I’ve been working out the kinks of my first novel, and find it very difficult to keep track of what is in one chapter to another one. Each chapter is 20 pages long, and I am trying to weed out redundancy. I have all the work saved in Word, saving each chapter as a seperate document. I would benefit from seeing it in a book format before it is ready to be published to the public.

Even big publishing giants mess up the editing. For one example, when I read Stephen King books I always find errors. Being top dog doesn’t mean error free.

Thanks for sharing the tutorial! ;-)

if you’d like to ask some one else how much they like this post i think the answer is goingto be.. very much, an original blog…

All the best,
V. Michael Santoro
Author, Internet marketer and creator of the Authorpreneur 2.0 program. http://www.proauthors.com

Thank you for alerting us to the error within our comparison. Rest assured the blog has been updated, and the information corrected. Also, thank you for sharing your company information here - I’m sure our readers appreciate a bigger picture of the publishers listed, Dorrance Included.

We understand the Dorrance may be the best method of publishing for some authors, and we encourage our readers to check out all our competitors.

Please feel free to post more relevant information about your company any time you wish, and we invite all our fellow self-publishers to do the same, whether correcting or adding to our analysis here.

Thanks again!

-Justin

Your statement regarding book distribution that “Dorrance offers none, only distributing books sold directly through their own company.” is entirley false. All books published under the Dorrance imprint are assigned an ISBN and are fully returnable by any bookstore. Dorrance sells thousands of titles each year through bricks and mortar bookstores along with on-line bookstores. A search for Dorrance Publishing titles on Amazon alone will return close to 2,000 different entries. Additonally, orders are fulfilled via our toll-free number and also via our own on-line bookstore.

When Dorrance offers a publishing proposal to a prospective author a promotion campaign and budget for the book is proposed, but the author is free to reject that proposal and offer their own ideas for the use of the promotion budget dollars.

An important point concerning Dorrance publishing proposals that you do not note, is that the author pays for the first press run of the book to be produced (generally 500 copies), but Dorrance then pays for all subsequent press runs (the author makes no further contribution). Once 3,500 copies of the book has been produced the author’s earnings reduce to 25% since, by then, Dorrance has printed 3,000 copies of the book at Dorrance’s cost and the publishing agreement becomes closer in terms to a trade publishing agreement.

Dorrance welcomes comparisons of the services that we offer, if they are done accurately. We request that you correct your factual errors immediately.

Thank you.

David Zeolla
Managing Director

Your questions seem to be centered on two major publishing phases, namely (1) the cost of publishing with Wordclay compared to other publishing companies, and (2) what marketing strategies will earn a self-published author the highest royalties.

To properly address your questions, here’s what I’m planning. Tomorrow, Wordbot will do a blog post comparing the cost of Wordclay to other publishers, including traditional publishers and other self-publishing companies. So too, another avatar named “Doubting Thomas” will address your marketing questions at another ASI blog AuthorTreeHouse (http://authortreehouse.com), which primarily deals with various marketing costs and strategies.

Sorry to delay a thorough response for another business day, but rest assured, we’ll address your questions to the best of our abilities tomorrow afternoon. Thanks for the questions, and if you want a real time discussion with a Wordclay representative, remember you can always connect with us via Live Chat at http://www.wordclay.com.

-Justin

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