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Build a Platform with a Self-Published Cookbook

February 4, 2020 by diannejacob 12 Comments

image for post on self-publishingA guest post by Susie Norris

I sent off the proposal for my third cookbook with a hopeful heart. I had a good agent, a new IACP Digital Media Award for FoodMarketGypsy.com, my culinary travel blog, and thousands of Twitter followers. Creating a self-published cookbook was not on my mind.

But the news was bad: traditional publishers now found my platform too modest. After a lifetime of baking and teaching the classics, I knew I had [Read more…] about Build a Platform with a Self-Published Cookbook

Filed Under: Cookbooks, Self Publishing Tagged With: A Baker's Passport, resources for self publishing, self-publishing a cookbook, Susie Norris

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