Tuesday, June 27, 2023

                



I am now in control of publishing future work, ie. poetry, how-to books and novels through an imprint titled Oz.one Publishing. When I completed my Masters in Writing in 2006, technology as far as self-publishing goes was not as far advanced as it is today. We have online publishing companies such as KDP,  Ingram Spark, Draft2Digital, Lulu Publishing, Smashwords, and many more. I have been lucky enough to use Canva Free to publish my covers, (great guys! -thank you) and so an author can have a professional looking book, both as an ebook and paperback.

THE FIVE LIVES OF MS BENNETT

Being connected to a group of US authors on a Facebook Page, several discussions revolved around self-publishing under your own imprint. So after some serious work on my MA Novel The Five Lives of Ms Bennett self-publishing the work on Amazon KDP as a Kindle book, and also as a paperback (Print-on-Demand) has been a breeze and a joy.  Released in February 2023, I'm endeavouring to promote the book on all my social media channels and through online advertising. There is something really magical about being in control of your work this way, and also having your own Imprint. The idea is mainly that not only does your logo look good, but through Ingram Spark you can gain more distribution access to worldwide bookstores, libraries and online sellers.  It’s a kind of – kudos – currently as the stigma of being self-published has been removed and replaced with you being an Indi author.

THE LAST ASBESTOS TOWN

My debut novel, The Last Asbestos Town is now published as a 2nd Edition. There has been a few changes in the text and also I have designed a new cover. I prefer this one to the first. There is something quite satisfying about spending heaps of time: designing a new cover, re-working or improving the text, uploading all the parameters of trim size, margins, table of contents, headers & footers, and when finally your effort goes through and is approved, well, there it is – a new book with a new look that you have designed yourself.

It still begs the question: Will these books sell as self-published and as a 2nd Edition? Of course, there is much more work to be done. I haven’t reinvented the wheel, but I have new products to sell and also obtain as many reviews as possible.

Check out all my books, including poetry on Amazon here

 


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Bounty

Bounty
Prose Poetry

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett

The Five Lives of Ms Bennett
A Family Saga

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White Collar Crime

The Last Asbestos Town

The Last Asbestos Town
Available from Amazon

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Evangelyne
Published by Australian Poetry Centre, Melbourne

of Arc & Shadow

of Arc & Shadow
Published by Sunline Press, WA

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Helen Hagemann holds an MA in Writing from Edith Cowan University, has three poetry books: Evangelyne & Other Poems published by Australian Poetry, Melbourne (2009) and of Arc & Shadow published by Sunline Press, Perth (2013). Bounty: prose poetry is published by Oz.one Publishing in 2024. She has three novels published The Last Asbestos Town (2020), The Ozone Café (2021) and The Five Lives of Ms Bennett a result of her Masters degree at ECU (2006), is published by Oz.one Publishing (2023).

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