So, self-publishing an ebook is pretty low-cost. In fact, if you are skilled in a few areas, it can be no-cost. You’ll need professional editing, or confidence that you can do that well yourself. You’ll want a wonderful cover design, which you could also do yourself or pay someone to do for $200 or so. You’ll want to format the ebook specifically to Kindle or other platform guidelines. If you’re tech-savvy, you can also do that yourself. Now, if you chose to self-pub in print, costs definitely are a factor. I haven’t gone that route, so am not familiar with specific costs for print-on-demand service providers.

And good question on self-publishing in the future, even if I had another path to publication. That’s something that I’m still thinking about and will likely cover in my next post for The Writers’ Circle blog. I loved the absolute control of publishing my ebook myself, but there are benefits to having a publisher, too.

Thanks for reading! Oh, and Aloha!