, Fun and Affordable self-publishing to Amazon.com! Shoestring Book Publishing offers a service to authors of extremely simplified and absolutely affordable quality book self-publishing. The smart choice, for the wise independent authors voice! Our Book Design prices are less than 1/3 of what most other book designer services charge! Plus, we offer more than what most other book designers offer at less than 1/3 price! Browse â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Storeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; conveniently located at our Website: www.shoestringbookpublishing.com for the very perfect publishing package to suit your needs! We have something Shoestring Book Publishing

for everyone who wishes to self-publish a stunning and unique book. We guarantee, if you can find a lower price at any other book designing company, who delivers the same quality as we do, for the same service, we will match that price! Make payments, interest free, as low as 100.00 a month, until the balance is paid in full! Retain All Rights to your Book! No Complicated Contacts to Sign! Set your own price and profit margin! Original custom interior design, have total control over the design of your book! Book completed within 90 days or less! Enjoy unlimited international phone talk time! Your book will be added to Shoestring book Publishingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bookstore; The Truthbrary! Authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s receive 10% off first book published with us, discount applies to any publishing package! Free cover designed with first book published, in paperback and hardcover format! Free galley hardcopy paperback mailed to your doorstep! 2

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Free book marketing advice! Free ISBN and self-publishing!

Only three things to get started Publishing Your Book! 1. A 50.00 down payment. 2. Your completed 'Book Formatting Form.' 3. Your manuscript emailed to us!

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Chapter 1 About Shoestring Book Publishing

Firstly, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to thank you for your interest in Shoestring Book Publishing for your book publishing needs. We are a small, albeit, big hearted, self-taught, book Designing / SelfPublishing Service, happily nested in the beautiful State of Maine, USA! We began our journey as Shoestring Book Publishing, in the year of 2012, when we realized, how much joy we would receive, sharing the knowledge and expertise weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d gained, from Self-Publishing several of our own books. We are two people, with a passion for writing and SelfPublishing Poetry Books, Science Fiction Novels, and SelfHelp Spiritual Books. We believe in Love, as Love, is the principals and/or qualities, we run our quaint business by. We value our customers with enormous empathetic respect, and encourage you to inquire with us, as many questions as you wish, about Self-Publishing. We are always welcoming to your feedback, about your self-publishing experience with us, and on how we can improve our rapidly growing and ever dynamic little business! We are available to talk by phone anytime internationally, given a scheduled appointment. Otherwise, you may reach us during 9-5 EST Monday through Friday. You may email us at any time you wish, with questions or concerns at shoestringpublishing4u@gmail.com. Please allow up to 48 hours for response to most emails. You will have several chances to make corrections and changes to your book, during and after the designing process. Corrections generally do not incur an extra fee, whereas changes do. You will receive a PDF proof when we have completed the design process. After that, we will upload the PDF of your book to CreateSpace, where they will issue us a Shoestring Book Publishing

CreateSpace PDF proof within about three days. We will then email the CreateSpace PDF proof of your book to you for another round of review. When you are satisfied with the way the CreateSpace PDF proof looks, we will go ahead and order you, your galley hardcopy (paperback version) of your book, and we will mail this to you via standard shipping, to the address you have provided us in the Book Formatting Form. Standard shipping: May be delivered by USPS or UPS. Estimated delivery date for standard shipping will be 15 days from date of order. With shipping and printing approximately 16-18 days. Once you’ve received the galley hardcopy of your book via mail, we then ask you to review this galley copy, and let us know of any further corrections or changes. After you have approved the Galley hardcopy, this is the time to let us know what you would like to set the price of your paperback book at. The paperback book published through CreateSpace, will entail a Minimum List Price. The minimum list price is based on a Minimum Price Threshold, determined by CreateSpace, in respect to the sales channels chosen. (Also, page count and whether your book is in black and white or color effect the minimum price threshold of your book) Below is a description of The Minimum Price Threshold, exactly as described by CreateSpace:

“Minimum Price Threshold” “The minimum price threshold is based on the manufacturing and distribution costs for your title. We do not publish titles with list prices below the minimum price threshold.

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Your title's minimum price threshold will vary based on your currently selected sales channels.

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You can lower your minimum price threshold by changing your selected sales channels.

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If you set your list price at the minimum price threshold, you will not earn royalty payments on all of your selected sales channels.

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In some channels, the minimum list price may be greater than the manufacturing and distribution costs. In this scenario, you will be required to set your list price higher and receive a higher royalty.”

Shoestring Book Publishing will choose all of the available distribution channels for your book, unless you indicate to us otherwise on the Book Formatting Form. Here is an example of all of the available distribution channels through createspace: Standard Distribution FREE

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PAPERBACK version of your book as a galley copy is free with standard shipping, whereas the HARDCOVER galley version of your book is not free. If you’ve purchased an ebook, or an ebook is included in your package, your ebook will be published through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, where we will include your book for the offers available through KDP select. If an ebook is not included in your package, and you wish to purchase one for 69.95, you may do so, at The Store, at our website. Also, please indicate that you wish to have an ebook published when you fill out the Book Formatting Form. Within the pages of this book, contains everything you’ll need to know about the self-publishing process. You will find instructions on how to order books, how royalties are distributed, shipping information, terms and conditions, and public relations information (marketing). If at any time, you wish for us to stop work on your manuscript the cost of the work we have completed up to that point will be pro-rated. Please notify us by email ASAP. Half of your payment will be due after we’ve received your manuscript, and you’ve chosen the fonts for your book, so that we may do a page estimate. Turnaround time for the second down payment will be approximately 1-2 weeks. At which time, we will issue you a detailed bill with an invoice via email. Estimated total is subject to change based on any additional text and/or pictures you may choose to add to your book thereafter. We will date the invoice for the second down payment to be due in 10 days’ time. We will not continue any 10

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further work on your book at this point, until we have received the second down payment. The remainder of the balance will be due after you’ve received the CreateSpace PDF proof, in which you’ve approved. After you approve the CreateSpace PDF proof, we will issue your final bill, or the remainder of your balance to be due within 10 days’ time. At this point, the bulk of the work has been done, and we still encourage you to review the paperback galley hardcopy of your book for corrections and/or changes, which you will receive in the mail by standard shipping, unless you advise us to ship it otherwise. Standard shipping for paperback books within the U.S. will take approximately 16 to 18 days, depending upon where the business days fall, and if there are any Holidays present. Also, certain weather conditions may affect the estimated delivery date of your book. Galley copies which ship outside of the US will take on average one month to arrive based on the same conditions listed above. We will let you know when your book ships, this way you can know when to expect it to arrive. If you wish to upgrade the shipping from Standard Shipping, please let us know, and we will invoice you for the cost difference. The first galley copy of your book is free with Standard shipping only. For any other form of shipping, you will receive an invoice issued from PayPal. If you’d like to pay by check, please let us know by email. Thanks again for choosing Shoestring book Publishing! Sincerely,

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Allan R. Emery, Chief Editor, typographer, graphic designer, Co-owner Shoestring Book Publishing

Alison Wakefield, Public Relations, Editorial Assistant, Boo designer, Co-owner Shoestring Book Publishing

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Chapter 2 3 East Steps to Get Started Publishing

There are 3 easy steps to beginning the journey of publishing your legacy 1.) Complete and return the Book Formatting Form. Please note; that by completing the Book Formatting Form, and returning it to us, the agreement(s) that you make with us, are included in the Terms and Conditions, which are at the end of the Book Formatting Form. We do not retain any right to your book. All rights to your book remain yours. 2.) Make a 50.00 down payment to us through PayPal;shoestringpublishing4u@gmail.com Visit 'The Store' at our Website for details on publishing packages and more: http://shoestringbookpublishing.weebly.com/the-store.html 3.) A PDF or Word Document of your books manuscript. If you are a member of Allpoetry, and would like to provide us with a list of poems you wish to be included in your book, we will extract these poems for you, at no extra charge. Please be sure to include all material(s) you wish to be included in your book in the manuscript, and/or Book Formatting Form such as; Author Biography, Dedication, Preface, Introduction, Acknowledgments, Forward, Afterward. All of these additional contents are optional. There will be a section for each in the Book Formatting Form, with an explanation as to what they entail. We will ghostwrite Author Biographies, Introductions, Prefaces, Dedications, Acknowledgements, Forwards or Afterwards at no additional fee, upon request. Once these 3 easy steps have been completed, you are on your way to getting your legacy out there for the world to 14

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Chapter 3 Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made your $50.00 down payment, now what?

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made your 50.00 down payment, now what? Here is an overview of what we need from you to design your book efficiently: The time to edit your poetry is now. Once you send your manuscript, your job of editing is done, for better or for worse. Once we receive your manuscript additional edits that you wish to make will incur a charge, of 1.00 per page. Please provide by email as a word document, PDF, RTF, copy and paste email, or Allpoetry list as a manuscript in the order your poems are to appear in your book. Once you issue us the manuscript, if you wish for your poems to remain in the order provided you must instruct us to do so in the Book Formatting Form. By completing the Book Formatting Form, you are giving us the instruction manual on how to build your book. It is your responsibility to tell us exactly how you want your book designed. If you do not instruct us within The Book Formatting Form, to arrange your poems in a particular order, and later decide after the PDF proof of your book is issued, that you would like to rearrange, remove, or add any poems, there will be an addition charge. Please provide all material in your edited manuscript. The fee for rearranging, removing, or adding any poems AFTER the PDF proof is issued to you, by us, is 5.00 per page. Corrections are mistakes in the proof. But if you wish to change things in the language, or punctuation that are not incorrect, that is an edit and not a correction.

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If you have purchased the professional Poetry Book Publishing package with correction editing and proof reading, this includes punctuation and grammar , but does not include substantive editing changes in the language. Basically, material which is already correct that you wish to change, is not included. Substantive editing is .05 cents per word. Before we begin work on your manuscript, you will receive a document of four sample font styles which you may choose from. Once you choose your font from this list, or give us the specific fonts you would like for your book, this is the font your book will be designed in. If you decide to change your font after you’ve received your PDF proof, there will be an additional fee of 25.00 for font changes. If you choose to have you pages facing, meaning two page poems will face on left and right pages, we cannot guarantee we will be able to keep your poems in the order you have issued them to us, because we must rearrange the poems. If you wish for your poems to stay in the exact order you’ve issued, we will not be able to face your pages. If you choose to have your poems on facing pages, it is your responsibility to let us know if there is a certain poem you wish to be the first poem in the book, and/or the last. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to instruct us on how you want your poems to be arranged within the Book Formatting Form, along with all other details that entail Book Formatting. Oh, and have fun!

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Chapter 4 Font Examples to Choose for Your Book

Font Selection Font selection helps determine the aesthetics of any book. There is no reason for you to study and become a font expert. We have created four examples of font styles. All you have to do is pick one from the attachment and email us the name. We have included four sets which we call:    

Formal Academic Fancy Folksy

Take a look and either choose which you like or tell us you do not care and we will choose what we think is appropriate for your writing. Keep in mind, we will not likely use exactly the fonts shown, but they will be from the same family and have similar characteristics.

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Formal:

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The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see The wantonest singing birds, Are lips- and all thy melody Of lip-begotten wordsThine eyes, in Heaven of heart enshrined, Then desolately fall, O God! on my funereal mind Like starlight on a pallThy heart- thy heart!I wake and sigh, And sleep to dream till day Of the truth that gold can never buyOf the baubles that it may.

