Millennial Mind author Daniel Francis wishes he had advice when he first started his publishing process.
Three books later, Francis and his team will host its first Caribbean author conference and author village where it hopes to provide a home for authors. His third book, How to Write and Publish Your Book, will be launched then.
The event will be held at the Central Bank Auditorium, Port of Spain, from 4-10 pm on the observance of World Book and Copyright Day on April 23.
After publishing his first two books, Francis had authors reaching out to him weekly asking for information about the writing, editing and self-publishing process.
These questions reminded him of his process and so he started doing free webinars where he would collate the questions and take the participants through what was needed.
He said he did that for about a year-and-a-half to two years.
Then he began receiving requests to create marketing strategies, assist with editing as well as help create book covers.
[caption id="attachment_1078972" align="alignnone" width="683"] Daniel Francis will lauunch his third book, How to Write and Publish Your Book, on April 23 at Central Bank Auditorium, Port of Spain. -[/caption]
“Basically, they were asking me if I could do different aspects of the publishing process like a publishing company and that is where the company, One Momentum Publishing would have come from,” he said.
The company was officially launched this year.
Out of the seven types of publishing houses that exist: Francis’s model is focused on vanity publishing. Vanity publishing refers to publishers who charge to produce a book.
In traditional publishing authors send their manuscripts or book proposals to publishers who select, edit, produce, market and distribute the books.
Vanity publishing differs from self-publishing as the author in the latter does all of the process from writing to editing, to marketing to distribution etc.
While Francis said in his in-person interview at Newsday that information is everywhere and people could go online and retrieve those, people needed to be met at their different stages of the publishing process.
“There are going to be people who want to do the research themselves and then publish the book themselves.
“There would be those who might want a book with all of the information in one place, so I wrote the book to help those individuals. There might be people who want to come to an event, meet other authors, learn about the process, meet different resources that can help them produce their books,” he said.
He added there were those who had the money, did not have the time and just wanted to pay for the service to get it done.
“That is where the self-publishing company comes by and he would facilitate that for them. There would be those who would pay for a course and let it guide them and know that the course has everything that they need.”
His model uses subcontractors and he has a team of editors, illustrator, book-cover designers and people specific to genres.
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