When it comes to book publishing most of us have a very solid idea in our heads about what that process looks like; you write a book, present it to a literary agent, who in turn presents it to book publishers, and eventually one publisher chooses to print the book having been bowled over by its literary excellence. This of course, being the ideal scenario is often not what actually happens. Writers who are able at all to construct a story that has a beginning, a middle, and an end are lucky enough; for it to be called good by anyone other than their mother is a miracle; and for it to garner the attention of book publishers is something akin to winning the lottery. Most book publishers, in fact, will not accept unsolicited pieces of work; they must instead come to them represented by a literary agent. But literary agents are hard pressed to represent authors who have not yet been published. You see the dilemma.

When all is said and done there are in fact writers who find themselves on the lucky side of the coin when it comes to book publishing. And there are far more who do not. But this does not mean that their hopes and dreams of publishing are absolutely dashed. There is the option of self publishing which allows writers to realize their dreams even if the reality looks somewhat different.

Self publishing essentially puts the power of printing in the hands of the writer who, while learning how to publish a book, will make all decisions pertinent to the final product. Through self publishing avenues – nowadays found online – writers can choose everything from the quantity of books to be printed to the binding used on their book – all in the quest to see their work in print.

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