Edgar Allan Poe

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Academic:

Sonnet Sixty-Four When I have seen by Time's fell hand defac'd The rich-proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal, slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss, and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate â&#x20AC;&#x201C; That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose. -

William Shakespeare

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Fancy:

Sonnets from the Portuguese 43 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being and ideal grace. I love thee to the level of every dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for right; I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. -

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Folksy:

Nothing Gold Can Stay Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

- Robert Frost

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Chapter 5 How to save an image as 300 dpi, using Gimp

Many authors who publish a book with us, will have at least one picture in their book, and that is the Author’s Biography Picture. This can be any picture you favor of yourself. A headshot, or maybe a picture of you doing something you enjoy, like sports, or being artistic. All that the Author’s Biography picture requires, is that it is a picture of you! This will give the reader a visual image of the author of whom they’ve read, or are reading. We recommend including an Author’s Biography Picture with your Author’s Biography, although it is not required. Any action which helps the reader connect with the author is a good/positive one! When you submit your Author’s Biography picture to us, via email, as a picture attachment, or copy and paste to the email content, it is best if you make sure your image is at least, a minimum of 300 dpi. To ensure that the image you are sending is at least a minimum of 300 dpi, simply right click on the picture, and then choose properties. It will tell you in properties, what the dpi of your picture is. Dpi stands for Dots Per Inch. All of the pictures you send us for your book must be at least 300 dpi. If you do not present your images to us for your book’s interior, and cover, in at least 300 dpi, There is no guarantee that the images will not be blurry when printed in the book’s hardcopy. If for any reason, you cannot submit your images to us in 300 dpi, please let us know in your email when you send the pictures, and we may make the images 300 dpi for you, at a cost of 3.00 each. There are other picture programs in which you can adjust the dpi of your images besides GIMP, such as Photoshop. We suggest GIMP, because it is a free program.

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You can download GIMP, a free picture editing software. Here are the instructions on how to save an image as 300 dpi. To ensure top quality when we upload your book's file to CreateSpace, please submit your pictures to us in 300 dpi.

To save an image as 300 dpi::

Open in Gimp. Select “Image” X” Resolution = 300 Y Resolution = 300 Then “scale”

To save Gimp Image as JPEG: File à Export à save as JPEG

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Chapter 6 Shoestring Book Publishing Price Chart

Shoestring Book Publishing Price Chart Discounted Totals Based on First Book Customers. If this is your second book, regular non-discounted prices will Apply. If you can find a cheaper price for less than what we offer, we will match that price. All prices are in USD. Details about prices can be found at The Store, located at our website. Most Publishing packages are based on 108 pages. To calculate how much more these packages would be, per each page over 108 pages, add the amount it costs per each page additional as indicated.

Item Quantity Discount Cost each total Professional Poetry Book Publishing Package 1 (Without Editing) 108 text pages 10% first book 5.00 page Reg-540.00 d/c-486.00

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Professional Poetry Book Publishing Package 2 (With Editing) 108 text pages 10% first book 6.00 page Reg-648.00 d/c-583.20

Professional Fiction Book Publishing Package With Proofreading Editing. 200 Pages 10% first book 1,400.00 Reg – 1,400.00 d/c – 1,260.00

Custom Chapbook Package 1 (without Editing) 40 pages 10% first book 349.00 Reg-349.00

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d/c-314.10

Custom Chapbook Package 2 (With Editing) 40 pages 10% first book 399.00 Reg - 399.00 d/c- 359.10

Professional Children’s Picture Book Package without editing. (Addtl’ pages 5.00 each, plus price of addtl’ pictures.) 24 pages 10% first book 299.00 Reg – 299.00 d/c – 269.10

Professional Children’s Picture Book Package With Editing (Addtl’ pages 6.00 each, plus price of addtl’ pictures.) 24 pages 10% off first book

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349.00 Reg – 349.99 d/c – 314.10

Book Marketing Package 1 n/a 750.00 750.00

Deluxe 200 page Book Publishing and Marketing Package with proofreading editing. (Addtl’ pages 5.00 each.) 1 10% First Book 3,000.00 Reg – 3,000.00 d/c – 2,700.00

One Piece Book Cover Art 1 Free first book

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85.00 Reg-85.00 ea d/c-free

Dust Jacket for Hardcover 1 n/a 75.00 75.00

Pictures Provided to us 1 10% first book 3.00 Depends upon quantity

Small Pictures we Provide 1 10% first book 3.00 Depends upon quantity

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Medium Pictures we Provide 1 10% first book 5.00 Depends upon Quantity

Large Pictures we Provide 1 10% first book 6.00 Depends upon quantity

One page Picture Background 1 10% first book 8.00 Depends upon quantity

Two Page Picture Background 1 10% first book

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15.00 Depends upon quantity

ISBN 1 n/a 24.99 24.99 each

ISBN/Barcode 1 n/a 49.99 45.99 each

Advanced Editing n/a Price upon appraisal

Proofreading Editing 1

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n/a 0.02 cents per word Depends on # of words in book

Line Editing 1 n/a 0.05 cents per word Depends on # of words in book

Substantive Editing 1 n/a 0.10 cents per word Depends of # of words in book

Sales Description (Blurb) 1 10%first book 25.00 25.00 each

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Research 1 n/a 16.00 hour Depends on amount hours

Poetry Book Proposal 1 n/a 400.00 400.00

Novel Book Proposal â&#x20AC;&#x201C;40,000 to 60,000 words 1 n/a

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750.00 850.00

Ghostwriting Per hour (Includes book design and publishing) n/a 10% first book 40.00 hour Depends upon hours

Exemplary ebook Package 1 n/a 69.95 Reg- 69.95

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Chapter 7 Lulu Bulk Discount Levels

Bulk discounts are available for the products listed below and are specific to the currency in which you make your purchase. For your convenience, bulk discounts are applied to your shopping cart during checkout. The table below lists the discount tiers by print package, quantity, and currency. Please Note: These discounts do not apply to products created in Studio such as calendars, photo books, and cookbooks.

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Bulk Discount Levels

Bulk discounts are available for the products listed below and are specific to the currency in which you make your purchase. For your convenience, bulk discounts are applied to your shopping cart during checkout. The table below lists the discount tiers by print package, quantity, and currency. Note: Bulk Discounts do not apply to Standard Paperback products in the USA store.

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60 - 119

10.0% 10.0% 10.0% 10.0% 10.0%

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18.0% 22.5% 17.5% 22.5% 22.5%

1200+

20.0% 25.0% 20.0% 25.0% 25.0%

15 - 29

3.0%

2.5%

30 - 59

8.0%

7.5%

60 - 119

10.0% 10.0% 10.0%

10.0% 10.0%

120 - 299 13.0% 15.0% 12.5%

15.0% 15.0%

300 - 599 15.0% 17.5% 15.0%

17.5% 17.5%

600 1199

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20.0% 20.0%

1200+

20.0% 22.5% 20.0%

22.5% 22.5%

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Chapter 8 CreateSpace Book Size Options

As per listed exactly on the CreateSpace Website: â&#x20AC;&#x153;CreateSpace Book Trim Sizes. We recommend 6 x 9 for most poetry books, and novels. It is the most popular size and offers the widest range of distribution channels. Most Popular Trim Sizes will be available in the CreateSpace estore, Amazon.com, and expanded distribution. Must be between 24 and 828 pages. Color books between 24 and 500 pages. 5x8 5.25 x 8 5.5 x 8.5 6x9 More Industry Standard Choices. Will not be available for expanded distribution. Will be available for sale in the CreateSpace estore and on Amazon.com. All sizes must be between 24 and 828 pages, except for 8.5 x 11, White paper 630 pages, cream paper 570 pages. Color books, between 24 and 500 pages. 5.06 x 7.81 6.14 x 9.25 6.69 x 9.61 7 x 10 7.44 x 9.69 7.5 x 9.25 8 x 10 8.5 x 11 Custom trim sizes that will not be available for expanded distribution 8.25 x 6

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8.25 x 8.25 8.5 x 8.5 Enter your own trim size "Enter my own size" trim sizes can be sold on Amazon.com and your estore, but are ineligible for the Bookstores and Online Retailers distribution outlet within the EDC. Cannot be larger than 8.5" x 11.69" (21.59 cm x 29.69 cm) Inches

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CreateSpace book cost calculator. Calculate the manufacturing cost of your book and the shipping, by entering the number of pages of your book, the trim size, color or black and white interior, and amount of books to be shipped. https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/%23content7 Trim Size The final size of your book after it is printed, bound, and trimmed is called the trim size. Trim sizes are always indicated as width by height, and are measured in inches, unless noted otherwise. For example, a trim size of 6 x 9 means the printed book will be six inches wide and nine inches tall. Industry Standard and Custom Trim Sizes

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Industry standard trim sizes can be sold on Amazon.com and your eStore, and are eligible for all distribution outlets within the Expanded Distribution Channel (EDC). Custom trim sizes can be sold on Amazon.com and your eStore, but are ineligible for the Bookstores and Online Retailers distribution outlet within the EDC.

Manufacturing Specifications The following specifications are intended for paperback books with black and white or color interiors, with full-color covers. Trim Size We print all books at their original trim size within the following range: · Any width from 4" to 8.5" (10.16 cm to 21.59 cm) · Any height from 6" to 11.69" (15.24 cm to 29.6926 cm)

Text Paper Stock Paper stocks are subject to change Paper Stock for Black and White Books · 60# white 444ppi · 60# cream 412ppi Paper Stock for Full-Color Books · 60# white 426ppi Covers and Binding · 4-color printed covers with film lamination · Cover stock: 10 pt C1S · Perfect binding”

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Chapter 9 Lulu Book Size options

As per listed on the Lulu Website: “ Hard Cover Book Options Through Lulu A Print on Demand Self-Publishing Distributor. 24 pages is the minimum, and 740 pages is the maximum pages allowed for Hard covers that come in 6 x 9 inches and 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Dust Jacket and case wrap available. Only the 6 x 9 is Available for Global Reach Distribution and sale on Amazon.com as well as BarnesandNoble.com and the Lulu Bookstore. The 8.25 x 10.75, is only available for sale on the Lulu bookstore.” Lulu’s Distribution Channel Options Lulu’s Binding Options Lulu’s Color Options

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Chapter 10 How to use CreateSpace Book Cost Calculator

The cost of your book is dependent upon the number of pages, and other design options, such as book size, and whether you've chosen the black & White option, or color option for your book. Here is the link to a 'book cost calculator', courtesy of CreateSpace, the self-publishing company owned by Amazon we will be publishing your paperback book through. https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/#content7 Copy this link and paste it in your browser. Click enter. Scroll down to 'Member Order Calculator'. Next to 'interior type' select black and white or full color depending on your wishes. Then select your 'trim size'. We recommend 6 x 9. Then enter the number of pages and number of copies should be one. Click calculate. This will give you a rough idea. The number that you get will be the base cost of your book. The minimum retail cost of your book will depend on the distribution channels selected. Retail Book price can be determined later and changed at any time.

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Chapter 11 The Shoestring Book Publishing Truthbrary

The Shoestring Truthbrary is an online bookstore, available at our website; www.shoestringbookpublishing.com under the ‘Shoestring Truthbrary’ page, which makes available to the public, books self-published by independent artists, which were carefully designed by Shoestring Book Publishing!. The Shoestring Book Publishing’s constantly budding online Truthbrary showcases talented writers rising along the way! We ask that you open your heart to a newly self-published author and consider purchasing the work of an independent artist to inspire inspiring minds alike! We encourage you not only to purchase and enjoy the ‘indie books’ listed for sale in the Shoestring Book Publishing’s online Truthbrary, but to kindly take a few seconds out of your busy day, to leave Amazon reviews on the independent books which you’ve read, simply by following the 'Review This Book' link provided with all of the other links to where the books can be purchased online. Imagine the joy you will bring to an indie artist, by reviewing their work! Don’t be shy to leave your honest opinion about the books you’ve read. Any type of feedback is way better than no feedback at all! Leaving a real, honest review, is always the best way to go. Customers carousing for new books to read, who stumble upon indie books, published and designed by us, will see that the comments / reviews left are genuine, and not simply a plethora of the authors friends and family leaving biased reviews out of personal relationships and love! Which are

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great, don’t get me wrong! But potential buyers of these books want to also see unbiased reviews left based justly on the content of the books, as well as how much their friends and family love them for accomplishing their ultimate dream goal of Self-Publishing! We encourage authors published by us, to again, please, consider taking the time out of their busy day, to purchase and leave an Amazon review on at least one of the books listed in the Shoestring Book Publishing’s Truthbrary. Remember how excited you were, when you received each and every review on one of your Self-Published books! If it is anything like the excitement we’ve felt about receiving reviews on our Self-Published books, it is like floating on a fluffy white cloud in writers heaven! If and when you do so choose to kindly leave a review for one of the indie artists’ books’ listed in our Truthbrary Store, Send us an email, letting us know you have done so! We want to know of your good deed, and we will strive to retain you a good deed in return, by emailing the author you’ve left a review for. We will let this author know you’ve been so kind enough to leave them a review, and we will suggest that they do the same for you, by leaving a review on one of your Self-Published books designed by us! Participate in the Amazon Review Buddy system. Let’s help one another out. Amazon reviews make a big difference in whether or not a potential buyer purchases a book. Think about when you’ve shopped on Amazon, did you buy

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something based on the reviews? Even in small ways, like leaving an Amazon Review, we can make a monumental difference in someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s day, week, or even month!

