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Originally Posted by M T McGuire
I use a professional editor on all my books, I use beta readers for feedback before they are published, the covers are professionally designed... I write press releases about them and send them out, I ring/write to book shops in the hope of getting wider dead tree distribution. In short I do everything a publisher would do although I have a very small budget. I think that might mean I'm not 'pukka' indie. I'm probably a publisher but thus far, I only publish my own books.
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Sounds to me as though you're the epitome of "the right way to do it". You're doing everything right. Alas there are too few authors like yourself; most seem to believe that they don't need the services of professionals when it comes to things like editing, cover design, etc. And it shows.