Okay, I'm not 100% sure what I'm asking here, but any advice would be welcome!
For the last few years I've been helping someone write and edit their memoir, and now it's done. I explained about writing a proposal for nonfiction instead of writing the whole book, but they weren't interested in doing that. I made up a list of potential agents and publishers (this person is in their 80s, well-known, and of significant historical interest), but they found all of that a bit daunting.
Crucially: I said I could help with self-publishing, but under no circumstances go the vanity publishing route.
Yesterday I heard from them: they've just paid the "senior editor" at their "publisher" the $300 "reading fee", and are about to send them a further $5500 instalment to proceed.
In other words: they've been snagged by a vanity publisher.
I'm going to try and get them out of this mess, but I need an alternative. I'm trade published and no self-publishing expert.
Is IngramSpark a good option to use to publish a memoir? I signed up to get some more information, but then it started asking me to fill in my tax information ... and this isn't for me, so I didn't go any further.
Um ... help?! I have no idea what to do. I just know that nobody should be paying tens of thousands of dollars for a vanity publisher to upload their book on KDP!
For the last few years I've been helping someone write and edit their memoir, and now it's done. I explained about writing a proposal for nonfiction instead of writing the whole book, but they weren't interested in doing that. I made up a list of potential agents and publishers (this person is in their 80s, well-known, and of significant historical interest), but they found all of that a bit daunting.
Crucially: I said I could help with self-publishing, but under no circumstances go the vanity publishing route.
Yesterday I heard from them: they've just paid the "senior editor" at their "publisher" the $300 "reading fee", and are about to send them a further $5500 instalment to proceed.
In other words: they've been snagged by a vanity publisher.
I'm going to try and get them out of this mess, but I need an alternative. I'm trade published and no self-publishing expert.
Is IngramSpark a good option to use to publish a memoir? I signed up to get some more information, but then it started asking me to fill in my tax information ... and this isn't for me, so I didn't go any further.
Um ... help?! I have no idea what to do. I just know that nobody should be paying tens of thousands of dollars for a vanity publisher to upload their book on KDP!
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