After a long time of writing and rewriting, you wrote the last word that marked the end of your first novel. Filled with excitement, you decided to go for publishing your first book. Then you ask yourself, “Can an “average person” as me publish a book?”

Publishing a book may sound simple but in reality the process is time-consuming and requires a lots of hard work and haggling. Publishing includes: the stages of the development, acquisition, copyediting, graphic design, printing, marketing and distribution of the book.

Most books are published by a small number of very large book publishers. Many of topics book publishing house does not entertain unsolicited manuscripts submitted directly to them by unestablished authors. At these companies, unsolicited manuscripts are thrown out, or sometimes backed, if the author has provided pre-paid postage.

Thousands of authors have created their own publishing companies, and self-published their own works in answer to this difficult situation. One of these companies is All New Horizon publishing house.

All New Horizons book publishing division was created by an author, for authors. It focuses on the needs of creative writers and artists. All New Horizons provide authors publish on demand services to help them get published. And we have two types to compare between Traditional Publishing and Self-publishing.

In traditional publishing, the author after completing his manuscript submits a query letter or proposal to a publishing house. The editor reads it and decides whether to accept it or to publish it. If the publishing house accepts the book for publishing, the house buys the rights and pays the writer royalties. Then house plans the designs and packages of the book, prints copies, markets and finally distributes the finished book.

When an author decides to self-publish, he becomes the publisher of his manuscript. The author does the proofreading as well as provides artwork for his book designs. Acquiring funds for the publishing, marketing and distribution of the book are also the responsibility of the author. In the past, numbers of printed copies of the book are dictated by the authors. Sometimes these estimates exceed that of the actual number of books sold causing surplus of unsold books. Nowadays, a new technology called Print on Demand (POD) is being used by self-publishing companies to address the above concerns. In POD, new copies of a book are not printed until an order has been received.

What is a book publishing company? A book publishing company refers to either a traditional publishing company or an independent one. Which of the two you choose to go with will depend greatly on what type of book you want to publish and what you want to do with it. If you have written a very traditional type of fiction or non fiction book that will most likely sell well, then you may have no problem getting published traditionally. However, if you have a very original strange book, such as one for children that may be a harder sell, then you may need to get published independently. These are not definite standards to go by but they will give you an idea of where to start when publishing.

Most traditional publishers handle many types of books but you will want to make sure the one you are submitting a manuscript to handles the type of book you have written. For instance, if you write children’s books then search for a children’s novel publisher. Or, if you’ve written non-fiction, go with a non-fiction book publisher. It is really common sense but you need to research the publishers either online or at your local library. When you get a list made of who you want to send manuscripts to, then you need to research each one’s guidelines. Many times you will need to send a query letter or samples to the publisher first, then a manuscript only after they ask for it. If you send a manuscript to a publisher who requires a query letter first, you are wasting your time, because they will not read it.

When you are interested in going with an independent publisher, you will need to follow a different set of rules. Most of the time, they will offer you a publishing guide to look over before you decide to go with them. This guide will outline the process they use for publishing as well as give you an idea of what services they provide for you during the process. The main advantage of going with an independent book publisher is the ability to get a book published that doesn’t fit specific categories or is very unusual. You may want to produce a children’s pop-up book with stickers and scratch and sniff pages. This is kind of an outrageous idea but it is more likely to be made if you go through an independent book publisher.

The best advice for choosing a book publishing company that will best suit your needs is to research what types of books that company usually makes. Then, you need only send in your work following the guidelines they set for submission of work. Using the right tools for the job is going to make your experience getting your book published a much more enjoyable one. Use your best judgment to decide which book publishing company will have everything you need or want.