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Chapter 12

Terms & Conditions

Shoestring Book Publishing Terms and Conditions: As of 1/1/15 Agreements: Shoestring Book Publishing will begin work on your book when three items have been received: 1.) ‘The Book Formatting Form’. 2.) Your manuscript 3.) A 50.00 down payment towards the Professional Publishing Package, or any of our other publishing package offers available at that time. By returning the ‘Book Formatting Form’ completed, to Shoestring Book publishing, you, the author, are thereby in agreement. You grant Shoestring Book Publishing permission to proceed with services specified in the completed Book Formatting Form, immediately in conjunction with a fifty dollar down payment for said services to be rendered and receipt of your manuscript. There will be no refunds for work provided after you have returned the Book Formatting Form and we have received a down payment and a manuscript, however, you may request we stop work, and we will kindly prorate the completed work done to your book. Prorating will be determined by the number of pages that have been completed, and any other work completed, prior to authors request to cancel agreement. Payment Agreement for the Design and Self-Publication of Your Book:1.) We will firstly require a 50.00 down payment to get started. 2.) After we’ve received your manuscript, we will ask you to choose your fonts for your book. Once you have done so, we will design your book enough so that we are able to get an estimate on what the final cost of the book will be. We will send you a bill via email, for half of the cost of the final estimated cost of your

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book. Once we receive this payment, we will complete your book. Once your book is completed you will receive a bill for the remainder of your balance, which will be due in 10 days’ time. You may inquire about a payment plan with us, or, you may also apply for PayPal’s ‘Bill Me Later’. Exact instructions on how to make payments through PayPal are posted at ‘The Store’ at our Website. You may also make payments by check in the mail, or by bank transfer. Whichever way you choose to make payments, it is important that you let us know up front how you plan to make them! Manuscript Submission for Typesetting: Before submitting the manuscript for typesetting, please make sure that the content is absolutely final. Any changes made later would be charged extra at Shoestring Book Publishing’s discretion depending on amount of effort needed. Ensure that everything that needs to get into the interior of the book, including any preface, foreword, dedication page, references are present in the book. Any images used in the book need to be provided separately in high resolution. Corrections After Publication: Even when a manuscript has undergone several rounds of corrections before formatting, it is not uncommon to find more mistakes or to desire re-editing after it has been formatted. We have you covered there. If you’ve paid for proofreading/editing service, You can proofread the formatted manuscript and send us a list of corrections. Up to 3 rounds of corrections within 90 days from the delivery of formatted manuscript are free. Thereafter, corrections will be charged at 1.00 USD per page. Unless corrections are in reference to a design error, or any

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other error on our part, in which case, we will fix such errors at any time. You will receive a digital proof copy and one free physical proof copy of your book. There will be plenty of opportunity for corrections before publication. If at any time you find a correction that was an error on our part, we will gladly fix it for free. Retiring a Title: If at any time you’d like to ‘retire a title that has been self-published under Self-publication option #2, simply send us an email and let us know that you would like to retire your title and we will retire your title within one business week, from the self-publication distribution channels you have chosen herein the book formatting form. If at any time during the future, you decide you’d like to reinitiate the agreements with Shoestring Book Publishing to self-publish your book through Self -Publication Option #2, we will be glad to re-publish your book for you, through the free CreateSpace distribution package of your choice under self-publication option #2 agreement, herein the Book Formatting Form. Self-Publication Option #1: If you, the author, choose selfpublication option #1, once Shoestring Book Publishing hands your books accounts over to you, which your book has been self-published through ie: CreateSpace, Lulu, Amazon, Shoestring is no longer responsible for the handling of your books account. You may contact us with questions at any time, but we will no longer be responsible to manage your self-published books account, or will Shoestring Book Publishing be responsible for any dealings under self-

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publication option #1, including tax documents regarding any revenue your self-published book incurs at any time. Payment is Due: when a digital print of your book is sent to you and has been approved so the book is ready for publishing. An invoice will be mailed to you and the balance will be due five days after receipt of the invoice. A payment plan may be discussed before work is done on your book. Received Galley Copy: Shoestring Book Publishing will send to your address up to one FREE galley/proof copy of the book, which you’ve had designed through Shoestring Book Publishing. Once you’ve receive this galley copy, courtesy of us, we ask that you please review the galley copy of your book and notify us via phone or email of any corrections you’d like to be made to your book before either selfpublishing your book through Self-publication option #1 or Self-publication option #2. Please note, that ‘Proofreading’ of a Galley copy does not include further edits to your book, such as: Removal or replacement of any text. If Shoestring Book Publishing decides that any pictures have not translated well from digital manuscript of your books galley copy to actual physical paper, Shoestring Book Publishing will be glad to replace the picture due to poor backlighting or pixilation. Please note, that if Shoestring Book Publishing has advised you, the author, via email that a picture will not translate well from digital galley copy to paper and you, the author, choose to ignore this advice, Shoestring Book Publishing will not be responsible to replace the said picture, unless you, the author agrees to pay the fee for resetting the picture typeset, according to applicable picture typesetting

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setting fees. Please be sure, that the manuscript you submit for typesetting, is the one in which you intend to have typeset by Shoestring Book Publishing and/or published. Shoestring Book Publishing will consider replacing text after your manuscript has been submitted for typesetting at Shoestring Book Publishing’s discretion. Please keep in mind, that we are a reasonable book design company and have the best interest of the customer in mind, however, changes to a manuscripts contents after submission, without incurring additional fees, will depend upon the level of difficulty Shoestring Book Publishing faces thereon. Royalty Distribution: Upon choosing Self-Publication option #2, Shoestring Book publishing will be responsible for handling you, the author’s, books account. Shoestring Book Publishing will provide you with quarterly revenue received, through CreateSpace, for the sales of said book. We can distribute the royalties for said book by check in the mail, bank transfer (Minimum of 10.00) or via PayPal. Ordering Books: When you wish to purchase copies of your book and have them mailed to you, we ask that you please send us an email, at shoestingpublishing4u@gmail.com letting us know how many of your books self-published through self- publication option #2 you’d like to receive and the address in which you’d like to have said number of your books mailed to, directly from CreateSpace. Once you send Shoestring Book Publishing an email, with the amount of books you’d like mailed to you and the address in which you’d like those books to be mailed, we will get back to you within 72 hours with a total in which the base cost will be

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through CreateSpace to order the books requested and have them shipped to said address. Different taxes apply due to different mailing addresses. Once Shoestring Book Publishing responds to your book order request, with a total amount, given book cost, shipping fees and taxes, due to CreateSpace’s calculations, we ask that you please either pay that amount to Shoestring Book Publishing Via PayPal, payments to SSBP through PayPal can be made to shoestringpublshing4u@gmail.com or by check in the mail to Allan Emery 105 3rd Street Apartment #4 Bangor Maine, 04401, USA, or by Bank transfer. (POP-Pay other People) through your bank (minimum 10.00). Once we receive this payment, we will immediately place the order for the amount of books you have requested to be sent to you. Createspace usually ships within one week of order. Marketing: When you, the author self-publishes through Shoestring Book Publishing, through the Professional Publishing Package, option #2, Shoestring Book Publishing will provide a service, where we will act as your book’s marketing agent, submitting submissions to appropriate large and small presses, by submitting appropriate materials, requested by large and small presses for submissions, such as book proposals and appropriate synopsis of you, the author’s book. Please keep in mind, that we will not initiate submissions to any presses, besides CreateSpace, without a request to do so, from you, the author. The only instance, in which Shoestring Book Publishing will collect a fee for acting as an agent for your book, is if/when your book is accepted by a large or small press for publication. At this time, if/when your book is accepted for publication with a

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large or small press, due to Shoestring Book Publishing acting as you, the author’s agent, Shoestring book Publishing will collect a royalty fee of 6% for five years thereafter. By filling out the Book Formatting Form, submitting a down payment of 50.00 for the Professional Publishing Package and selecting Self-Publication option #2, you may opt to select Shoestring Book Publishing to act as the agent for your book typeset under the Submitted Book Formatting Form. Book Proposal’s, however, are not a free service and prices for Book proposals can be found at ‘The Store’ located at Shoestring Book Publishing’s Website. If you, the author, wish to submit a book proposal, for your book, which you have chosen to have Shoestring book Publishing format under the ‘Professional Publishing Package.’ And have chosen Self-Publication option #2, then you may submit a book proposal, you have written for said book to shoestringpublishing4u@gmail.com and we will be glad to act as an agent for said book. Author’s Rights: Rights to author’s book(s) who SelfPublish through Self-Publication Option #1 or SelfPublication option #2, through Shoestring Book Publishing’s Professional Publishing package, or who choose not to publish at all, are not subject to any contractual agreements with Shoestring Book Publishing, concerning the rights to any books, and you, the author, retain sole rights to said book(s). If you chooses under Self-Publication option #2, for Shoestring Book Publishing to act as a literay agent for your book, you, the author, will be responsible for any contracts signed with large or small presses, other than CreateSpace/Lulu/Amazon and also responsible to pay

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Chapter 13

Quarterly Royalty Payment Schedule

Book Royalty Terms and Conditions; Under Self-Publication option #2 Quarterly Royalty Payment Schedule 2014 and thereafter

This Payment schedule involves customers who have had books designed through Shoestring Book Publishing and Self-Published, under Shoestring Book Publishing’s Account, with either CreateSpace, Lulu or Kindle Direct Publishing. •

January, February and March Royalties will be issued in May.

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April, May and June Royalties will be issued in August.

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July, August and September Royalties will be issued in November.

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October, November and December Royalties will be issued in February of the following year.

CreateSpace, Lulu and KDP disperse monthly royalties about 30 days after the close of the month which royalties were earned. Therefore, we cannot distribute royalties any earlier than 2 months after the close of each quarter.

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Royalties will be distributed one of three ways: 1.) By POP, pay other people money, through bank transfer. Minimum transfer amount allowed is 10.00 USD. You will receive an email, with instructions on how to claim your money, from Shoestring Book Publishing’s Bank account. 2.) By check through snail mail. 3.) By PayPal. You may choose how you’d like to be paid your royalties, and change your payment method at any time, by notifying us via email or phone. You may contact us at any time via email or telephone, inquiring about royalty earnings. Please allow 48 hours for a response. We will provide a detailed report of your royalty earnings quarterly, from the proper distribution channel. (CreateSpace, Lulu, KDP). CreateSpace, Lulu and KDP, charge a fee for each book sold. Each self-publishing channel mentioned, will set a minimum ‘list’ price for your book. The amount which you mark your book up from the ‘list’ price, which is the ‘retail’ price, will be the amount in royalties earned, dependent upon the sales channels selected. Here is an example:

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When self-publishing your book through CreateSpace, listing your book only on the CreateSpace estore will produce the lowest minimum list price possible. When you select amazon.com the minimum list price for distribution will increase by 33.3% of whatever the initial minimum list price is through CreateSpace. For example: Minimum list price for 124 page full color book listed on the CreateSpace estore is 11.92. Listing your book through CreateSpace only on the CreateSpace estore, will produce the lowest minimum list price possible. Minimum list price for a 124 page book with full color listed on Amazon.com is 15.89 Minimum list price for a book published through any one, a combination of, or all three of CreateSpaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s "Expanded Distribution Channels" such as, Bookstores and Online Retailers, Libraries and Academic Institutions, and CreateSpace Direct will increase the minimum list price of your book by, 50%. Minimum list price for 124 page full color book through CreateSpaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Expanded Distribution Package is 23.83. That's double the initial minimum list price for said books, sold through the CreateSpace estore alone. Whatever the minimum list price is for your book, anything you choose to mark the book up from there is all profit.

