Your print or ebook is nearly finished. You wonder if you should try to get an agent to represent you to publisher. Maybe you've already sent out your query letter to some agents. You dream how great it would be to be taken under publisher's wings.

You've already read about what traditional publishers can and can't do for you. Now is a time for self-publishers who want a print book to check out Print On Demand or Print Quantity Needed.

On Print Books--Print on Demand Two Ways

1. Hire Publisher/Printer yourself to just print your book from your word file. In Print Quantity Needed such as www.daharts.com (similar to POD) you keep all of your book's rights. This method helps you make much more profit from your effort and you will get your book out to buyers so much faster, making faster profits.

2. Hire Full-Service Print on Demand Publisher/Printers who each charge you an up front fee to set up. They too take your word files and put into Portable Document Format.

The downside? Check to see if you need these services. You don't need an ISBN # if you sell from your own web site. The biggest down to me is no control over my book. Here, you must buy back each book from printer/publisher at a wholesale price--almost half of what you will sell it for. So, your profits are limited.

List of POD Publishers to Investigate

1. www.trafford.com-888-232-4444 2. www.IUniverse.com 877-823-9235 3. www.XLibris.com 888-795-4274 4. www.pagefreeepublishing.com 88-707-7634 5. www.infinitypublishing.com 877-289-2665

These companies do not offer a good promotion plan. If you want to sell online, you'll have hundreds of thousands of eager book buyers ready to buy when you apply number one, free way to promote your book--submitting articles to opt-in ezines and web sites. Contact a reliable book coach for this information.

On eBooks

If you sell your book as an eBook on your Web site or link it to other publishing web sites, you will make 100% of profit.

FACT: In traditional publishing for print books, you must get a distributor, and a wholesaler to get brick and mortar bookstores to carry your book. The bookstore gets a percentage too. Maybe these costs will add up to 85%! What's left for author, one who wants to make a difference in people's lives?

Is there a drawback to self-publishing?

If you haven't realized success you wanted last year, here's a way to reap harvest with 86% improvement!

Use power of visualization.

When you see, hear, and feel your book project already manifested through specific outcomes, you'll be in 86% success group. It's far easier to perceive specific outcomes as true when visualizing them as they already happened. Claim your dream as true now in specific outcomes.

This outcome, "I see myself signing autographed copies" is far more powerful than "I will autograph copies when my book is done." It's always easier to look back on what led to your success than look down than long road ahead to a doubtful success because it's so far in future.

If you're like me and are willing to be 86% successful or more, you'll want to use my “Book Dream Mental Rehearsal 5-Step System" below. I've used it for all my projects including writing compelling copy for my Web site home page.

Last January I applied this system to write two new books: "How to Market your Business Online" and Seven Sure-Fire Ways to Publicize your Book." In two months I had two saleable books that are helping thousands realize their book and business dreams.

The Book Dream Mental Rehearsal 5-Step System

To help my prospective and regular clients realize their book and Internet marketing dreams, I finished these books last year: "Quadruple Your Online Book Sales in Four Months with Free Articles" and "How to Create your Web Site with Marketing Pizzazz."

On a page in my business journal I wrote these phrases:

Now that they are finished...:

1. I SEE my Web sales continue to grow from $1500 to over $3000 each month. .

2. I HEAR seminar and teleclass participants' applause through outrageous testimonials praising my easy and fast internet marketing strategies any beginner can uses

3. I FEEL grateful and exhilarated I get to have this adventure, enjoying easy work.