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Self Publishing Non Fiction Books

Note: If your non fiction took the form of a biography, please check the navbar listings on the left margin.

You know there are stories out there that need telling. But what good is telling if there's no one there to listen?

Self publishing is all about getting the story that needs telling heard.

Posted below are the real-life self publishing experiences of non fiction writers who have taken on the publishing houses and survived...some more, some less.

Here's your opportunity to learn from those who thought a story needed telling and did everything they could to get it read.

You'll read about successes and setbacks. You'll read about people who took

• editing
• design
• printing
• marketing, and
• publicity...

...onto themselves.

Their experiences are non fiction. They have much to teach. Do you have much to learn?

These self publishing stories are posted free for your use. I ask only that you take the trouble to comment on and rate each account you read. That way the more helpful ones will rise to the top. After all, this is The SHARED Self Publishing Experience.

Best of luck bringing your non fiction book to as many hungry eyeballs as possible!

Page down to read the non fiction books self publishing stories.

Have you written and published a book of non fiction? Share your experience!

(For biography, see the navbar on the left margin.)

You'll get a link to your site as well as to an Amazon listing for your book.

Write as complete and helpful an account as you can! (These self publishing stories will be rated.)

Tell everyone what you're doing to try to succeed in the fiction publishing world! Share with everyone how you approach this market.

Please note: Your account should be about your experience, NOT about how wonderful your book is! Promotional material WILL be rejected.

Non fiction writers share their experience.

Ironman Triathlon Training Book 
Ironstruck:The Triathlon World's Best Kept Secret

Ironstruck...The Ironman Triathlon Journey began with a website that is still struggling to ...

Fun with Print on Demand 
I'm not sure how it happened, but I suddenly began writing a complete "deeper meditation" training course one day. The writing lasted three intensely inspired ...

Black Soccer Players 
Writing the Book was the Easy Part

I have been a soccer player, coach and fan since the 1970's when I discovered the game through the Tampa Bay ...

A Book about Meat 
Confessions of the Butcher's Wife

About ten years ago my hubby John Smith and I started writing a newsletter, Ark Essentials promoting provident ...

Publishing a Story Collection 
Tall Tales & True from the Boys in Blue

I wrote a couple of novels and offered them to agents and publishers with predictable results. You will ...

Rolling Out a Book Marketing Plan 
My self-publishing experience?

Now that is a pretty funny question. My background is an engineering undergraduate degree, an MBA and 10 years as ...

Pursuing Diet Book Sales Success 
Failure is Not an Option

When I decided to write and self-publish a book, I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

Considering I have ...

Weight Loss Surgery Food Journals 
Well I'm at it again . Writing food journals that is. This time I've written 2 food journals to market to weight loss surgery patients:

The Lap-...

Plane Sense and Perseverance  
To be honest, writing was not always was my passion.

My first experience was when I tried to write some science-fiction while in school. It did not ...

Me, writing a book ? No way! 
I never thought I would write a book nor for that matter ever publish one on my own. But certain events can change everything and that is what happened ...

The Ups, Downs and Joys of Self Publishing 
Almost 20 years ago, my career teaching and counseling youth came to an abrupt end. Little did I know at the time, that years' later I would be listed ...

My Self-Publishing Odyssey 
I started in self-publishing back in the 1980s, before print-in-demand was a gleam in the inventor's eye and before writers could e-mail whole manuscripts ...

Publishing Universal Office Diary 
Mine is a simple publishing tale - I made use of the services offered by Canadian-based company Spire Publishing (formerly Publish and be Damned). Perhaps ...

A Walk on the Wild Side... 
Ever since I was in elementary school, I have written.

In grade school, I'd usually write little story books. In fact, I even had a series that I titled,...

Worth the Effort! 
As my diary evolved into a book, I began the quest for an agent or publisher. I found this quest mind-boggling and had no idea where to begin.

When ...

The Write to Flight 
Self publishing has allowed me to begin selling books that may have never reached the market if I had to use traditional methods, expending large amounts ...

Finding Investors for Your Book 
Excerpted from an oral interview:

I was an investigative reporter in Chattanooga for 10 years and had my own publication. I did some other types of ...

Write From What You Know 
When I wrote my first book, it was a story that I thought needed to be told. It wasn't a true story, as my writing vacillates between fiction and non-...

Giving Books Away 
I wrote "Don't Schedule Your Wedding on Game Day" purely for love. I've always loved college football, and I wanted to write a book that combined that ...

Lulu.com Creator Has Seaworthy Life as "Permanent Passenger" 
This title above is from a national press release of May 2008 by lulu. My book Permanent Passenger: My Life on a Cruise Ship had been rising in ranks on ...

Accidental Success 
As a former marketing professional in the corporate world, self-publishing was a foreign entity to me when I embarked upon a new career in public speaking....

Self Publishing works for me 
Writing came to me before I ever thought about being published. Our daughter died at age 29 from breast cancer and she became my muse. But I realized that ...

