I had a noted TV celeb private message me on Twitter with the idea that I should change my book title and turn it into a textbook for colleges/universities. This is a celeb who's worked with Dr. Phil's TV production company for their own show in the past. This person is currently reading the book, and after reading about half of it, stopped to message me with their ideas. The book has only been out about two months, first as an ebook, then softcover and the audiobook is in production. This is my seventh book, a non-fiction, self-help book that I wrote in a tone that women would enjoy and recommend to men. It is my first on this subject matter, as my first five were on photography, four with a major publisher, and my sixth was on social media.
So far I've done one newspaper interview and one radio show for a major radio station, at the station itself, and the station manager is putting us on other radio stations as they are part of the Cumulus group (500 plus radio stations). I also have one pending university lecture at a major university, and as a communications major myself, I've spoken on different subjects at three universities in the past, so I was thinking about hitting the colleges before this person contacted me about changing the title.
Currently my book has 18, 5-star reviews, a great Kirkus review, and if I took this person's suggestion, then I would lose all what I've gained on the book, and I'm just now building that momentum to get the word out. I've never published a college text book, but based on my own college experience and degree, I have discussed with my close friends that I feel college professors from various departments including, psychology, sociology, and communications would recommend this book for their students to read, or perhaps use some of it's content for class study.
Now here's my questions:
1. Is it worth changing the title, losing everything (starting over) to enter the educational book market?
2. While my first four books were not self-published like my last three, including this one, should I seek an educational publisher?
3. Should I leave my book as it is, with it's name, then expand it and offer that version with a different title to an educational publisher and/or market?
Since I'm new here, I do not want to offend the admins or violate any rules, so I'm not posting the cover or the title of the book, but it's in my signature.
Bottom line: Like all authors, I want to get my book in the hands of as many people as possible, but my goal for this is because I know it will help people. I've been talking with my lady about using this book to start a movement and push it as a movement as some people that have read the book have told me it's practically "a man's bible on how to be a man."
Don't mean to toot my horn, but this was not a book written in a few months, I spent years on it, tons of research, and even had a PhD senior editor and contributor, plus other folks provide editing from women to people with master's degrees--but I wrote it in my style of writing (my background is photojournalism, so newspaper style) and as one person stated in their review, it reads like a novel. This is not written like the college textbooks I grew up with. Kirkus made fun of the title but praised my writing style, "...informative guide book's wealth of information belies its farcical title and entertainingly demonstrates...Gomez successfully demonstrates his talent as a savvy raconteur...." So yes, I'm proud of it, and perhaps my book title is a little strong, but changing the title means back to square one, from ISBN to reviews. Thoughts? Anyone experienced out there in college books?
Thanks, Rolando
Change Title, Convert to Textbook? Should I?
So far I've done one newspaper interview and one radio show for a major radio station, at the station itself, and the station manager is putting us on other radio stations as they are part of the Cumulus group (500 plus radio stations). I also have one pending university lecture at a major university, and as a communications major myself, I've spoken on different subjects at three universities in the past, so I was thinking about hitting the colleges before this person contacted me about changing the title.
Currently my book has 18, 5-star reviews, a great Kirkus review, and if I took this person's suggestion, then I would lose all what I've gained on the book, and I'm just now building that momentum to get the word out. I've never published a college text book, but based on my own college experience and degree, I have discussed with my close friends that I feel college professors from various departments including, psychology, sociology, and communications would recommend this book for their students to read, or perhaps use some of it's content for class study.
Now here's my questions:
1. Is it worth changing the title, losing everything (starting over) to enter the educational book market?
2. While my first four books were not self-published like my last three, including this one, should I seek an educational publisher?
3. Should I leave my book as it is, with it's name, then expand it and offer that version with a different title to an educational publisher and/or market?
Since I'm new here, I do not want to offend the admins or violate any rules, so I'm not posting the cover or the title of the book, but it's in my signature.
Bottom line: Like all authors, I want to get my book in the hands of as many people as possible, but my goal for this is because I know it will help people. I've been talking with my lady about using this book to start a movement and push it as a movement as some people that have read the book have told me it's practically "a man's bible on how to be a man."
Don't mean to toot my horn, but this was not a book written in a few months, I spent years on it, tons of research, and even had a PhD senior editor and contributor, plus other folks provide editing from women to people with master's degrees--but I wrote it in my style of writing (my background is photojournalism, so newspaper style) and as one person stated in their review, it reads like a novel. This is not written like the college textbooks I grew up with. Kirkus made fun of the title but praised my writing style, "...informative guide book's wealth of information belies its farcical title and entertainingly demonstrates...Gomez successfully demonstrates his talent as a savvy raconteur...." So yes, I'm proud of it, and perhaps my book title is a little strong, but changing the title means back to square one, from ISBN to reviews. Thoughts? Anyone experienced out there in college books?
Thanks, Rolando
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