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Write the books that you want to write, the very best that you can write them, and build a community of loyal readers without doing anything you’re not happy doing.

“A beacon for literary values in a commercial age” (Alliance of Independent Authors)

“Dan Holloway is something of a phenomenon: poet, novelist, publisher, commentator, event organiser and promoter; there isn’t much connected with literature that he doesn’t do, and do with gusto and a probing desire to experiment.” Sabotage Reviews

As self-publishing becomes ever more popular, it is increasingly hard to maintain a steady compass as you navigate your way through the rapidly expanding world of blogs, podcasts, courses and how to books.

Dan Holloway, the 2016 Creative Thinking World Champion, is the Alliance of Independent Authors’ News Editor and co-author of the Alliance’s book Opening Up to Indie Authors. He is an editor, a journalist for the likes of the Guardian, and a creative consultant to the UK Cabinet Office and Royal Household. He has performed his poetry at the Royal Albert Hall, had performance pieces commissioned by the likes of Oxford Playhouse, and written acclaimed and bestselling works across many genres. Dan is a sought after public speaker, whose engagements range from lecturing at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum on the relationship between Aphex Twin and Puritan sermons to speaking at the launch of a major policy report by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute at Canary Wharf and delivering the 2017 University of Oxford Mental Health Awareness Day lecture.
In this book, Dan shares that experience as well as the many pitfalls he has encountered on the way, and teaches you the principles that will enable you to maintain the passion for your writing throughout a long writing life, and one characterised by success as defined by the only person who truly matters: you.

Since he founded the Year Zero Writers collective in January 2009, Dan Holloway has been a leading figure in the self-publishing community. The first self-published winner of the international spoken word phenomenon Literary Death Match, Dan has built a reputation for refusing to compromise his artistic principles for short term commercial success.

Chapter Titles
1. The Pressure to “Succeed”
2. Why Do You Write?
3. Is Self-publishing Right for You?
4. Never be afraid to be you
5. Dealing With Self-Doubt
6. Dealing With Self-Belief
7. Handling Praise
8. Producing Your Book: Picking the Right Partners
9. Building a community
10. The Whites of Their Eyes: Giving Great Readings
11. The Long Haul

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00HAHFCXQ
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 12, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Dan Holloway is a novelist, journalist, performance poet and mental health activist.

Dan is the only person to win the Creative Thinking (2016) and Intelligence (2000) World Championships, and is a regular speaker on all things creative as well as an interdisciplinary lecturer (in 2016 he spoke at the Ashmolean Museum on how Puritan marriage sermons can enhance our understanding of Aphex Twin and in 2015 he spoke at Oxford's Mathematical Institute on the relation between mathematical surfaces and mediaeval torture instruments).

Dan is a regular performer around the UK, in 2016 performing poetry at the Royal Albert Hall and a one man performance fairy tale commissioned by Oxford Playhouse. He hosts a monthly poetry night at Waterstones in Oxford.

Since 2007 Dan has been working with the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Mind and other organizations to campaign on issues of debt and mental health. Most recently, he spoke at the launch of a major report on the subject by the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute. In 2016 he gave the closing remarks to the Oxford University Disability Lecture in the form of a performance poem, and in 2017 he gave the University Mental Health Awareness Day on the subject "The Consolation of Solitary Sports".

In his spare time Dan runs ultramarathons, though as his photo suggests, he is also passionate about food.

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Mari Biella

“Be Authentic”: Dan Holloway’s Invaluable Guide to Self-publishing

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2014

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There are plenty of “How-to” books out there for self-publishers. Just as self-publishing has taken off, so too has a whole industry devoted to providing self-publishers with the services they need, or at least the services they’re judged to need. Plenty of these books are, I’m sure, great; but they also tend to emphasise certain aspects – marketing, sales, technical details and so on – at the expense of others. What if you want to go a little deeper than that?

Dan Holloway’s "Self-publish with Integrity" would be a good place to start. There’s plenty of practical advice here, from building a platform to finding a printer to editing – but, as Holloway says, “these things were never, for me, the biggest challenge I faced when I self-published. The toughest thing by far has always been knowing how to filter the deluge of information and great advice that comes my way, remembering always exactly why it was that I started writing.”

That “why” – the reason you put pen to paper or finger to keyboard in the first place – is fundamental to Holloway’s book, as he invites you to ask yourself what “success” means to you. It’s a very individual issue, after all, and probably varies considerably from person to person. Is it selling your book in substantial numbers, or being able to give up the day job? Or is it writing to the best of your ability and not compromising on your personal vision?