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Depending on which channel your book is sold through, will determine the royalties that you receive. Let's say you chose the Expanded distribution Package for your book, and you priced your book at 24.99, since the minimum list price for the EDP is 23.83. Someone purchases your book at the list price of 24.99 through the CreateSpace estore, you will earn 13.07, for the sale of your book, since the minimum list price for your book sold through the CreateSpace estore is 11.92. Let's say a company purchases one of your books at wholesale through CreateSpace Direct, you would earn 1.16 in royalties, since the minimum list price for that channel is 23.83. This all falls under the stipulation, that you've chosen CreateSpace’s 'free ISBN' for your book. Your book must have an assigned ISBN, in order to be sold through any distribution channel. A distribution channel is any one of the sales avenues mentioned earlier, such as the channels which fall under CreateSpace’s standard distribution package such as the CreateSpace estore, Amazon.com, Amazon Europe; and all of the channels that fall under the free expanded distribution package that CreateSpace now offers, such as bookstores and online retailers, libraries and academic institutions, and CreateSpace Direct.

You may change the ‘retail’ price of your book at any time. The retail price must be above the minimum list price set for the sales channels selected.

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You may add or remove sales channels which are available to you for free through CreateSpace, or Lulu at any time. Please notify us by email or phone and allow us 72 hours from time of request for us to make changes. Also, take into consideration; changes in sales channels through CreateSpace or Lulu take applicable amount of time to take effect. You may request a title to be retired from publication at any time. Please allow up to 72 hours for us to initiate such changes. Once a title has been retired, re-publishing the same title will be available for the applicable time through CreateSpace, Lulu or KDP. If you retire a title, and wish to un-retire a title, we will be happy to do so at no extra charge, as long as the title remains available to be unretired. You may choose to have Shoestring Book Publishing create you, your own account through CreateSpace or Lulu at any time. We will upload your book to an account which we will teach you how to manage for free, and hand over to you. Please keep in mind, that once you opt to manage your own books account through CreateSpace or Lulu, Shoestring Book Publishing is no longer responsible for distributing royalties for your book, nor do we hold any responsibility regarding the publication of your book, whatsoever. At the end of each tax year, we will provide a summary of your yearly royalty earnings, via email, privately. Customers receiving royalties for any said year will receive a 1099 form, issued by January 31st, of the following year royalties were earned. This is for tax purposes. All customers who are to

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receive royalties distributed to them through Shoestring Book Publishing, which will be earned through CreateSpace, Lulu or KDP, and distributed to us by said sales channel, must first complete and return a W9 form, which we will provide via email, with the Book Formatting Form. Please feel free to ask us any questions you may have regarding royalties. We thank you kindly for your business.

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Chapter 14 How to Order Books

For books which are published under Shoestring Book Publishing's accounts, through Self-Publishing Option #2, as stated on the Book Formatting Form, simply send us an email, with the amount of books you would like to order, indicating paperback or hardcover, and the method of shipping you would like. We will issue you an invoice via PayPal for this amount, including shipping, and if you decide you wish to move forward, when we receive payment, we will order the books from the appropriate company, either CreateSpace or Lulu, and have them shipped to the address you've provided on the 'Book Formatting Form'. Unless otherwise indicated, we will send your books using standard shipping. If there is a certain day you wish to receive your books by, we ask that you indicate such, when emailing us the details of your book order. Base cost of paperbacks (Cost to you) use the CreateSpace book cost calculator. https://www.createspace.com/Products/Book/#content7 â&#x20AC;˘

Base cost of hardcovers (Cost to you) use the Lulu book cost calculator. http://www.lulu.com/calculators/bookCalc.php?cid=publish_ book â&#x20AC;˘

If you have any questions about ordering books, please feel free to ask. You may contact us by phone, at Alison: 732-

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331-7863 or Allan: 207-922-8837, or, by email, at shoestringpublishing4u@gmail.com with your book ordering inquiries at any time. Please refrain from using method of text messages, or any other messaging system, such as Allpoetry messages for book ordering inquiries, as these are not always reliable methods.

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Chapter 15 Shipping Information

Shipping paperback books with CreateSpace, as listed on the CreateSpace website: •

Standard shipping: May be delivered by USPS or UPS. Estimated delivery date for standard shipping will be 15 days from date of order. With shipping and printing approximately 16-18 days. 1 book within the US is 3.59, for each additional book, add 0.59.

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Expedited shipping: May be delivered by UPS (95% of the time) or Fed-Ex on occasion. Estimated delivery date for expedited shipping will be 8 days from date order is placed. With shipping and printing approximately 9-11 days. 1 book within the US is 11.18, for each additional book, add 1.19.

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Priority shipping: May be delivered by UPS (95% of the time) or Fed-Ex on occasion. Estimated delivery date for priority shipping will be 7 days from date order is placed. With shipping and printing 8-10 days. 1 book within the US is 15.98, for each additional book, add 2.99.

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*Books are printed on demand (POD), and usually printed within 1-3 days of ordering in the USA. Shipping times vary depending on location. Shipping Prices may vary depending on shipping location.

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Shipping hardcover books with Lulu: Hard cover books will take 6-8 days to be printed on demand.

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Mail: (USPS Media Mail) Mail delivers 5-15 days after printing. With shipping and printing; Mail could take anywhere from 11-23 days within the US. One book is 4.99. Add 1.25 for each additional book.

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Ground: (Fed Ex Ground) delivers 2-5 business days after printing. Ground could take anywhere from 8-13 days with shipping and printing estimate. One book is 9.99. Add 1.50 for each additional book.

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Expedited: (FedEx 2nd Day) delivers 2 business days after printing. Expedited could take anywhere from 810 days with shipping and printing estimate. One book is 19.99. Add 2.00 for each additional book.

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Express: delivers 1 business day after printing. Express could take anywhere from 7-9 days with shipping and printing estimate. One book is 39.99. Add 4.00 for each additional book.

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*Books are printed on demand at Lulu all over the world. Express shipping cannot be delivered to P.O boxes. For Mail Delivery times are not guaranteed. Lulu will not be able to locate or refund orders lost during delivery. Lulu’s headquarters are in Raleigh North Carolina. Shipping prices may vary.

*Shipping times and prices are estimates and not guarantees. They may be affected by factors over which Lulu or CreateSpace has no control, including incorrect delivery

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Chapter 16 Two Page View for Adobe Reader (When Viewing the PDF proof of your book)

Click the picture below to download Adobe Reader for free:

Or, simply use your search engine by typing: ‘Download Abobe Reader Free’. The digital PDF galley copy of your book, can be viewed in Adobe reader, or adobe acrobat. To ensure you are viewing the PDF of your book properly, please make sure you have your view set as follows: In Adobe reader window, click on ‘view’, then click on ‘page display’, make sure ‘show cover page in two page view’ is checked. Then select ‘two page scrolling’, from the same menu. If you have done this correctly, the first page will be by itself, and then you will see two pages everywhere else. If this is not what you see, please try again, for that is how we are viewing the document, as this setting sets the view to book view. Typically, we will have the PDF file of your book already set up in the two page view.

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Chapter 17 IRS W9 Form

If you have chosen for Shoestring Book Publishing to handle your CreateSpace, Lulu, or Kindle Direct Publishing account, you must fill out and return a W9 form to us, by mail. If you wish to email, you must first print it out and sign with your original signature, then can scan and email it back to us. If you are not familiar with what a W9 form is, it is a form that we may supply to our accountant, so that we may issue you a 1099, with your royalty earning for each tax year. Without this form, we cannot publish your book through one of our accounts. If you are out of the country (USA), then it is not necessary for you to complete a W9.

To download, and/or print a copy of a W9, follow this link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n3jxc2y9h4x55he/W9%20IRS% 20Form.pdf?dl=0 Or just type into your browser, IRS W9 form and call up the PDF for,. Which comes from the website; irs.gov Please fill out this form and mail it back to us at our address.

If you do not have a printer, please let us know, and we will be glad to mail a W9 to you.

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Chapter 18 KDP Account Set up

Click the link to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing: Or simply type into your browser, KDP, and click on the link that comes up. Or, you can do this from your CreateSpace account. by clicking on your book title from the 'Member Dashboard', and choosing 'Publish on Kindle' under 'Distribute'. When you click on this link, KDP will prompt you to the right, to sign in. You will sign in using your Amazon account information. If you do not have an account with Amazon, please make one by clicking 'sign up' below 'sign in'. Once you sign into Amazon's KDP, (Kindle Direct Publishing), it will take you to your KDP home page. To the left, you are going to click, 'Add New Title'. Check the first box, 'Enroll in KDP Select'. Then 'Enter Your Book Details'. "Book Name" "Subtitle" "Edition Number" is First Edition. Publisher is "Shoestring Book Publishing" or your name ", Whichever you prefer. Copy and paste your bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s description. Then click 'Book Contributors" and add yourself as the Author. Add publication date. Today's date is fine. Leave ISBN blank unless you wish to buy one from us. No need to have one. Under 'Verify your publishing rights' click "This is not a public domain work ..."

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Under 'Target your book to customers' click 'Add Categories' and scroll down to 'poetry' then choose 'general' Add 7 keywords. Whatever you want. 'Upload Book Cover' upload the cover I emailed to you. Under 'Upload Your Book File' choose 'enable digital rights management' then click 'Browse' and upload the book file I emailed to you. The file will take a couple minutes to upload. Once it is finished, Click save and continue. Under verify your publishing territories choose 'worldwide rights - all territories' Under 'Choose your Royalty' choose 35% or 70%. I always choose 70% but this is up to you. If you choose 70% your book price must be between 2.99 and 9.99. If you want to price your book above or below that choose 35% royalty. Kindle does this as a way to keep your book price between the frame they want it. That is my best guess. If you want your book in Kindle Select, you must choose 70% royalty. This is KDP's rules. Click all of the territories to 'Automatically based on US price'. Scroll down and choose 'Kindle Matchbook' and choose free or a price. Matchbook means when someone buys your paperback, they get the ebook for whatever you set it for here. It is like a package deal. 'Kindle Book Lending' Click 'Allow Lending For This Book'. This means your book will be available in the Kindle

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Lending Library, for Amazon Prime members. It is like a virtual library, where they can 'take out' books for a number of days. Check the box below for terms and conditions' then click 'save and publish'. Your book will be available within 12 hours. You will receive an email when it has been approved. Make sure to add your bank information so that you may receive royalties. To check the status of your book sales, click on 'Reports' up top from your home page. Then click Month to date, to check the current month. You may also download reports from here. You can view your promotions and payments from here as well. If you want to read more about KDP Select, click KDP select, up top from your homepage. There is a community with forums, you may find by clicking 'community' up top from your home page. You can always make your way back to home, by clicking 'bookshelf' up top. To manage your book promotions, click 'manage benefits' next to your book's title on your homepage. You can also edit book details from this page.

