Wayne H Drumheller

Writing As Art, Editing & Publishing Wayne H Drumheller

Writing As Art, Editing, and Publishing is a 100-pages-self-guided, illustrated book that takes writers and artisans through the 'pages, phases and stages' of self-publishing in any genre. We have the tools to publish today that were often out of our reach as recently as five-to-ten years ago. Particularly, "Indie" publishing has had a clear historical path to success beginning with many great authors. If we choose, like some before us, to publish ourselves and commit to the cost and specifics self-publishing, we can have artistic control and possible higher returns from our book promotions, signings and sales. For me, as a self-publishing advocate, editing and moving a book to the point of sales, can only begin when the author has an authentic printed proof copy of his or her book in their hands. Anything before this: typed and re-typed revisions pages, inserted notes, and partial or complete sentence inserts, etc. on your computer files or standard print paper, is still in artistic phases and pages of writing. The writer makes a commitment to publish when they upload and print an edited "proof copy" book with an illustrated cover, title and legal copyright page, introduction, dedication, acknowledgements, content page, well written contents, summary or about the author page and correctly formatted back cover bio page.