Module 1 · What Happens After the Manuscript
What a coordinated publishing project means
What you'll understand: Understand what a coordinated publishing project involves and what you'd still own yourself.
You can assemble publishing piece by piece — an editor here, a designer there, a formatter somewhere else — or you can run it as one coordinated project. Both are legitimate. They feel very different in practice.
Piece by piece
- You choose each supplier and you own the sequencing.
- You are the person who notices when the cover was built to the wrong page count.
- It can cost less, if nothing has to be redone.
As one project
- Project information and relevant materials are reviewed before anything begins, so the agreed work can be sequenced correctly.
- Editing, formatting, cover and setup are sequenced so each stage feeds the next.
- One team is accountable for the handoffs, which is where most problems live.
That's what Self Publish Me means by a coordinated publishing project: the whole path handled together, after your project information and relevant materials are reviewed so the agreed work can be sequenced correctly. What it never includes is writing your book for you.
Why this matters
Knowing which model you're in tells you who's responsible for the handoffs — and the handoffs are where first books go wrong.
What to do with this information
Decide, for now, whether you intend to coordinate this yourself or have it coordinated for you. You can change your mind later.
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