[stylist] Intro and Question Self-Publishing?

[Shelley Alongi]

Hello David, high self publish. I have not used smash words yet. I am somewhat familiar with and the DA but haven't tried it using any self publishing websites. Right now, I am self published on the lulu.com and also I have my books on iBooks using draft to digital who produced  The electronic copies of my books. My books are on iBooks, kobo, page foundry and ink Tara. I use a team of people to help reduce my books I do the writing and editing they do the layout and publishing to the websites. To date, that is my experience with self publishing. I have two self published novels and I am working on a third to be released in January 2018. Self publishing is kind of a changing industry so there is always something new coming out. I hope someday we will get more accessible publishing opportunities. I think we should probably speak up for that because it is an important part of our work. Keep on improving your work it is basically up to a self-motivated individual to self publish because no one is really looking over your shoulder unless you go with something like Amazon who asks you to get book reviews. I recently gave away five copies of my book that was published this year through a site called good reads.com. They will help you market your book and they can provide links but in terms of self publishing that is up to us. Good luck. Let me know if you have any questions. I can't answer questions about layout because I let someone else handle that for me.

Shelley, Queen of bells out!
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> On Jul 12, 2017, at 2:42 PM, David Russell via stylist <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello List Members,
> 
> I am just minutes old on the list, and will try to be respectful of my
> new status and not hog up the time. I was referred to this list by a
> member of the Webaim Forum.
> 
> I have received conflicting advice about blind persons being able to
> use NVDA in particular along with Mozilla FireFox to publish a book on
> Smashwords by themselves using the provided Style Guide. I am not the
> most tech savvy person in the world, so "making links" or "making a
> Table of Contents" is something I could do if I had step-by-step
> directions in front of me.
> 
> I know control-k does not automatically make links using FireFox.
> 
> I am hoping to publish a small anthology in September, and have a
> friend who has stated she will help if necessary, but if it is found
> there are means available for me to do this - then she will correctly
> format the Word Document and make it ready for upload.
> 
> I do not have an author website, so everything will happen via
> Smashwords, and I will do give-aways possibly through sites like
> LibraryThing.
> 
> I have never self-published on a website before, but did publish with
> another entity about five years ago. The question before the group is
> not can a blind person do this or not do this, but as a first timer,
> is there enough supportive documentation at Smashwords and within NVDA
> for one to upload the manuscript on their own and set all the formats
> and such in place?
> 
> Thanks for bearing with my lengthy question.
> 
> I do write fiction, and am active with a group called The Internet
> Writing Workshop which is also a listserv. After I publish, I will
> join the Stylist Group for one year.. I have an editor who is still
> being paid for her services.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> -- 
> David Russell
> david.sonofhashem at gmail.com
> 
> Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
> James A. Michener
> 
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