Self-Publishing

It is increasingly hard to get in front of a publisher. Many publishers no longer accept manuscripts and literary agents are overloaded with submissions. So how do you stand out from the crowd and get published?
Self-publising on CompletelyNovel is a great way to get your book out into the world and can also help you get published. Through self-publishing, we offer you the opportunity to build up a profile for yourself, get feedback on your book, sell copies and prove that your book has a market. This means that if you later choose to submit your book to a publisher, you are in a much stronger position.

Self-publishing on CompletelyNovel is easy. It is free to set up and only takes a few minutes to create your book online.

We link directly to print-on-demand printers. That means you don’t have to pay for any printing up front. Once you self-publish your book on CompletelyNovel, anyone can buy a copy from the website and our printers will print just one copy, and send it directly to the customer. The photo on the left shows what our printed paperback books look like.

You can find out more about print-on-demand on our Print-on-Demand information page

We have our own BookStreamer, which is a ‘YouTube’ for books. It lets you share your book online, but without letting others download or copy the book, so it’s great for promoting your book.

On CompletelyNovel there are different ways to start self-publishing. The one that’s best for you depends on what you want as a self-published author.
If you would like to make your book available for people to read in our BookStreamer and buy as a paperback from the CompletelyNovel website, then the Publishing Free Plan is ideal.
If you would like your work to be available in other formats, then you will probably want to choose the Publishing Plus Plan.
For those writers who want to have full distribution to retailers and a full professional service, our Publishing Pro Plan is the way to go. Find out more about our publishing plans.

Here on CompletelyNovel we are building up a directory of Publishers, Agents and literature organisations to help writers find out more about the publishing industry and the people within it who might be helpful.
Publishers on CompletelyNovel
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You can discuss your book with other writers and readers from the CompletelyNovel community.

EReaders vs Books

Latest post by Harry Sivertsen on 20/03/2010

Hi John

I agree entirely but undoubtedly it will take off…I remember similar things being said about computers when they first became popular and even earlier, when as a kid TV was being broug…

Harry Sivertsen replied in EReaders vs Books

Hi John

I agree entirely but undoubtedly it will take off…I remember similar things being said about computers when they first became popular and even earlier, when as a kid TV was being brought into homes [my folks did not bother, we stuck to radio…and I am glad.]

Hopefully download facilities will enable us to sell more books though. I feel we need exploit the market as much as poss and this seems a good bet as books will be much cheaper to buy. I know of a number who have visited mine, found them interesting but are too damn mean to fork out the cash for a quality product…If I can part with many years of work documented in between 5-600pages for the cost of two pints or so and get a decent return then I shall be happy. If the punters are not prepared to pay that then perhaps I will give up!

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Completely Novel

Latest post by Alan Baker said on 04/03/2010

Hi Shea. Probably best to use the facilities on MS Word. That’s what I do.
Best, Alan

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Find a book, rate and review

Latest post by Bryony Allen on 04/03/2010

Hi Shea,
I’m currently looking through the fate keepers. I’ll let you know what I thought soon.
I have an already published book (albeit not with CN)on the site which does have a streamer…

Bryony Allen replied in Find a book, rate and review

Hi Shea,
I’m currently looking through the fate keepers. I’ll let you know what I thought soon.
I have an already published book (albeit not with CN)on the site which does have a streamer content so please check it out in my portfolio link, any feedback is always helpful. I will be uploading excerpts of my new novel soon but I’m just finalising the cover art with a local artist first before releasing them. I hope that this will be around Easter. I personally want everything to be as good as possible before allowing the wider world to pass judgement on the work.

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Book Competitions

Latest post by Harry Sivertsen on 03/03/2010

Hi folks

Not the competitive type personally. I think the last time I entered anything was circa 55 years ago! Anyone remember the Ovaltinies? Still wondering if I won anything!

However, this…

Harry Sivertsen replied in Book Competitions

Hi folks

Not the competitive type personally. I think the last time I entered anything was circa 55 years ago! Anyone remember the Ovaltinies? Still wondering if I won anything!

However, this appears to be a well thought out concept and deserves congratulations.

Now if you have a slot for original historical interpretations…

Well done

H

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Latest post by shea lovekin said on 25/02/2010

Thank you Anna and how did you feel about my idea via email to phones?

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