HUMANITY SANS HUMAN
My first book Humanity Sans Human was a picture book showcasing some of my black and white street photography. There are so many forms of street photography. The photos in this book are a form of street photography as I see it. Humanity Sans Human makes the suggestion that people were around but there are no people in the frame.
I did this book as a kind of practice to get a feel for the self publishing process. I did not think too much about the formatting or the picture categories I really just wanted to go through the self publishing process and this project was something I could put together really quickly to go through the self publishing process.
I didn’t do much promoting of this book mostly just to family and a few friends. It allowed me to go through the self publishing process as well as check off an item on my long bucket list.
The reason why I wanted to learn about self publishing a book was to eventually publish my life long project of the Gospel Story from A to Z. I thought if I learned the process and it was an easy process it would motivate me to finally finish the Gospel Story, and guess what it worked. Read my next post to find out all about it.
Things I learned about self publishing
If you have everything completed it is a fast easy process because you do not need the publishing company to do things like edit or pick images. Basically, they assign the ISBN#, the library of congress # and publish the book. You get two chances to make any changes to the writings and check for errors, misspellings, etc. any changes made after these two changes will cost extra. Since my test book was mainly pictures with some short captures it was easy.
The self publishing company makes a bit of money off of just publishing but where they make the most money is once the book is published. They try and sell you a marketing package, which you do not need but they play on your vanity. Some of these marketing packages are huge sums of money and they are good at their sales job. They play on your vanity saying things like “This is the best book I have ever read, we can probably turn this into a movie.” If you are not careful you will end up paying a whole lot of a marketing package you do not need.
Because I knew I was just doing this book as a test none of their pitches worked on me because this was not the book I wanted to market but this gave me valuable information for the book I did want to sell.
DEEHIBBS Speaks 