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Public Relations; Book Marketing

Here at Shoestring Book Publishing, we want to help you as best we can to get the word out about your newly selfpublished book! We have a number of social media sites, where we will post announcements providing information in regards to the publication of your book. Below, please find a list of the social media sites where we will make these announcements, and if you wish, you may utilize these announcements, by ‘sharing’ these posts with your friends, fans and family on your social media sites of the like. It is a good idea to begin promoting your book before the publication through the suggested sites below, and any other social media sites, or ‘in person’ writers / book club organizations in which you participate. If you ‘follow’ us on any of these social media sites we have listed, in which we participate, you will gain access to posts that may at any time reflect a promotional post of your books, and also, we will make monthly posts advertising free five day Kindle ebook deals of the books which we’ve designed and published! Free ebooks, yay! Twitter Handle: @ShoestringBookP Twitter Address: https://twitter.com/ShoestringBookP We will send you an email, with the notification that your book has been advertised through our twitter account. Feel free to ‘share’ or ‘favorite’ any of these tweets. Facebook Handle: Shoestring Book Publishing FacebookAddress:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shoest ring-Publishing/255534234549293

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Feel free to like us on Facebook, this way when we post announcements about the release of your book, you may share these announcements, so that they may appear on your page. Also, it is a good idea to encourage friends, fans, and family to share these post, to increase your marketing ‘visibility’ reach to the public. Linkedin Handle: Shoestring Book Publishing Linkedin Address: www.linkedin.com/pub/shoestring-book-publishing/85/533/336/

Connect with is on Linkedin, if you have a Linkedin page, as ‘We’ve done business together’ and we will connect back with you. This way, when we post the announcement about the release of your book to the public for purchase, you may share the links we’ve posted on our feed to your feed. Google + Handle: Shoestring Book Publishing Google + Address: https://plus.google.com/u/0/me?tab=mX Google Plus is a great way to advertise the release of your book. If you do not have a Google Plus account, all you need to do to get one is to create a Gmail account, through Google Mail, and Google will prompt you to create one! Remember to add hashtags to your posts and also tag friends, fans, family, and relative groups. To add a hashtag, add a # sign before the intended tag. For instance; #lovepoetry as a hashtag will call up your tagged post whenever anyone searches love poetry in the search box. To tag a person or group in a post, simply add the @ sign before their Google Plus name. Think about it, on any one of these social media sites, you can hashtag your book something fun, which you can share with your friends, family and fans, like

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#mikeisfinallypublished! Tell them to simply search that hashtag! Have fun with it, get people excited! Tumblr: shoestringbookpublishing.tumblr.com Follow us on Tumblr, and reblog the posts we make about your books release. Tumblr is a neat site, where you can create a page that is similar to a website. Tumblr also has a feed where you can share posts with friends, fans and family. Add hashtags to help increase the visibility of your posts. #yayimpublished! Allpoetry: Friend us on Allpoetry. We are ShoestringPub http://allpoetry.com/ShoestringPub Keep up with the latest posts in regards to publishing. Receive tips, and notifications of fellow Allpoetry authors who have published books through us. Utilize important and useful information posted on our Allpoetry homepage; such as, links to book cost calculators, and royalty calculators. When we have added your book to the Allpoetry bookstore, we will send you a private message letting you know your book has been added, as well as post a column with the announcement. If you would like for us to post an announcement of your books release to your Allpoetry homepage, please provide us with your Allpoetry username and password. We will post a thread in the Allpoetry publishing forum about your books release. We will hold a contest announcing your books release, and provide the points, encouraging entrants to leave amazon reviews. If you would like to give away a free copy of your book to the contest Gold winner, please let us know, and we will include the cost in your final bill, for the book we will provide as a prize. If you wish to give away more than

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one copy of your book during the contest, please indicate how many. Free contest giveaways are a lot of fun! Email Promotions: We will send out an email notification of your books release to our mailing list. You may forward this email to your friends, fans, and family to help promote your bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s release. Shoestring Book Publishing Truthbrary: All of the links to where your book can be found for purchase, will be added to the Shoestring Book Publishingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Truthbrary at our website: http://www.shoestringbookpublishing.com/shoestringtruthbrary.html A bookstore of POD books, located at our website, published by independent artists just like you, through us! We will also include a link to where people may review your book through Amazon.com. Goodreads: Become our fan: https://www.goodreads.com/shoestringbookpublishing Participate in Goodreads Giveaway: Goodreads.com/giveaway Giveaway anywhere from 1 to 10 copies of your book. If you are interested, please send us an email with the amount of books you would like to give away. We will issue you an invoice for the cost of the books, and after you make payment, we will host the giveaway contest on Goodreads. Instagram: http://instagram.com/shoestring_book_publishing/ Follow us on Instagram! We will post a picture of your books cover to our Instagram page.

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Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/shoestringpub/ Follow us on Pinterest, where we will pin your book’s release to Amazon to our ‘Books Published by Shoestring book Publishing’ Board! #selfiemybook Authors who have been published by Shoestring Book Publishing, snap a selfie of yourself, holding your book up, and share it with us via any social media outlet, such as twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google +, Pinterest, Tumblr & Linkedin! Amazon Book Review Solicit: Good Morning! Welcome to my page. It would be nice to hear your first impression about my newly published book: (Insert book title and description here) (Insert book cover picture here) I wish you all a beautiful day! Best Regards (Your name here) If you have a Linkedin page, you can send this out as a message to all your connections. You can post this as a status, on your Author Facebook Page, Tweet it on your Twitter, Share it on your Google + page, and make sure you check to email the post to all the people you share with on Google+! Post it on any social media site you like. Send it as a mass email to all your contacts!

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Social Media Marketing: All of the advertising we do of your book through our social media outlets is part of any of our publishing packages. Social media is just one way you can promote the sales of your newly self-published book. Here are other ways you can promote the sales of your book: Local Bookstores: Purchase through us, through print on demand, even a small amount of your books, and try to sell them to small local bookstores. If you are trying to get a poetry book into a bookstore, this is the best way, as opposed to going straight for Barnes & Noble, and becoming discouraged if they say they will not carry your book. You can purchase the books through us, (directions on how to do so are included in this welcome book) and try to sell them that way, or you can show the small bookstores a copy, as a sample of your book, and if they like it, and agree to carry it, you can simply place an order through us for the amount of books they have agreed to carry, and we will have the books mailed directly to that bookstore. You can agree to sell the books to the bookstore for x amount of dollars, and whatever they receive in addition, as profit will be the difference from the retail markup price of the book. Or, you can tell the bookstore that your book can be found on Ingram, and they may order copies of your book there. In which case, the distributor will determine your royalties, through wholesale distribution. Poetry Readings: Attend a local poetry reading. Get out there in the wonderful world of poetry, and become familiar with poets like you, and others who are interested in just coming to a local coffee house, or wherever the poetry

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reading is held, and get your work out there! If attendees like your poetry, they may purchase your book! Bring copies of your book, and sell them for whatever you like. Offer to sign the copies of the books that you sell. It is also a good idea to have some type of promotional business cards, or bookmarks printed up, to promote your book. If you have an ebook published through Kindle under our account, we can schedule a free 5 day ebook promotion to run at the time of your poetry readings. Simply send us an email to let us know. Traditional Publishing Houses: If we’ve designed your book, we will be glad to act as your literary agent upon request. Details can be found in the ‘terms and Conditions’ included in this Welcome Book. Book Fairs: Attend book fairs to promote the release of your book. Bring an ample amount of copies with you, as you attend these book fairs and other promotional items as well, such as bookmarks, posters, magnets, and anything else you wish to have designed to help in the promotion of your book. You may have such promotional items made up for you through Vista Print. If you would like us to have these items designed, simply send us an email with your inquiry, and we will get back to you with the pricing. But remember, this is the information age! All you have to do is type ‘book fairs’ into your web browser, and voila! You will get tons of listings of Book Fairs. Want to narrow the search to your area? Simply type Book Fairs, and then your area afterwards. You never know who you will run into at a book fair. Maybe an infamous literary agent, or someone from a Traditional

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Publishing House themselves! You can be your own literary agent! Local Libraries: Bring a copy or two of your newly published book to your local Libraries, and simply let them know you are dropping off a couple copies of a book published by a local author, which is you! Libraries will always gladly accept book donations. If you would like for us to have the book mailed directly to the library of your choice, simply send us an email request to do so, and provide the address of the library. We will send your book for you, to any library of your choice. We do recommend in this case, that you call the library ahead of time, and simply let them know that your treasured book will be arriving! Book Launch: “Beautiful, professional book pages, in less than 10 minutes!” SoundCloud: Create a free SoundCloud account, and share the spoken word of your works as a sample to promote your newly self-published book to your book launch page! Shoestring Book Publishing Blogger: Do you have an announcement, a story, or a poem you’d like us to post onto our blog for you? Simply send us an email with your request, and the content you wish to be included in the blog post. If it is a post in which you’ve made, that you’d like us to share to our social media, please send us an email with the link and request. Create an Author Page at Amazon’s author Central:

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“At Author Central, you can share the most up-to-date information about yourself and your works with millions of readers. Learn more Add your biography, photos, blog, video, and tour events to the Author Page, your homepage on Amazon.com.” As per Amazon Author Central: Reach More Readers!” Whatever path on the road to public relations you choose to promote the sales of your book, we will be there with you every step of the way! All of the above methods are fee, with the exception of the amount you will pay for any copies of your book ordered, and other promotional materials, such as bookmarks & posters. And, if you would like for us to design promotional materials for you. We also offer a ‘Marketing Package’ at ‘The Store’ at our website: http://www.shoestringbookpublishing.com/the-store.html all of what it includes can be found listed at the provided link. There are endless amounts of possibilities to promote your book! You can contact magazines, journals, radio stations, and even T.V stations! This method can take a lot of time, so if you are interested in quickly getting the release of your book out there to the public through these avenues, we suggest purchasing the Book Marketing Package through The Store at our website. Just remember to have patience, marketing is an ongoing process, and takes time to take off!

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Chapter 20 How to Write a Book Proposal

If you are interested in selling your book to a Traditional Publishing House, such as Random Books, you may need a Book Proposal to make your submissions. It depends, really, on what the Traditional Publishing House calls for in the submissions guidelines, which you should ALWAYS read and follow to the T, before making submissions to large and small presses. A Book Proposal is just one of the requirements a large or small press may request for submissions. If you would like to write your own book proposal, below are the steps on how to do so. If you would like to employ us to write a book proposal for you, you can purchase one at The Store, at our website. We always guarantee to match any other company’s prices, for the same services, of the same quality. We’ve ‘shopped around’ and from what can see, our book proposals are less than half the cost of most other places. Samples of Book Proposals which we’ve written are available upon request, and can be emailed. Classification of Books Novel: Over 40,000 Words Novella: 17,500 to 40,000 Words Novelette: 7,500 words, to 17,500 Words Short Story: Under 7,500 Words Book Proposal Step # 1 - Summary Write a summary- of about 1-2- pages long. This will be the beginning of your proposal. The summary enables editorial boards to quickly take in the important features of the book.

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It also inspires confidence in regards to your ability to put a book together. Include here: - A brief description of your book. - The manuscript details (Page count and how quickly the book can be completed.) -Special editorial features, a bulleted list of what makes this book standout from an editorial and publishers perspective. - List of chapter titles. -One or two sentences about the authors. - A fifteen or less word sales pitch for the book. - Key sales and marketing features, four or five bulleted points about the book. - Sales channel information. Where this book will sell especially well. - Comparison with the key competition. Step #2 Overview. A one or two paragraph summary about what will be included in the book. This should read like the blurbs on the back of the book. It tells the publisher in a compact form what the book is about, who the market is, and mentions a small bit about the author. Step #3 About the Author. This section provides detailed information about you. Why are you qualified to write this book? What is your education? Have you published before? Do you work in the computer industry?

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Step #4 The Market. Whom do you envision the audience for your book? Why would somebody want to buy the book? How will the audience be reached? For example, are there some magazines aimed at the same audience which your book has been written for? Are there any special conferences on this subject? (When and where?)In this section you should be as numerical as possible. If you're talking about a fanfiction novella for instance, discuss how many books were shipped in the previous year, and how many readers there are in the audience. Step#5 What other books are in print on the same subject? You can research this at Amazon.com books Step #6 Annotated Table of Contents. A detailed chapter outline with a paragraph or a page describing what each chapter will consist of. The more detail you incorporate the better. Step #7 Sample Material. A sample chapter or a part of a chapter. Alternatively a writing sample can also be included here.

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Chapter 21 How to write a press release

There are many companies you can find on the internet, that will write and distribute a press release for you, such as Piece of Cake PR, and ireach by PR Newswire. If you want to learn how to write a press release, just as anything else you want to learn in this day in age, all you have to do, is type into your search engine, whether it is Bing, IE, Google Chrome, ect, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;How to Write a press release, and presto, many sites which can teach you how to do so will pop right up. The basic format for a press release is as follow:

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Date/timing Release Date Title Location Paragraph 1 is the Introduction Describe your book: Who, What, When, Were, and Why! 7. Authors Biography 8. Contact details for author.

