A personal note from the Founder and CEO of Talking Book Club.com, Kurt Dillon:
I get it.
When you’re a new writer of any kind and you’re still working a full-time, non-writing-related job, bills usually have to take priority over paying for an editor to review and polish your manuscript. A manuscript that, let’s be honest, may not ever bring in a dime as compensation for the blood, sweat, and tears you poured into creating it. Hence, the double-edged sword, since, deep down, we all know (it’s been proven and documented literally thousands of times) that books which have been professionally edited sell on average, between 20-30 times more than books that are edited by their authors, friends, or family members, who may read a lot, but who have no actual professional editorial expereince.
That’s not being a “gatekeeper” for old school publishing; it’s just a cold, hard fact.
This brings us to the omnipresent dilemma every new writer faces, particularly writers with limited or non-existing writing budgets: “How much can I afford to put into this book, with a reasonable expectation that I can make at least that much back?”
I’m not going to pretend that I received some divine epiphany that finally solved that conundrum; alas, I did not.
What I have done is I’ve used my 30+ years of experience in and around the writing and publishing industries and I’ve created an innovative new way that you can now obtain the services you need to give your book the best chance for success that you possibly can, while spreading out the costs associated with those priceless professional services in a way that virtually anyone, on any fixed income or budget can afford.
Self-publishing your book is hard enough. No matter how skilled an author you are, we all need help polishing our creations. Making them as attractive to consumers as possible, marketing them directly to the people most likely to be interested in buying them, instead of wasting money advertising to masses who couldn’t care less, and constantly adding new and modern ways of presenting your ideas into the ether so that literally anyone, anywhere, can ingest them, should be the constant focus of any moden-day publisher. They are 100% the focus of Talking Book Club.com and they are 100% the reason why I created the company and decided to become a publisher.
By using the exact marketing model demonstrated and proven successful by Costco, Sam’s Club, BJ’s, and a litany of other wholesale retailers, I’ve developed a way of wholesaling vital book publishing services into a low-cost, membership-driven model where every author can now not only afford to get their books professionally polished, but one where they can’t afford not to. What’s more, we can do this while simultaneously coming together to amass a worldwide membership conglomerate, from the ground up – a publishing family, if you will, that can continuously support one another throughout every aspect and every phase of this often perilous publishing journey. It’s a journey that until now has largely been specifically unique for each one of us, but no longer needs to be.
When asked once what his intentions were, Steve Jobs, the co-founder of Apple, and a direct innovator of over half a dozen distinct industries that have nothing at all to do with personal computers, replied: “I just want to make my small dent in the Universe.” Like him or not, there is no doubt that he and his ideas did exactly that. Become a member of Talking Book Club.com today, and let’s work together to make our own little dent in the Universe, one book at a time.
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