I’m sure many of you know that Yvonne is a freelance writer and editor, award-winning Amazon.com bestselling author, podcast host, blogger extraordinaire, newsletter publisher, Internet marketing guru, and an outstanding keynote speaker who enjoys making people laugh.
She is a graduate of American Institute of Holistic Theology where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Metaphysics. Her style of writing is lovingly controversial and challenges people’s belief systems in order to help them move past what she calls “Sunday School mentality.” She has earned Platinum Expert Author status for her 170+ articles on spirituality, death, afterlife, spirit communication, suicide, and politics published on ezinearticles.com as well as many other online article directories.
As a ghostwriter and editor, Yvonne enjoys helping people get their message into a well-written book or article that is ready to publish. Yvonne is the owner of Writers in the Sky Creative Writing Services. Her personal strengths include excellent communication, writing and editing skills, publicity and marketing, team writing, and business management.
Yvonne’s newest endeavor is The Sid Series ~ A Collection of Holistic Stories for Children. Having self-published a bedtime children’s book myself, I was curious how Yvonne went about self-publishing her book.
Yvonne's Self-Publishing Process:
After self-publishing my first book in 2004, I knew what was involved when I started to publish my second book in 2005. I was willing to do the marketing legwork again, but I did not want to handle distribution. I had addressed hundreds of envelopes and made as many trips to the post office with my first book. At the time, the average self-published author could not get distribution through Ingram unless the book was printed by Lightning Source. This limitation made it difficult for authors to get their books into bookstores and on Amazon.com. Therefore, with my second book, I opted to go with Booksurge, a publish-on-demand affiliate of Amazon.com. I would have to sell it to them for 55 percent off the retail price, which means the author makes very little on the sale of one book. But, Amazon handled the distribution and added my book to Ingram’s catalogue where it could be ordered by any retail bookstore.
I had my third book published through Nightengale Press in 2007 and even though Nightengale is generous in the percentage of royalties they pay their authors, I knew I could make more per book or else offer the book at a lower price if I self-published. This was important because The Sid Series is a full-color book inside and out, and books with a color interior cost more to print than black and white ones. The book publishing industry has changed a lot in the past six years and Lightning Source started working directly with authors rather than publishers only.
In my research, I came across a self-publishing guru by the name of Morris Rosenthal. He informed me that publishers did not
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By: Karen Cioffi,
on 11/22/2009
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• Monday, November 23 Yvonne will be the radio guest of Maxine Thompson on Dr. Maxine Show http://www.maxinethompson.com. The Shift Guru Barbara Joye www.TheShiftGuru.com will feature part 1 of a 3-part article on how Yvonne shifted from religion to metaphysics when her grandson, Sidney, (for whom The Sid Series was written) started manifesting psychic gifts.
• Tuesday, November 24 Yvonne will also be Suzanne Lieurance's radio guest on Book Bites for Kids http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bookbitesforkids
• Wednesday, November 25 The Shift Guru Barbara Joye www.TheShiftGuru.com will feature part 2 of a 3-part article on how Yvonne shifted from religion to metaphysics when her grandson started manifesting psychic gifts.
• Thursday, November 26 Yvonne will be visiting Karen and Robyn - Writing for Children at http://karenandrobyn.blogspot.com/ where Karen Cioffi is the hostess. Yvonne will tell how she self-published The Sid Series.
• Friday, November 27 Stephanie Ward will post information about Yvonne’s book on Stark Raving Bibliophile http://starkravingbibliophile.blogspot.com/. The Shift Guru Barbara Joye www.TheShiftGuru.com will feature part 2 of a 3-part article on how Yvonne shifted from religion to metaphysics when her grandson started manifesting psychic gifts. We hope to see you on both blogs that day.
• Saturday, November 28 Yvonne will post a press/media release about the book's debut. This will go to multiple online sources.
• Sunday, November 29 Amy, the owner of Equinaut and Vitesis has invited Yvonne to stop by and share an article titled, “The Writing of a Children’s Book.” http://www.equinaut.net/.
• Monday, November 30, Carolyn Howard-Johnson’s blog, The New Book Review www.TheNewBookReview.blogspot.com, will feature a book review written by Katie Chalfont that highlights how The Sid Series has influenced her three children.
