As a self-published, “indie” author, I often receive questions from other writers looking to take a stab at publishing on their own and avoiding the traditional publishing route. The other day I received one such question, from Twitter follower melissaonline. Here’s what she asked:
How did LuLu work for you? Quality, experience, Amazon? Looking for opinions!! Have you tried CreateSpace? Trying to pick!!
Having written her a fairly lengthy response, I felt it might be useful to others as well, and therefore am sharing it here on my site:
To answer your question, I actually publish both through Lulu and Amazon’s Createspace. Each of them serves their own purposes, and I do recommend using both (I’ll get into why in a bit). I also publish through Amazon Kindle and have an e-book download available through Lulu.com. I’m currently working on a podiobook version of my book as well, but I don’t have that done so can’t get you feedback on that channel. Continue reading →
