What kind of luck have you had with self-publishing your book?

I know that my step-father has success in self-publishing his books. Msg me and I’ll give you his contact information, he loves helping people.

One of my friends self-published a book. He would watch for sales on Amazon. There were very few. Maybe as much as 30?

I haven’t done this as an author myself, but my observation has been that sales success is strongly related to the amount of promotion you do. If you can get speaking engagements, you’ll sell some copies.

I know people who’ve self-published, people who’ve published through small independent presses, and people who’ve sold their books to traditional book publishers. Some of them are tireless (one would almost have to say ruthless) self-promoters, and they sell many copies. Others just kind of put the books out there and hope for the best, and nothing much happens. Whether the imprint is Random House or My Shoestring Press, much is expected of the author if the book is to sell at all.

The up side of self-publishing is that big bottlenecked outfits with their eye on the bottom line are no longer the gatekeepers who decide whether or not your book can reach an audience. The down side is that there is no longer any gatekeeper to make sure some minimal standard of quality is met. Nearly every self-published book I’ve read is rife with errors large and small, some to the point of unreadability, and some have huge problems that the author’s sister or lover or mother somehow failed to point out.

My advice: get yourself a good editor and make sure your book is ready for prime time before you commit it to print.