Make sure your books press release is limited to one page. Press releases are good for submitting to magazines, radio stations, T.V. stations, all of the appropriate like. You can snail mail your press release to the media, or you can email it to the media. We can write a press release for you, for 99.00. We would advertise it on our social media sites, and

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email it out to our mailing list. Any other promotional work of your press release, would be up to you, the author. Lots of local libraries have T.V. time on a local station. Speaking to someone at your local library who is in charge of the T.V. media, about getting your press release advertised on their T.V. time and station, would be a great idea. Maybe you can publish it in the local newspaper, for instance, if you are from Middlesex County New Jersey, you could contact the Home News Tribune. What is the local newspaper in your area? Another idea, is to advertise your book in your local coupon value pack. You could include a discount code we can provide to you through the CreateSpace estore upon request. Whatever percent off you desire, as long as your book doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fall below the minimum price threshold.

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Chapter 22 Submissions to Literary Magazines

If you are interested in having your poetry or short stories published in literary magazines, you can make submissions to any one of these lit mags, following their specific instructions for submissions. If you have had a book designed and published by us, and wish for us to make submissions for you to lit mags, the cost per each submission is 5.00 each. In which case, we would ask you to provide the poem in which you would like us to submit, and we will submit your poem to a lit mag that is looking for your particular genre of poetry, in which you wish to submit. We would email you with the details when the submission has been made. Thank you. New Yorker Massachusetts Review Poetry Barrow Street American Poetry Review

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Paris Review New England Review Georgia Review Kenyon Review Five Points Threepenny Review Antioch Review Callaloo Virginia Quarterly Review Southern Review Conjunctions Epoch

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Gettysburg Review Cincinnati Review Yale Review Southwest Review Hudson Review Triquarterly Crazy Horse Iowa Review Agni Alaska Quarterly Review Mcsweeney's Shenandoah

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Boulevard Harvard Review Fence American Scholar Witness Volt Glimmer Train Prairie Schooner The Missouri Review Oxford Review Bomb A Public Space

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Chapter 23 How to add your book to the Allpoetry Bookstore

Follow this link: AllpoetryBookstore: http://allpoetry.com/book On the top right hand corner You'll see 'Add Your Book' Click on this. Enter 'title' of your book. Add description of your book. 'Amazon link' Copy and Paste the Amazon link to your book in here. Please note, that for unknown reasons, after you complete your books profile and click save, if you enter your books profile page again and re-save, the Amazon link will become broken to your book. If you are going to re-save your books profile in the Allpoetry bookstore, also reenter the Amazon link to your book. 'Custom Book Thumbnail' Upload a picture file of the cover of your book. If you are adding an Amazon link there is no need to upload a thumbnail of your book, it will be added automatically. Enter the price of your book. Enter any other links to your book. Enter categories that best fit your book. Please note that these categories cannot be changed after you save. I think you can add up to 9.

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Now your book is for sale in the Allpoetry Bookstore and a little thumbnail of your book will appear on the right side of your homepage.

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Chapter 24 About Poetry Chapbooks

Poetry chapbooks, are on average about 30 pages, give or take a few pages and are saddle bound, or perfect bound. When gathering poems for a poetry chapbook, you would choose poems from your poetry collection, which are based upon a similar theme, such as love, spiritual, humor ect ... The normal contents for a chapbook include a table of contents, an acknowledgements page, the chosen poems and an author's biography. The acknowledgements should include the names of your poems which were previously published and where they were published. Poetry chapbooks are an excellent way to represent a collection of your best works, such as Poems that have been accepted for publication or have won prizes. Regardless of the material you choose to publish in your chapbook, there are no rules are to what constitutes the contents. over all, it is best to stick with a theme, but they may contain a varied array of topics, whatever you choose to use, consider the overall mood. You could use an epic poem, to tell a story throughout the chapbook. Maintaining some sort of organization with the placing of your poems is key, because you want to keep the reader interested. Once you place the organization of your poems, read through it and see how well it flows. Reading a poem aloud is a great technique to help decide how well it flows. One way to differentiate your best poems from all the rest is by feedback.

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Was the poem chosen for publication in a journal? What type of comments did you receive from readers? Always pick your best poem as the first poem to be placed in your chapbook. Keep the number of poems per page to one. You want to make sure each poem receives the attention it deserves. Use a sans serif font for your body like Garamond or Minion and a Serif font is recommended for the title font. Publishing a chapbook of poetry is a good way to inexpensively share your poetry with friends, family and poets alike. Normal Retail pricing for chapbooks will run about 5 to 10 dollars each. If you are looking for publication with a large or a small press, arranging a chapbook for submission is a good place to begin. Many small presses and literary magazines will accept unsolicited manuscripts in lieu of contests held for chapbook publication. Still, regardless of being accepted for publication by a large or a small press, the author should expect to volunteer his or her own time into the marketing as well. 12 pt. is a nice size font for poetry books, for most fonts like Times New Roman. Be consistent with the design of your book, such as the spacing between the title of the poem and the body of the poem and number your pages, making sure

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the page numbers match the table of contents. You can use 1' margins for the top and bottom, or 0.5, depending on preference, and a gutter of 0.75, and design your poetry chapbook in a word processor, like Microsoft Word. The best size book to self-publish is 6 x 9, as this is the most widely accepted book size by distributors. Proofread your manuscript several times. Chapbooks are a smart way to display the best of your poetry. You can include a photograph of yourself on the back cover, with a biography, or a description of the book.

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Chapter 25 Punctuating Poetry!

With punctuation, it is really whatever you decide you would like to do with your poems. There are really no set rules on how to punctuate poetry in a book. As a proofreader and editor, however, of poetry, I do have my opinions about how to properly punctuate a poetry book. Whatever you decide to do, in regards to the punctuation of your poetry, I think that the main concern should be consistency. That's not to say that each and every poem in your book should be punctuated the same way, but that each poem that you proofread should have consistency, therein. For example, If you are editing a poem and you notice that there is punctuation, such as periods, exclamation marks and question marks, at the end of the sentences, yet none of the sentences begin with capitalization, that is inconsistent. If you are going to choose to use punctuation within your poem, make sure that you also capitalize the first letter of the word following the punctuation. If however, you find that you've attempted to punctuate your poem and it just isn't justifying the flow that you wish to represent within your poem well enough, then you may remove all of the punctuation from that poem and that is acceptable, because it is consistent. There will simply be no punctuation, to guide the reader as to where one thought ends and the other begins, but letting the readers know where to pause in a poem's sentence can also be accomplished by line breaks. Whether or not you choose to use punctuation in your piece, you may capitalize the first

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letter in the beginning word of each line of your poem, this is a choice of personal preference. Decide how you want your poems to come across to the reader and which style of punctuation, or non- punctuation suits your poem's style and message best. Whatever you do, don't capitalize the first word of a poem and only add one period at the end of the poem, six stanzas later. This is an example of poor punctuation!

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Chapter 26 The Difference Between Traditional Publishing, Vanity Publishing and Independent Self-Publishing

What Shoestring Book Publishing does is design your masterpiece for you as a work of art. We specialize in poetry books. We do however, design any kind of book; such as novels, information manuals, genealogies, ect ... Along the way we will edit and proofread your book for you, if you wish, Publish a paperback to Amazon, and a hardcover to Luiu, and provide a FREE cover and ebook, for your first book self-published with us and 10% off the total. Nothing gets published without your approval. Once you've approved a galley hardcopy of your book (courtesy of us), we will publish your book to Amazon, through CreateSpace, where it will also be available to Libraries, Academic institutions and online distributors such as Ingram, where book stores can purchase your book. We take on very few books at a time, so rather than being mass produced we work on your book until it's finished, therefore you'll receive your book in less time, while getting more personal attention. This is self-publishing. The difference between selfpublishing and publishing through a Traditional Publisher, is the way your book is marketed, and also the way in which the business is handled. A big publishing company is going to take as many books as it can, and get to them when they can. A major advantage of publishing with us, is that we are streamlined, we don't answer to anyone. We take on just what we can handle and then design the books quickly and efficiently with the utmost quality and precision. Through a Traditional Publisher, you will be offered you a deal, either royalties, a lump sum or both for the publishing

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of your book. You sign a contract and they make promises as to where your book will be available in actual Brick and Mortar stores for sale as opposed to self-publishing online venues online such as Amazon. When you self-publish through Shoestring Book Publishing, you have the option to completely control your own CreateSpace account. We will teach you how to use CreateSpace for FREE. The only fees you will be subjected to are CreateSpace's royalty fees. (See CreatSpaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s royalty calculator.) Or, if you don't want to be bothered with the technicalities of self-publishing, we will handle your account for you, and distribute your royalties quarterly to you. Your book remains yours when Shoestring Book Publishing professionally designs your book for you, and you do not have to sign any contracts with us. We are NOT a vanity publisher. Vanity publishers charge you thousands of dollars to market your book, and they also make you sign a contract, signing the rights over to your book. They make a back stock of hundreds of books which you pay for. When you self-publish through us, your book is available through print on demand, and you do not pay any cost for stock. You order as many books as you like when you are ready. We advise anyone who is publishing a book to steer away from a vanity publisher. The big indicator that you are about to sign your book over to a vanity publisher is that they will ask YOU for money AND make you sign a contract.

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With a traditional publisher, They will offer you money upfront and you will negotiate royalties before signing a contract. What you are actually paying for with us, is for us to design and, or, edit your bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s interior, and cover. If you have the skills to use a word processor to design a book, then you can design your own book, and upload it to CreateSpace for Free. There How you decide to publish and market your book is dependent upon your goals. Do you wish to only publish a book so that its contents may be shared with friends and family, or do you desire to market your book so that it may be available to a more wide spread audience such as in small and large Brick and Mortar bookstores? Whatever you decide you'd like to do, in regards to the marketing of your book, if you choose to have Shoestring Book Publishing professionally design your book, we will act as an agent for you and send submissions to appropriate large and small presses. We will charge nothing for this service, until your book is accepted for publication, then we will charge 5% royalties for five years. Please keep in mind that the mainstream publishing process is like the growth of a bamboo. If your goal is to get your book into Brick and Mortar bookstores it is going to take some time. many great authors spent years promoting their works before they were noticed. In order for your book to be accepted by a Traditional Publishing house, you will more than likely need a Book Proposal for your book, depending on the submission

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guidelines of each publisher. Shoestring Book Publishing offers a service that provides Book Proposals for poetry books and novels. The purpose of an agent is to have someone to submit your book file in the proper format which the publishing press is requesting, which will vary among the different presses. Also a biography with a synopsis containing contact information. Some will request the whole manuscript either digitally or by snail mail, specially formatted. Each publishing press has different guidelines, which need to be followed carefully, otherwise they will most likely discard your submission. It will most likely take 2 to 6 months to get a response from a publishing house in regards to a submission. It is likely you will go receive many rejections before your book is accepted. This process could take years. You could write the book proposal yourself and send submissions to traditional publishing houses all on your own. All an agent does is perform the book submissions steps for you, so that you don't have to go through the grueling process of following the different guidelines of each publisher and receiving many, many rejection letters and emails. Some publishing agents have personal connections with large and small presses, we however do not. We simply have an understanding of the process of book submissions to large and small presses and can be the middle man for you, taking the slack, to spare you the headache of submissions and rejections. Also, once your book is accepted by a large or

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small press, we will guide you with the decision making in understanding what you are actually signing in your contract. So, If your goal for publishing your book is to produce a nice professionally designed book, that represents an original work of art, to share with friends and family and you are not looking to have your book in bookstores, self-publishing is all that you really need! The cost is 5.00 per page, for text only (Pictures are extra.) And if you decide to self-publish, and make submissions to traditional publishers as well, we can act as an agent for your book in the meantime. We also help you with many other obstacles in designing your book, like deciding on a book title, which we are experts in, ghost writing your Author's Biography, Preface and/or Introduction and Forward upon request, for FREE! We are available to speak with you 24/7 and will respond to your email inquiries within 24 hoursâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; time. In addition to uploading a paperback, and an ebook version of your book for FREE with first book published and a hardcover version of your book, through Lulu.com We will send out a FREE galley hardcopy of your book to you, so that you may review your book for any corrections that need to be made, before your book goes live to the public for sale. I can guarantee, you will not find a professional book designing service anywhere else, that offers as much personal attention as we do, at such a low price, without signing any contracts or rights over to your book.

