Author: Mark Levine

ISBN-10: 0980245575

ISBN-13: 978-0980245578

Don’t wait any longer to publish your book - Make your own big break…

“Whether your idea of a big break is to have your book published so your story can be read by family and friends or to become the next writer on the best-seller lists, you have some decisions to make. You can publish your query-letter-writing skills and spend the time it takes to get your manuscript into the hands of an agent or traditional publisher… Or, you can take control of your writing career and spend a little money to publish your book…Forget the agents and the publishers - you don’t need them…” “Don’t wait any longer to publish your book - Make your own big break…”   Mark Levine writes in Chapter 1 of “The Fine Print of Self Publishing.” 

Levine continues to cover other aspects of self-publishing including: Chapter 2, Why You Need to Read This Book; Chapter 3, The Nine Qualities of a Good Self-Publishing Company; Chapter 4, The Fine Print of Publishing Contract; Chapter 5, Analyzing the Fine Print of Each Publisher’s Contract and Service; Chapter 6, Outstanding Self-Publishing Companies; Chapter 7, Some Pretty Good Self-Publishing Companies; Chapter 8, Publishers Who Are Just OK; Chapter 9, Publishers To Avoid; Conclusion,  You Found a Publisher, Now What; and Acknowledge.

“The Fine Print of Self Publishing” offers valuable advice and good information. It can save you a lot of time and research.  The one thing I think Levine can do to improve this book is to provide a simplified excel sheet to do an apple-to-apple comparison of all the firms that he includes in the book, lists the standard items like publishing package cost, number of author’s free copy, custom cover cost, editing cost, area of distribution, LCCN cost, ISBN cost, copyright registration cost, annual cost for maintaining the e-file at publisher’s server, percentage of the publisher’s mark up of print cost, etc. That will save us a lot more time. 

Overall, “The Fine Print of Self Publishing” is a very good book. You’ll be glad if you buy this book, it is well-worthy of your money.  

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The above review was contributed by: Gang Chen: Gang is the author of Planting Design Illustrated  and LEED AP Exam Guide: Study Materials, Sample Questions, Mock Exam, Building LEED Certification (LEED-NC) and Going Green.  

He holds a Master Degree from School of Architecture, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a Bachelor Degree from Department of Architecture, South China University of Technology. He is a recipient of the Grace and Robert Frazer Landscape Heritage Award from the Landscape Architecture Foundation. Gang has over 20 years of professional design experience.

Many of the projects he was in charge of or participated in have been published extensively in Architecture, Architectural Record, The Los Angeles Times and The Orange County Register, etc. He has worked on a variety of unusual projects: well-known large-scale healthcare and hospitality projects with over one billion dollars in construction cost; award winning school design, highly acclaimed urban design and streetscape projects, multi-family housing and high-end custom homes, regional and neighborhood shopping centers, etc. He is currently working in a leading professional design firm in the United States. He is also a member of American Institute of Architects(AIA) and a LEED AP. To read Gang's Reviews Click here.