• Tuesday, December 1 Barbara Techel and Frankie the Walk 'N Roll Dog welcome Yvonne at http://www.frankiethewalknrolldog.blogspot.com. You won’t want to miss this article on pet death.
• Wednesday, December 2 Shayne Packer of Grandparents TLC http://grandparentstlc.com will host Yvonne as she offers an article about young age grandparenting.
• Thursday, December 3 Dallas Woodburn’s Writing Life http://dallaswoodburn.blogspot.com/ will introduce authors to Skype an Author Network’s virtual classroom feature.
• Friday, December 4 Elena Dorothy Bowman will post an article titled "Why I wrote The Sid Series." This article features why Yvonne wrote the book and discusses some of the spiritual gifts Sidney manifested at an early age. http://elenadorothybowmansbooks.blogspot.com/
• Saturday, December 5 Yvonne will upload to Youtube a book trailer for “A Powerful Potion,” one of the stories in The Sid Series. Jennifer Brown will post Yvonne’s “Love List” at http://www.jenniferbrownya.com/
• Sunday, December 6 Yvonne’s Facebook andTwitter friend, Lisa J. Jackson, has volunteered her blog, Lisa Haselton's Reviews & Interviews http://lisahaseltonsreviewsandinterviews.blogspot.com, as the tour stop.
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If you’re a children’s author - or if you write books for grownups - you’ll want to attend this special FREE teleseminar tomorrow night when Yvonne Perry will talk about tips for marketing your books online.
Yvonne Perry is the author of a new e-book called Book Marketing in the Digital Age, Online Promotion Made Easy, and tomorrow night she’ll give tips about successful online book promotion. Plus, she’ll answer any questions you might have about marketing your books online.
Register for this exciting FREE teleseminar and ask your question about online book promotion HERE, then take part in the teleseminar tomorrow night to get the answers to your questions.
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Thank you for posting this, Karen, and for being so supportive of The Sid Series. Happy Thanksgiving!
Yvonne
This is great advice, Yvonne. I did not realize you could go as low as 30% with Lightning Source. Do you by chance know if a person can change their % after they have already put in thier % with LS? My books are through them, but at a higher %.
I continually learn from you and am so grateful.
Barbara Techel
Author of the Frankie, the Walk 'N Roll Dog Book Series
Frankie is mascot for National Disabled Pet Day & Wisconsin Pet Hall of Fame Companion
www.joyfulpaws.com
If you are a publisher with Lightning Source, you can change your price, discount, or any other information by accessing your account on their Web site.
It's my pleasure, Yvonne. I'm glad to be a part of your tour.
And, the article has great information.
Karen
Love your Blog :)
Hi, Sandie,
Thanks!
Karen
This information on self-publishing is priceless. I'm getting ready to self-publish again so I needed the update.
Maxine Thompson
http://www.maxinethompson.com
Author of Upcoming novel, Hostage of Lies, Black Expressions Book Club,
Available Nationwide
Due out December 1, 2009
Maxine, I'm glad to be able to help you with this information. I'm really enjoying my virtual blog tour. So many wonderful people like you and Karen make it possible!
Cheers!
Yvonne
Just want to say I loved being part of this tour and I'd love to stay connected with fellow, caring bloggers. Many on this tour of know how important I think tours are for letting us share what we have written with others. And I'm especially eager to share Yvonne's amazing story.
Best,
Carolyn Howard-Johnson
Author of the multi award-winning The Frugal Book Promoter, www.budurl.com/TheFrugalBkPromo
Thanks for the comment, Carolyn. You are one person with whom everyone should stay connected !
Yvonne, I agree - Carolyn's the WOMAN!
I wish you much success with your tour.
Karen
Just catching up on the blog tous and I must say that I like what I've seen so far. Good luck, Yvonne.
I'm glad to see new folks stopping by the blogs I've visited on my tour!
I'm enjoying it. Learning a lot about my cousin that I missed growing up.
Yvonne, thanks for running through several iterations of the self-publishing process. Your comments show the elements that must be aligned before the author is in control of her creative work and the business of bringing it out in the world.
Janet Riehl
Janet, thanks for your wonderful support on my blog tour.