Publishing

A Practical Guide

Item: How to Publish Your Own Book
Author: Hilary Mcphee

by Hilary McPhee •

February–March 1984, no. 58

How to Publish Your Own Book by Bill Hornadge

Review Publications, $14.95 pb, 88 pp

Publishing

A Practical Guide

by Hilary McPhee •

February–March 1984, no. 58

Self-publishing has always happened. Once the province of the very rich who like to press their thoughts in slim monogrammed volumes on friends and governments, or the last desperate resort of the very nutty, books published by their authors were usually given away and probably rarely read.

Hilary McPhee

Hilary McPhee is a publisher, editor and writer. She was Chair of the Australia Council and the Major Organizations Board 1994–97. Her books include Other Peoples' Words (2001), Wordlines (2010), and Memoirs of a Young Bastard, the Diaries of Tim Burstall (2012). Her most recent book is Other People's Houses.