Top 10 Worst Self-Publishing Mistakes
by Joel Friedlander of Marin Bookworks
on his The
Book Designer website
10. You thought you could re-use that ISBN you paid so much for since the novel you put it on last year isn’t selling anyway.
9. Everybody knows the words to the song, so it’s okay to quote lyrics from it throughout your book, right?
8. The photos looked fine on your screen, and that means they will look fine when they’re printed, it just makes sense.
7. I picked Arial for my book because the name reminded me of my middle school girlfriend.
6. I know they’re charging me $6,000 to publish my book, but I get 10 copies, absolutely free!
5. I thought it would sound more impressive if I wrote my memoir in the third person. All my sports heroes talk that way.
4. I really got the unit price down, but I had to print 10,000 copies. You have any room in your garage?
3. Sure, I included an invoice with all the books I sent to book reviewers. Hey, they don’t care, it’s just a big company paying the bill.
2. It was cheaper to print my novel as an 8-1/2 x 11 book because I got so many words on each page.
And the number 1 Worst Possible Self-Publishing Mistake:
1. What do you mean, I need a cover designer? Don’t books come with covers?
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