"If your ship hasn't come in, swim out to it." 
I doubt a publisher would have printed my first book the way I wanted it -- full color, hardback, jacket, with photographs and design to add to the feel ...

It is hard work - but it is worth it! 
I had a few people tell me that I would one day write a book, but I didn’t believe them.

In 1999, my husband, my 2 year old son “Joey”, and I went to ...

Writing and Publishing from the Back of Nowhere 
Most writers crave isolation. Some take it to extremes, moving far from the distractions of telemarketers, familiar restaurants, pleasant and peculiar ...

It's about the product 
I wrote Silicon Valley to Southern Africa from notes I had accumulated over the year I spent living and working as a volunteer teacher in Namibia. I had ...

No Guts, No Glory 
Self-published books: 11 (see below for list)

I have been writing my whole life and though I have won a variety of writing contests, never could seem ...

The Story of the Student Athlete Handbook for the 21st Century 
After playing fastpitch softball for over ten years, earning a NCAA scholarship, coaching, and going to to pursue two master degrees, I found that I had ...

Self Publishing with Print on Demand (POD) Publishers. 
As a first-time author, we (Brooks wrote with E.J. Clark) found that publishing houses were more or less dedicated to our failure. They were insulting,...

Making Book 
00. THINK:
Last summer, a guy who's been in the publishing industry for about 30 years, told me that he used to be sure of getting his titles reviewed ...

Self-Publishing Controversial Material 
A sex worker, I'm writing and publishing a series of reference books for Internet escorts (and will later open up my press to other writers - but that ...

I self published and created my own book printing business 
Four years ago, I sat down at my computer and started writing a movie script about my relationship with my ex husband. While writing one day, my husband ...

Independent Author / Publisher / Bookseller 
BACKGROUND INFO: Identifiably specific is the reason there has been such fierce UGLE Mountbatten-Windsor (United Grand Lodge England - British Royal ...

Just wanted the books in print 

Like many others, I worked long and hard putting my two manuscripts together. When I had a pretty good edited copy of my first book, I sent out hundreds ...

Marketing is the toughest part 
I was able to write this book rather quickly, because it is a collection of 45 of my brief experiences as a National Park Ranger and Park Superintendent....

Lulu is very easy to work with 
It took me about three years off and on to finish the book I wrote about dog rescue. I looked into several vanity presses and Print on Demand publishers....

Off "Beat" Book Marketing Plan 
Have a marketing plan

I finished the manuscript for my book, The Beat Handbook: 100 Days of Kerouactions, in January 2008. It took me three years ...

Deception to the Nth Degree 
Writing a book is a very personal, challenging, and rewarding commitment. You may have personal and/or professional reasons why you want to get published....

The Story I Had To Tell! 
After my husband passed away, I felt that I would like to record his story of witnessing the bombing of Pearl Harbor for his family & friends. When I ...

A Learning Experience Years in the Making 
I thought the potential audience of a casino gambling book would be quite limited, and thus the royalties small, so I decided to publish the book through ...

Pat in Publishingland  
For most new authors, I would strongly recommend self publishing your book. The amount of time and effort it takes to garner an agent and more importantly ...

90 day wonder 
Both of my books (see url's) have been about my experiences during WWII in the Pacific.

Have just returned from one of my battle sites, 66 years later,...

Catherine's Stories 
When I was writing stories of yesterday for a regional magazine, a retired business promoter requested I write the history of Mathews County's 44 post ...

Write about lawyers, deal with lawyers 
My story was very difficult to write and I hired an editor that took out a lot of things that added nothing to the story. He started out fine but abandoned ...

World War II: A Legacy of Letters - One Soldier's Journey 
I wrote 'A Legacy of Letters' for future generations of my family. My father wrote letters home to his mother during WWII. I was able to research his ...

Why Write and Self Publish? 
In this country alone people are reaching the age of 60 at the rate of 330 an hour. What are these people, who are in good health, going to do in their ...

Becoming "The One" While Writing... 
My experience with self-publishing was a very positive experience. I have deliberated, as I am sure most authors do, as to this being the right route for ...

Professional results with ASJA/iUniverse  
From submission to publication, I have had seamless, satisfactory results with self-publishing to date. Over the years I've published more than 20 books ...

Filling the Glass: The Skeptic's Guide to Positive Thinking 
Filling the Glass was originally published by Dearborn Trade Publishing. They actually did a good job promoting it for the first year or so. It won several ...

Rebirth of the Dogwood 
I was a radio announcer for about fifteen years becoming a salesman and sales manager for a local radio station and then going into insurance. At 40 I ...

Self-Publishing: Just Do It!  Not rated yet
Several years ago, I was literally whining to a friend about all the questions and recipe requests I was receiving from my customers and how I was to answer ...

Following the Advice of My Very Own Masters  Not rated yet
I had enjoyed great success with the publication of my work via traditional publishing channels. Two of my books; Musashi's Book of Five Rings and Sun ...

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