Avoid These Fatal Errors when Dealing with Publishers

Advance, you write the book and then essentially you don't make another dime until you pay back your advance with royalty sales. Very few authors ever pay back the royalty, the advance. And then you give away your intellectual property, so you give away all your IP you take in advance. But then when you go to buy your books for your own speaking engagements, then they upsell you. You think you're getting a 50% off discount, but really they're pocketing about five bucks every book. So that whole model, as I went through it for my fourth time, I'm like, you know what? I don't know. I don't know if I want to keep doing this model because I had to do all the marketing and all the work, but they owned it all. So I began to think about, you know what, my next book. I just might publish it myself. The market calls that self publishing. But I thought, there's got to be this way out there.