​​Some Serious Advice​ to help improve your odds of succeeding in publishing. People write and publish for many reasons, and there are many ways to define success and failure.​​Most books—even books published by major publishers with highly paid and experienced staffs—fail to earn back their cost of publishing. These links should help:

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​​InfoForAuthors is a source of information, inspiration and advice for beginning and veteran authors, particularly self-publishing authors. It can help authors who operate their own publishing companies, use the services of self-publishing companies, or are published by traditional publishing companies. It's also for writers who are unsure of their path to publication.

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Silver Sands Books ​is a small, independent publisher concentrating on helpful books which make technical subjects easy to understand. Two specialties are publishing and telecommunications.



Michael N. Marcus​ provides advance assessments of books before authors go to the expense of having them published. A negative preview is much better than a negative review. Get help before it's too late to make changes.  Michael also provides editing, design, formatting, publishing and publicity services.



BooksForAuthors has reviews of books for authors.



​Real Publishers If you want to use a real self-publishing company, not a fake one like 99 Buck Books, here are some recommendations:

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1. For printing only, where you do all of the prep work: CreateSpace

2. For the least expensive book publishing package with a custom cover, honesty, respect and quick publication: Wasteland Press

3. For various degrees of service and assistance: CreateSpace

4. For ebook production and distribution: eBookit