Amazon does a really good job considering these are print-on-demand books. It makes self-publishing a possibility. Not that long ago I would have needed to pay a small fortune for a small print run and then handle shipping myself. It wasn’t really feasible.
I'm on the other side of the literary planet writing fiction, to varying degrees of effectiveness. Developing good writing habits is proving to be painful, but I'm doing it.
If I could give one piece of advice to anyone writing, it would be to buy and read The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield. It completely turned me around as a writer. I was the typical journalist dreaming of being a novelist, with at least 20 unfinished books on my hard drive, none of them more than 12,000 words long. I read The War of Art and then I wrote three 80,000-word novels in two years. I’m not saying they are good, but they are written. And that was a direct consequence of reading that book, which showed me so clearly what had been happening before.
This is an excellent read so far. Very impressive. I've read at least a dozen or so self-published works over the past few years, and most (not all) are somewhat ragged and really would benefit from professional editing. Not this. You really know what you're doing. Well done.
I plan to start reading next weekend, but I just flipped it open and the first line I read mentioned Studio 54. LOL