“‘Success’ isn’t always ‘success’”, Holloway warns us. If the success you ultimately achieve is not the kind of success you value most, then ultimately, paradoxically, you’re not really successful at all. We’re guided through the pitfalls that lie in wait for the unwary: the pressure to succeed, the importance of knowing what you really want from self-publishing, and the perils of self-doubt and comparing yourself to others. Holloway reminds us that self-publishing does not begin and end with ebooks, or even with print books, and it certainly doesn’t begin and end with Amazon sales rankings, whatever some people would have you believe.

However you approach self-publishing, there’s something here for you. If you’re not even convinced that self-publishing is for you – and it’s not for everyone – this book might just help you to make up your mind. If you’re already treading the self-publishing waters, this book might help you to re-examine what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. To push this feeble analogy a bit further: it’s easy to get sucked along by the current. Not getting caught in that current, but forging your own direction, is the most rewarding thing you can do, and probably the only thing that can lead to any lasting satisfaction. I think I always knew that really, but those currents are damn strong, and there was a time when I got swept up in them. I ended up miserable and tempted to give up before I’d even really got going. This is why I wish I’d read this book before I self-published; it would have saved me an awful lot of angst.

Self-publishing is probably never easy; whatever you want to do, and however you want to do it, you’re probably going to have to face a lot of problems along the way. But having a copy of Self-publish with Integrity to hand might just help you through those tough times. Dan Holloway’s like a kindly friend; he knows what you’re going through, and – more to the point – he might just be able to help. Recommended.

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Erzsebet Carmean

Has Anxiety and Unhappiness Displaced Your Joy in Writing?

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2014

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I'm an author who got lost. Somewhere along my way, I swapped out my personal reasons for writing and publishing with … something else. I'd lost my faith that the readers who are meant to find my works will find them. To quote Dan Holloway, author of SELF PUBLISH WITH INTEGRITY, "It was as though I suddenly looked outside the blinkers I'd been wearing and saw just how far I'd come from where I wanted to be." SELF PUBLISH WITH INTEGRITY offers a way to reset the writing compass. All you have to do is be able to give a one-sentence answer to this question:

So what do you want from your writing?

Like a Zen koan, this question appears deceptively simple, but upon examination opens into something deeper, richer, and more mystical. Doing the work to answer the question guided me to define my cri de coeur, thereby crafting a version of success that is mine, and only mine. I feel good again, excited and invigorated about writing and sharing my stories. I know where I want to go, why I want to go there, and how I plan to make the journey. If you are struggling with your writing path, I recommend SELF PUBLISH WITH INTEGRITY.

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Short to the point

Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2018

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The author lays it out simply. If you love what you write, you have to create ways to connect with others who will also love your work. He gives a few more alternatives than the usual pray for an agent or fork over money to others. Very good reference/resource for the make it or break leap from writer to author.

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Keep the Faith

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2014

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Dan Holloway's book on the place of self-publishing in a writer's armoury is well worth reading. As its title indicates the book has a sharp hortatory edge - not, this is how to do it, so much as you constantly need to ask yourself as a writer: why are you doing this and for whom? Dan neither recommends nor disparages the self-publishing process, but simply accounts for his own need for and indeed love of its opportunities, and the changes in his lifestyle it has afforded him. The book is a refreshing change from other s-p how-to books obsessed with 'success' and burgeoning sales figures.

Encourage others, but do not give them false hopes; be aware that well-meant comfort or praise is often deleterious to a writer: 'the single biggest problem with "you'll get there in the end" is that ... most of us won't.' That's telling it like it is and that's healthy for everyone, that writers, readers and publishers. One of the huge pitfalls of self-publishing is that with digitalisation it has become so easy; it's so democratic that gatekeepers have been swept aside by gate-crashers. Holloway doesn't exactly say this, but it's self-evident that we now have an escalating Kindle slushpile.

Look for an audience, no matter how small! Write because you love writing and need to communicate with others! Forget sales targets, prizes and reviews from the famous, because these aspirations stand in the way of your real task in life! Well, the book's a bit evangelical in fact, unswerving in its appeal to morality and conscience. Examine yourself and your motives and you'll be the wiser for it. I enjoyed it very much. It's concise and pointed throughout and not devoid of humour.

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Mr. D. James

All You Need is Belief!the consequent changed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 1, 2014

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Dan Holloway's book on the place of self-publishing in a writer's armoury is well worth reading. As its title indicates the book has a sharp hortatory edge - not, this is how to do it, so much as you constantly need to ask yourself as a writer: why are you doing this and for whom? Dan neither recommends nor disparages the self-publishing process, but simply accounts for his own need for and indeed love of its opportunities, and the changes in his lifestyle it has afforded him. The book is a refreshing change from other s-p how-to books obsessed with 'success' and burgeoning sales figures.

