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My first thanks must go to my readers, especially those who have taken the trouble to post reviews on Amazon’s websites. I’m sure I speak for many writers when I say that positive reviews – on Amazon and elsewhere – lift the spirits in a way that little else can.

My thanks to my beloved and beautiful daughters Sarah Mercedes and Kerry Portia for their tolerance of the time I devote to writing, and for telling me that my books are wonderful. Their objective criticism is always welcome.

My thanks to Dr Vernon Coleman, a fine English gentleman and a highly successful self-publisher, for his extensive and important body of work; for the effort and time he’s devoted to a number of important campaigns and causes; for inspiring self-publishers for over 20 years; and on a personal note, for penning testimonials for a number of my books which have given me great encouragement, particularly the one he wrote for The Glass Ceiling Delusion. Self-publishers who are disappointed at not being contracted to a commercial publisher should read the Mission Statement of The Publishing House, Vernon Coleman’s self-publishing concern, which I reproduce in the second half of chapter 1. They might then be heartened and proud to be self-publishers; they should be.

My thanks to friend, businessman and Yorkshire-based author Andrew Heslop for his feedback on a number of chapters, most notably the chapter on the financial aspects of the commercial self-publishing model. If he were not so successful as a business consultant he’d possibly write more books so we must hope – for our sakes, if not for his – that he runs out of work. I hope to publish his book of short stories one day. His story about football-playing nuns is a favourite.

My thanks to the highly talented freelance professionals without whom this book would not be what it is: Charlie Wilson, my proofreader/copy editress; Roger Day, my photographer; and John Rose of John Chandler Design Associates. My thanks to John Chandler and Doug Morris of Wordzworth, for their appendices. What’s that? No. I don’t mean they gave me body organs. Give me strength. The appendices in this book.

My thanks to the editors and publishers of the dictionaries of quotations I draw upon in this book, as well as those who run quotation websites. Thanks also to Wikipedia for most of the biographical details I’ve associated with those quotations.

My thanks to Bo Bennett and the other clever chaps (and Melissa) at eBookIt.com for formatting and distributing this ebook edition.

My thanks to you, dear reader, for buying this book. I hope it at least meets your expectations. If you enjoy reading it, would you be so kind as to post a review on Amazon? Thank you.

Please feel free to email me with comments or queries you might have about self-publishing or indeed about any of the topics covered by my books: mikebuchanan@hotmail.co.uk.