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You could delay the publishing of your masterpiece and legacy, that every writer is sure to desire to leave behind, by searching the internet for years, making phone call after phone call to umpteen different professional book designers and I can guarantee that you will not find a better deal. So what are you waiting for? Let Shoestring Book Publishing professionally design your book for you and have it in your hands within 90 days or less! Oh and did I forget to mention that we make publishing your book fun?

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Chapter 27 Understanding the ISBN

Publishing your work has never been easier. In such a market, making sales has never been more difficult. One of the most important factors in making your book available to as many points of sales as possible is owning your own ISBN. Imagine that we have a warehouse of books. You want to know what all the books are in the warehouse so you can choose the ones you want to read. You are provided with a list of ISBN numbers. Now you can look up those numbers and find out what each book is. There are huge databases that are nothing more than book catalogs based upon the principle of attaching each book an ISBN. The publisher will spend a good deal of time filling out all of the information in this database so that the book is well represented. Now any bookseller can find the book by name, author, genre, etc. They even have you upload a copy of the book so they can have their computer scan the digital copy for keywords to use. What this does is make your book available to anyone looking for something similar to your book. Once they find it, then the ISBN tells them who to order it from and the pricing. When one self publishes, typically, the company you publish with, CreateSpace, Lulu, etc. provide you with an ISBN. They do not, however, spend a great deal of time filling out the information on the ISBN. This means that many places looking for your book will not have an easy time finding it. It is our recommendation at Shoestring Book Publishing that it is best to have your own ISBN that you bought and paid for

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and that you (or your publishing agent) are responsible for filling out properly. Only this assures that you have control over the information and the accessibility to your book. Think about all of the extra hits your book will get just from having a plethora of keywords selected directly from the book's pages. These are the little things that make a huge difference in sales. Do not let a publisher represent this service as some kind of special marketing they do. Any decent publisher worth their salt will properly maintain the information on each ISBN number for every book. You may need one for a paperback, one for a hardcover and even one for an ebook. Having an ISBN for your ebook means that it can be looked up in any library. Why would anyone NOT want that for their book? ISBN numbers are not inexpensive. They can cost up to $50 apiece. I assure you, that is a great amount of marketing you get for such a small investment.

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Chapter 28 Shoestring Book Publishing is NOT a Vanity Press!

The base price for a 108 page book through CreateSpace's print on demand FREE Self-Publishing option, is only 2.15! That's less than half Outskirt's Press' 108 page paperback book, which is 4.69 just for one copy! Why pay almost double? Outskirts Press, provides a similar service to Shoestring Book Publishing, but for more than twice as much. Not only for your book design services, but for the cost of your book as well! Why pay more? The cost for a 108 page book, under the Professional Publishing Package, with Shoestring Book Publishing, would be 540.00 less the 10% discount for first time customers, which would be 486.00. The Diamond Publishing Package, with Outskirts Press, is 999.00. That's 513.00 in savings by choosing Shoestring Book Publishing over Outskirts Press and you get so much more with us for so much less! You could spend your time, shopping around to other book designers, that will self-publish your book, send them emails, and they'll call you on the phone and provide you with higher prices than we'll offer. Chances are, they'll have you signing contracts before you even know what your total is! Be wary of vanity publishers, like Tate Publishing, who will email you a very long contract for you to sign, basically signing the rights to your book over, agreeing for you to pay them thousands of dollars to design and self-publish your book, with false promises of aggressive marketing for your book. We are 100% honest with our customers, there are no hidden fees or complicated contracts to sign. Shoestring Book Publishing is NOT a vanity publisher! We are book designers, and editors, who will Self-publish your book for you for free, through Lulu and CreateSpace, and

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manage your account, so you don't have to do anything except receive royalty checks! The rights to your book remain entirely yours. With a vanity publisher, you sign over the rights to your book. They are still responsible for paying the author royalties, however, tie the author down to only their publishing company with the particular book contracted. It is best to sign a book contract, with a company that is willing to pay outright a lump sum for your book. Unlike a vanity publisher, which will charge YOU for the design AND the amount of books THEY determine to be printed. With Shoestring Book Publishing, you can have your book designed, edited and self-published, better preparing it for a Large Press that is willing to pay YOU for your book, like HarperCollins Books. If you have your book designed through us, we will act as a literary agent for you upon request, submitting your book to Large Presses like HarperCollins and Penguin Books. It costs nothing for us to act as a literary agent for you, unless your book gets sold. All details can be found in our 'Terms and Conditions' clause. You can trust Shoestring Book Publishing to be the best deal out there in designing one of your beloved heart's treasures, your book! As Self-Published Novelists and Poets ourselves, we understand how much labor goes into writing a book. If you are able to find a book design company that offers a lower price than we do, for what we offer in the Professional Publishing Package, we will match that price! You have our word, that you will receive professional quality book designing at a fraction of the price you will find anywhere else! What are you waiting for? Call us today!

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Chapter 29 Testimonies about Shoestring Book Publishing

What customers are saying about Shoestring Book publishing! I have published 3 books through Shoestring Publishing and am very pleased with their work. I know both the team very well, Allan and Alison. They go out of their way to get the work done professionally. Their marketing is also good and the styles and templates they use are good. I recommend you go to them. First it will save you a lot of money and secondly, your publicity will improve greatly as they reach in CreateSpace, Amazon, Lulu and other sites including their own website and marketing wing. You never have to worry about any money because they are honest people, who enjoy doing what they do and work hard for the low cost of publishing your books. In fact they completely revised two of my previous books all over again, spending their time and money to make big improvements. I am now contemplating giving them all my future books! I do have lots of trust in their professional standards. I have recommended over a dozen writers to their Publishing business and I think most are very happy. You wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t regret the services they offer you. Please communicate openly with them so they know what exactly you want. Both Alison and Allan will oblige you immediately. -Marshall E Gass, Author of Whispers in a Thunderstorm, Chiaroscuro, and Tequila & Temptation

This is my third column on Allpoetry, on the advantages of publishing your first poetry book without leaving this site. The name of this publishing company is "Shoestring Book

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Publishing," which was founded and still run by two "Terrific " people, of which both are active members on "Allpoetry "..Their names are Ali and Allan. Please take the time to go on Ali's main Allpoetry page. On here, her member name is DeviantPixie. Feel free to go on her page and check out lots of info regarding "Shoestring Book Publishing "..Both her and her partner, Allan, are two of the nicest people you will ever meet. Feel free to message Ali with all your questions. You will absolutely adore her, as I did, from the moment we began chatting, to this very day, over two years later. In the early summer of 2012, I was thoroughly convinced that I wanted badly for 'Shoestring Book Publishing " to publish my first poetry book. My excitement level was off the wall, I assure all of you. While in the process of compiling the poems I desired to include in my book and being totally in my self-glory because of the excitement awarded my by the fun and expertise of both Ali and Allan, my dear wife, Anne was diagnosed with breast cancer. At that point, any interest in publishing a poetry book waned completely as one could imagine. My dear wife went through extremely invasive chemotherapy and finally, by the grace of God, went into full remission a year later. Today she is fully cured and back to the loving and vivacious women I could have lost. It was not until several months later that, by the urging of my son, Michael, coinciding with the once again excellent health of my wife, my interest peaked once again to get my book published by Ali and Allan. They showered both me and my wife with great compassion during our sorrowful crises, as if they were our immediate family. Two more loving souls you will never meet. Never will I forget that; ever! Their commitment to my book as well as yours is and will always

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be off the charts. I will never, ever forget that totally awesome magical moment when my book made itself to my mailbox. I ripped the packaging off it like a little boy thinking it may have been his very first tonker toy he had ever had the distinct pleasure of holding in his trembling hands. I was totally awestruck when I first laid my eyes on my very own 138 page labor of love to be forever adored, To see my very own name on the front cover of this dream come true elevated me well beyond cloud nine. I cried like a baby and I am not afraid to admit it. It was as a unique and precious moment in time, one I will NEVER forget, and all thanks to the patience and expertise of these two truly remarkable people. They transferred my dream into a bouquet of reality, vased in their own level of second to none rich creativity and endless hours of fragile caring. I crave so much for all of you to experience that same indescribable moment of self-worth that I did. I know you embellish going ahead with this, but maybe are frightened by the unknown. I implore you, let these two marvelous friends take your hand and walk you through it as if you were their own children. Please believe me, using them, you will experience the exact level of personal reward that I did. I would truly crave to be by your side when you first opened the package and looked in wonderment and deep pride at your very own published book. Shoestring Publishing will match any other book designing company's price if it is lower than theirs for the same services. And get this. They offer an extremely affordable payment plan for as little as fifty dollars down to get started. Think of it. You can't afford not to. This is the best value available for someone like us. These two people are extremely patient, experienced and a distinct pleasure to

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work with. Unlike other companies, you can have daily contact with them at your heart's desire. By being able to do so, this gives you a hugh advantage. I have thoroughly checked out various competitors, and having compared them with Shoestring Book Publishing, Ali and Allan come up aces every time. They have a total marketing package second to none. They specialize in designing poetry books, but also have a keen knack for novels. They work endlessly for their customers with undue fanfare to them. Please check out Ali's home page at Allpoetry; DeviantPixie, for her Shoestring information or please feel free to stop by mine and take a look at some more information. Also, please check out my first poetry book, "Love Whisperings," also on my home page .Bless you all and please consider this exceptional opportunity while NEVER needing to navigate away from the Allpoetry site. Feel free also to contact me personally with any of your questions. John A. Faulkner, Author of Love Whisperings

"This book is dedicated to my publishers, Allan Reed Emery and Alison Wakefield of Shoestring Book Publishing, who exceed the boundaries of protocol by being my mentors, advisors, friends and ultimately the best publishers I could have ever expected to find. To trust someone who understands words and their power, is to lay the sword down and accept that which is greater by far. My thanks to both of you, Allan and Alison." -Michael Thomas on 'Rabbi Schlotz Stories'

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"Just wanted to let you all know, I posted my poetry book on Facebook today, letting family and friends know they could get it on Lulu or Amazon. I just wanted to thank you both for such a great experience, you made it so easy, and you both have such loving souls. I will call you and I will be ordering my book soon. YOU ARE DOING A GREAT JOB, WISHING YOU BOTH A VERY SUCCESSFUL JOURNEY!!" -Elise Lahr, Author of Tears of An Orchid

"You guys do an awesome job! you guys are good at it! The books look great! -Candy Brown, Author of Peace of Mind, The Red, Red Rose and Winter Valley

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have in the past self-published two books through AuthorHouse but I found it terribly stressful as I had to undertake almost everything, all they did was print the books, or so it seemed. Also it was frighteningly expensive! I wait to hear back from you in anticipation we can get Miss Twizzy out there!â&#x20AC;? -Lulu Gee, Author of Miss Twizzy

"Thanks to the help from Allan and Alison from Shoestring publishing , I have now managed to fulfil a dream of mine to publish my first poetry book ' Moments in Time' I would strongly recommend anyone who wants to publish a book to contact 'shoestring book publishing Oh and i would be

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honoured if you would read my book. Namaste Kiara Much Love, Kiara x" - Kiara Howie, Author of Moments in Time

"Just wanted to stop by and say thank you so incredibly much for all the hard work out into my book! I couldn't be happier with all of it! ty!!!" - Aaron de Monbrun, Author of Stitched Memories Within My Fedora

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Chapter 30 About the Founders of Shoestring Book Publishing

Allan R. Emery is not only co-owner of Shoestring Book Publishing as well as Chief Executive Editor, but he is also a philosopher, writer, poet, composer, Reike practitioner, Chairman of the International Poetry Fellowship and Shaman wannabe. He is the author of several books and has a CD available for purchase on Amazon.com, with more on the way. Allan is one of those people who truly loves learning and yet no matter what he learns, manages to keep his mind completely open. He is your prototypical selfsufficient Mainer who belongs in the rugged country, far away from the rat race of city life. Allan R. Emery has healed a number of souls, but when I asked him if he would like me to mention how many souls he has healed he simply said he is- â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;a humble satirist and all around irreverent spiritual guy.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; So there ya go, I think that pretty much sums him up.

