Step 1 – register You need to sign up at Lightning Source’s website (www.lightningsource.com) by clicking Register and then Proceed to our new account page. Within a couple of days, you will get an email from one of their people asking some questions:
Read more...In the US, you can use Amazon’s CreateSpace, and that’s probably what I’ll do if I decide to make my book available over there. In the UK, the only real option is Lightning Source. Before Robin Saikia told me about Lightning Source, I was planning to use Lulu, but I was already getting a bit frustrated […]
Read more...I’ve written a short guide that I hope will be helpful to people – like me – who want their novel to be available in paperback and on Kindle, looking as much like a professionally published book as possible. The process has been much more complicated and confusing than I thought possible, as well as […]
Read more...My publishing house is called Albatross. I set it up to self-publish my first novel, The Perpetual Astonishment of Jonathon Fairfax. I haven’t yet decided whether to publish anything else – I’ll see how my first try goes. Meanwhile, you can find out how I went about publishing that book.
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