| I hope it never happens to you, but if you submit to | | | | Not at all. Exactly that is going on all the time, for |
| most craft book publishing organizations you stand a | | | | dozens of DIY craft book publishers who have |
| better than average chance of getting rejected. | | | | already discovered how simple the process can be... |
| Maybe you already have. The problem is that the big | | | | and how profitable! |
| publishers are looking for the next Dan Brown or J.K. | | | | The traditional publisher has to think about paper |
| Rowling and the small specialist craft publishers have | | | | costs, print costs, warehousing and distribution, |
| to do a lot of math before they can invest in an | | | | advertising, marketing, an almost endless list. It's not |
| unknown author. | | | | surprising that they want to see estimates of pretty |
| The antidote is to publish your craft book yourself | | | | big returns before they agree to print. |
| and you can do it using pretty much the same tools | | | | Doing it yourself requires nothing like the investment. |
| you used to write it in the first place! | | | | You need a computer and a connection to the |
| Your computer can become the center of a | | | | internet - which you've already got - and you need a |
| publishing business that can reach around the world. | | | | blog or website. A blog is recommended as it's |
| What's more, it can be marketing and selling your | | | | something that you can easily do yourself, but even |
| craft book while you're on vacation, even while | | | | if you pay someone to build a site for you it's only |
| you're asleep! It might be three am where you are, | | | | going to cost a few hundred dollars. That's it. |
| but on the other side of the globe people could be | | | | DIY craft book publishing doesn't require a big |
| looking for your craft book - and the automated | | | | investment in materials or machinery because firstly |
| systems you set up will sell it and deliver it to them. | | | | you publish digitally and second you use a |
| You wake up in the morning and find you've got | | | | print-on-demand company who will start at a |
| more money in your bank account. Just a dream? | | | | minimum order of just one! |