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Born in NJ, Alison Breskin is a nurse, a continuing nursing student, co-owner of Shoestring Book Publishing, where she designs books, and Treasurer/Publications coordinator for a nonprofit organization: the International Poetry Fellowship; Poets publishing poets. Birdsongs of Poetry and Birdsongs of Poetry 2 her first two poetry books, rough around the edges, entail reactions to her fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drugaddiction and death, teenage love and/or infatuation, confusion about life and misguided angst in general. Waking Spirit Dreams and Waking Spirit Dreams 2 By Alison Breskin include spiritual and love poetry, showing much growth as a being of light and love. Since 2012 she has realized why she was was so hurt and angry most of her life. She held onto anger from the past. She was miraculously healed by conversations with a friend and wrote a self-help book The Artistry of LIFE Knocking on the WHITE DOOR. Heartwarming haiku by Alison Breskin includes haiku and senryu poems, with an educational tutorial and fun practice writing exercises in the english haiku and senryu form. Her first children's parable, picture book is titled, The Habits of Rabbits. Heartpieces Songbook by Alison Breskin,

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was written during a time of soulful heartbreak. Oranges and Sailboats, is a chapbook of spiritual/love poetry. She has also written a junior science fiction/paranormal novel, called Violet's Kismet. And is now working on a junior novella, called The Golden Winged Euckinorn. She also plans to write several more books in the series, Violet's Kismet, and at least one more book in the self-help series, The Artistry of Life.

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Chapter 31 Book Formatting Form

Book Formatting Form, Shoestring Book Publishing Visit Our Website @ www.shoestringbookpublishing.com Allan: 207-922-8837- Alison: 732-331-7863 105 3rd Street Apt #4 Bangor Maine, 04401 USA

Fill out, and remove pages from book. Return by snail mail at address listed above, addressed to Allan Emery, c/o Shoestring Book Publishing How Payment for the design and self-publication of your book works: 1.) We will firstly require a 50.00 down payment to get started. 2.) After we’ve received your manuscript, we will ask you to choose your fonts for your book. Once you have done so, we will design your book enough so that we are able to get an estimate on what the final cost of the book will be. We will send you a bill via email, for half of the cost of the final estimated cost of your book. Once we receive this payment, we will complete your book. Once your book is completed you will receive a bill for the remainder of your balance, which will be due in 10 days days time. You may inquire about a payment plan with us, or, you may also apply for PayPal’s ‘Bill Me Later’. Exact instructions on how to make payments through PayPal are posted at ‘The Store’ at our Website. You may also make payments by check in the mail, or by bank transfer. Whichever way you choose to make payments, it is important that you let us know up front how you plan to make them! Thank you for choosing us!

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Book Formatting Form

1. Today’s Date:

2. Author’s Name:

3. Book Title:

4. Phone Number & email:

5. We will need your address to send you a proof copy and/or royalties:

5. Display Font Request (For Poem Titles, Headers, Footers and Headlines):

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a. Let shoestring decide b. Choose your own:

6. Font Request Body Text (Poems, Preface, Author bio, TOC ect.): a. Let Shoestring decide b. Choose your own:

7. Size of Font Lettering and Requested Text: a. Let shoestring decide b. Choose your own:

8. Page Spacing: a. Let Shoestring decide b. Choose your own:

9. Indents (Indentations sent in file will be applied. Unless otherwise specified, typesetter will use creative license with indentations): a. Let Shoestring Decide: b. Choose your own:

10. Design Poetry (Any other specifications in the design of the poetry, for example, centering top to bottom, or left to right.):

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11. Drop caps: (Applies to first letter in chapter beginnings with novels, and first letter of each poem, for poetry books. A sample can be provided upon request): a. Let Shoestring Decide: b. Choose your own:

12. Headers: a. Let Shoestring Decide b. Choose your own

13. Footers: (Unless otherwise specified page numbers will be placed here): a. Let Shoestring decide: b. Choose your own:

14. Facing pages, which means a poem which is more than one page will start on an even page this way the pages face to the left and the right. Recommend for a poetry book: If your poems have been arranged upon receipt, unless we can arrange the poems ourselves we will not be able to face the pages. Yes No

15. Index :

Yes

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If yes, what would you like included in your index?

16. Graphics/Illustrations can be sent to our email address: For pictures you provide to use the insertion fee is 3.00 USD each. If you would like Shoestring to add pictures, small pictures are 3.00 USD each, medium pictures are 5.00 each and large pictures are 6.00 USD each. Background pictures are 8.00 for one single page and 15.00 for a dual page each. Pictures for books should be submitted in 300 dpi. Any pictures submitted in qualities less than 300 dpi may appear blurry or pixelated. Yes No a. Special graphics indication:

17. If you would like you book to be illustrated by a professional illustrator please specify here what you are looking for. We will send your file to the illustrator who will then illustrate a sample illustration which we will forward to you via email for approval Yes No a. If yes, what kind of illustrations are you looking for:

18. Book Cover design is free to first time customers, for their first book we design. You can either send a picture you would like to use for the front cover of your book and we can

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add text to it, or we can find a picture for you based upon what your vision is. Price for us to provide three covers to choose from for second book and so on is 85.00 USD. Pictures for book covers should be submitted in 300 dpi. Any pictures submitted in qualities less than 300 dpi, may appear blurry, or pixelated. a. Send us a photo Yes No b. we find you a photo Yes No If yes, what is your vision?

19. Introduction; the author writes a beginning section stating goals and purpose of the following writing: We can ghost write this for you upon request.

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20. Preface; the author covers the story of how the book came into being, or how the idea of the book was developed. Thanks and acknowledgements to people who helped: We can ghost write this for you upon request.

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21. Dedication; The author names a person or people for whom the book has been written. (Usually one to two sentences, to one paragraph long.):

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22. Acknowledgements; this is the part where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll thank the people that have helped you write your book. Such as the people who have helped you with research and other aspects of the growth of your book.:

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23. Authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Biography, we can ghost write/edit this for you upon request, free of charge. (If you would like to include a picture for your Authorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Biography, please email a picture of yourself to us at shoestringpublishing4u@gmail.com. Please make sure all pictures are 300dpi, otherwise we cannot guarantee picture will be clear.):

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24. Text on back cover of book: Optional description of book. (Recommended) Can be excerpt from book, additionally written material, or, can be sales description:

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25. Sales description/blurb: Usually a paragraph or two describing the contents of the book. Goal is to get potential reader excited about buying your book. We can write this for you for 25.00 USD. If you would like us to write this for you please make payment through our store at our website. Sales description is mandatory if publishing through CreateSpace.

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26. ISBN: If you would like the free ISBN which CreateSpace (for paperback) and if applicable Lulu assigns. (Only hardcovers will be published through LuLu, since CreateSpace does not offer hardcovers at this time.) Book must be at least 24 pages to publish as a hardcover. Color hardcover books may not be assigned an ISBN.) Please note: CreateSpace and Lulu assigned ISBN’s can only be used when your book is printed through their press. Shoestring Book Publishing, will opt through CreateSpace to make your paperback available to the Amazon bookstore where a print on demand copy will be available for purchase.

If you are interested in marketing your book further than CreateSpace, Shoestring Book Publishing can provide you with your own ISBN/Barcode for just 49.99 which can be purchased at our website under ‘The Store’ through PayPal. Each book requires its own ISBN, ie, Paperback and hardcover. Amazon does not require an ISBN for an ebook and one is not provided. You may purchase an ISBN for your ebook for 24.99 through ‘the store’ at Shoestring Book Publishing’s website. a. CreateSpace/lulu assigned ISBN Paperback Yes No Hardcover Yes No b. Purchase an ISBN through Shoestring: Paperback Yes No Hardcover Yes No c. Purchase an ISBN for an ebook through shoestring: Yes No *Please note: ISBN/Barcode will not be applied to back cover until payment is received.

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27. Distribution Packages through CreateSpace: a. Createspace Expanded Distribution Package; Make your paperback book available to online retailers, bookstores, libraries, academic institutions & distributors within the USA, as well as Amazon.com in the USA & Europe, which will be eligible for free super shipper saving and your book will also be available for purchase through the createsapce estore This package is free through createspace and we will upload your book and chose this self-publication package for you when you purchase the Professional Publishing Package. Yes No *If you purchase your own ISBN, through Shoestring, createspace will not allow you to choose the Expanded Distribution Package. But we will enter your information to Bowker so it will be available to all of the same channels. .b.Createspace Standard Distribution Package . With the Standard Distribution Package your paperback book will be available to Amazon.com in the USA & Europe and will be eligible for free super shipper saving. Your book will also be available in the Createspace E-Store. This package is free through createspace and we will upload your book and chose this Standard Distribution package for you when you purchase the Professional Publishing Package, if you so choose to self-publish. Yes No

28. Book Price (Can be determined at a later date):

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29.) Book Size Paperback: (Most distribution option for paperback and hardcover is US Trade 6 x 9)

30.) Book Size Hardcover:

31 Upon completion of your books formatting we will gladly upload a paperback version of your book to CreateSpace for you. However, you have two options. Self-Publication option #1: We will guide you over the phone on how to set up your own account, which we will subsequently need access to until the proof copy has been approved by you. Upon this time you will need to enter your tax identification number to creastespace for tax reporting purposes in regards to any revenue. When you enter your social security number into the CreateSpace website, it will read as such; ***-**-**** Shoestring Book Publishing will not be able to see this. Self-Publication option #2: Shoestring Book Publishing will upload your book for you to CreateSpace through our CreateSpace account. We will manage your books account for you, so you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to worry about putting your social security number on the internet. We will send you a check in the mail or perform a bank transfer, with your earned revenue when CreateSpace distributes the monies to us. At the end of every tax year we will send you a 1099 form.

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Please indicate which self-publication option you would prefer. If you do not want us to publish your book through CreateSpace please indicate that here: a. b. None If you have chosen Self-Publication option #2, please indicate how you would like Shoestring Book Publishing to distribute your quarterly earned royalties to you, by highlighting your choice in red. (See Terms and Conditions below, for Royalty details.)  PayPal  POP- Pay Other People Money, by bank transfer  Check by snail mail

32 Ebook: 69.95 Published to KDP, and made available through KDP Select Please purchase separately, at our store! Ebooks are included in the ‘Custom Poetry Chapbook Package’ only. If you have not purchase the Custom Poetry Chapbook package, and you wish to purchase an ebook, please do so at our The Store, at our Website. Yes No

33. USA Copyright, 75.00 USD. Protect your book from theft: If yes, please visit ‘The Store’ at our website to make payment. Copyright will not be applied until payment is received. Copyright process will be carried out over the phone between author and Shoestring Book Publishing. Copyright Application is filled out online and author will receive copyright documentation in the mail.. Yes No

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34. Please let us know how you heard about us. Did someone refer you? All names listed as a referral receive 5% off a future book published with us. There is no limit to the amount of referral discounts you may accrue. For instance, if you give us 20 referrals, meaning people who will do books with us, you will receive a free book designed with us, up to 150 pages! (Addtlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pages thereafter incur the appropriate fee.)

35. We will hold a contest on Allpoetry.com, announcing your books release, and provide the points, encouraging entrants to leave amazon reviews. If you would like to give away a free copy of your book to the contest Gold winner, please let us know, and we will include the cost in your final bill, for the book we will provide as a prize. If you wish to give away more than one copy of your book during the contest, please indicate how many, and any other special instructions here:

36. Goodreads: Become our fan: https://www.goodreads.com/shoestringbookpublishing Participate in Goodreads Giveaway: Goodreads.com/giveaway

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Giveaway anywhere from 1 to 10 copies of your book. If you are interested in us holding such a contest for you, please indicate here the amount of books you would like to give away. We will add the cost of the books to your final bill, and after youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve made payment, we will host the contest on Goodreads for your book. Would you like for us to host a Goodreads Giveaway for your book? Yes No

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37. Other comments:

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