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Book Insider: Hybrid Publisher vs Self-Publishing
My first book, Make Space to Lead, comes out on November 2nd. I chose to self-publish the book and am now sharing brief lessons about two options for self publishing that I know of. These lessons are also universally applicable to leadership:
When you’re doing a work project, when should you hire a full-service agency (go to a hybrid publisher) vs assemble your own team (completely self-publish)?
I started writing content for my book in February 2021. However, I’ve been consistently sharing my coaching & leadership journey via weekly blogs since October of 2019. Perhaps about 10–15% of that blog writing was repurposed into the book, yet the writing muscle and practice, including getting feedback in the form of views and comments from readers, has been an integral part of my process.
I started researching how I wanted to publish Make Space to Lead in January. I already know that traditional publishing, via an agent > book proposal > book deal wasn’t something I was willing to wait for. I wanted the messages in my book to come out in 2021 or at latest early 2022, and from my research I thought that going traditional publishing would take 2–3 years. This is a brief overview on the process of getting…