Encourage others, but do not give them false hopes; be aware that well-meant comfort or praise is often deleterious to a writer: 'the single biggest problem with "you'll get there in the end" is that ... most of us won't.' That's telling it like it is and that's healthy for everyone, that writers, readers and publishers. One of the huge pitfalls of self-publishing is that with digitalisation it has become so easy; it's so democratic that gatekeepers have been swept aside by gate-crashers. Holloway doesn't exactly say this, but it's self-evident that we now have an escalating Kindle slushpile.

Look for an audience, no matter how small! Write because you love writing and need to communicate with others! Forget sales targets, prizes and reviews from the famous, because these aspirations stand in the way of your real task in life! Well, the book's a bit evangelical in fact, unswerving in its appeal to morality and conscience. Examine yourself and your motives and you'll be the wiser for it. I enjoyed it very much. It's concise and pointed throughout and not devoid of humour.

Philippa Rees

A flare to signal warning and to cure distress

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 12, 2014

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This match struck on almost damp flint has ignited something that the very many ( I mean very very many) other how-to books never did. Perhaps it did so because the others failed, and they failed because I had not read this book first. But the question remains: Would I have resonated with every point made in Dan Holloway's `Self Publish with Integrity' had I not found the others failing first. It was not their fault. This work told me why. I had failed to ask the right questions, and thereby made myself the eager and gullible gobbler of indiscriminate advice. Indiscriminate for me and expensive and profitable for those who see us coming, we wannabe authors.

Striking this match ( trying once more) was taken just at the point of maximum flobbliness (Holloway's description of the sagging of resolve) and despair.

This book, drawn from the author's self examination, honest and critical, is a distillation of every aspect of common error and gives the reasons. I was guilty of them all. Integrity in relation to the book itself had ruled most of my life. (It was the reason it was thought un-publishable, I refused to compromise on what I knew it needed) but the moment I faced the publishing demands I bent like a straw in the prevailing winds. Having spent more money than I had, I capped it by giving even more to a paid publicist. That was the lowest moment of all: self belief gone. Writing and the market were poles apart, I could attempt the first but not the second and no advice would work for me. Nor did the publicist succeed either. This book would have prevented that decision alone.

The `cri de coeur' analysis that Holloway insists must first define `why do you write' had been lacking. It was not that it was not there (a lifetime of writing makes that clear) but had it been defined through the methods he suggests, I could never have plunged in so deep (financially) or so inappropriately. His analysis of self doubt and self belief (the two intertwined) of confidence and arrogance (and their differences) was beautifully crowned and illustrated by the engaging TED talk by Amanda Palmer he referred his readers to, which encapsulated the wisdom of all he so generously offers the writer facing self publishing. Creativity is about trust, find those you can trust, give, and ask. He is not telling `how' (many others do this) but that the `why' will define both the technical `whats?' (those that are wise and appropriate) and whether the writer can withstand the unforeseen `whats' that will accompany him/her both during and more critically after their book is published.

I have yet to digest all it offers, and explore the many useful links it suggests, but like the court of self-examination it has already called `All rise' and got me off my knees; sober and straightened. A small gem of generosity.

liztipping

Writing with integrity

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 18, 2013

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I was looking forward to reading Dan Holloways book as I have read more than a few inspiring articles on his website.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, it's an entertaining read, and actually very funny at times, packed with great ideas. I would actually recommend it for anyone at all who likes writing and wants to get their work out there somehow, even if you think self publishing may not be for you. This book will help you decide.
It's a very useful book to read if you're deciding which route to go.
There's great advice, if like me, you are a bit of a "flitter" . I found it a very honest book.
When I was reading I found myself thinking "Yes, of course!" as though I was discovering things that actually I knew all along, but didn't know I knew them, if that makes sense. It all feels very fresh and exciting
There's lot of practical tips and guides, links to articles and other works that you may find useful.

I've read a few books about writing and a lot of them have really peed me off as they've promised so much and all seem to cost around ten of your earth pounds and you read part of them and think " Erm, yeah, thanks for charging me a tenner for something I already know."
This book however is highly recommended, and I would have happily paid a tenner for this as I came away feeling very inspired with a sense of clarity. Buy it.

J R Torres

It’s a useful tool in a writer’s journey

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 18, 2017

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I’ve just gone back to parts of this book, which I bought and read about a year ago. It’s not just another how-to manual on self-publishing. It’s a useful tool in a writer’s journey, a torch for those times when you need to keep your North in the midst of noisy metrics. If you find the last chapters surplus to your needs, you can simply consider them “bonus material”, go back and focus on the key question of why you write. Few books can help you there.

A. Crofts

Every writer should read Dan Holloway

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 16, 2013

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Every writer should spend some time acquainting themselves with the works of Dan Holloway - and this one would be a very useful place to start. He is our conscience but he pricks us only gently and kindly.

If you are actually interested in self-publishing, and you would also like to cling on to your integrity, then I don't think there is any excuse not to read this book.

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