Publishing advice
This has been an interesting week for Save My Dreams. Cheryl and I had the pleasure of sharing dinner with Aaron Shepard and his wife, Anne. Aaron is the author of Aiming At Amazon (subtitled: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or A Successful Self Publisher Tells How to Publish Books and Double Your Profit (or More) With Print on Demand and Book Marketing on Amazon.com). You’ll have to read the book to discover why it has such an unwieldy subtitle. Suffice it to say that the extra words have a lot to do with winning more googling attention.
I had read Aaron’s book and visited his web pages many times before discovering that he lives in Olympia, barely a mile from my home. After I sent him an introductory email he invited Cheryl and me over to his apartment for a pizza dinner hosted by Anne. We shared good conversation, talked about Anne’s new book, discussed the memoir about my mother, and compared differences between Aaron’s book and other self-publishing books on the market. We even discussed publishing through Lulu.com, a topic which I promise to write more on later. Everything was fine until, to my embarrassment, my cell phone went off twice during our conversations (the welcomed burden of fatherhood and granfatherhood). Next time I’m in a similar situation I’ll be sure to turn the phone off.