Christian Writer's Market Guide by Sally Stuart - A reference tool listing over 1,200 markets for Christian books, articles, stories, etc.

The Self-Publishing Manual: How to Write, Print and Sell Your Own Book by Dan Poynter

Complete Guide to Self-Publishing: Everything You Need to Know to Write, Publish, Promote, and Sell Your Own Book by Tom and Marilyn Ross

Print-On-Demand Book Publishing:A New Approach to Printing and Marketing Books for Publishers and Self-Publishing Authors by Morris Rosenthal

Perfect Pages: Self Publishing with Microsoft Word, or How to Avoid High-Priced Page Layout Programs or Book Design Fees and Produce Fine Books in MS Word for Desktop Publishing and Print on Demand by Aaron Shepard

Aiming at Amazon: The NEW Business of Self Publishing, or How to Publish Books for Less, Sell Without Hassle, and Double Your Profit (or More) With Print on Demand and Book Marketing on Amazon.com by Aaron Shepard

Jump Start Your Book Sales: A Money-Making Guide for Authors, Independent Publishers and Small Presses by Tom and Marilyn Ross

Guerrilla Marketing for Writers: 100 Weapons for Selling Your Work by Levinson, Frishman & Larsen

You Can Market Your Book: All the Tools You Need to Sell Your Published Book by Carmen Leal

The Writer's Legal Guide: An Authors Guild Desk Reference by Tad Crawford and Kay Murray - A survey of the business and legal aspects of writing.

Adobe Indesign CS3 – Excellent page layout software (updated from Pagemaker). A bit expensive, and takes a little while to learn, but can be worth the time, effort and expense.

Adobe Photoshop CS3 – Latest edition of Photoshop. Like Indesign CS3, it is a bit expensive, and takes a little while to learn, but can be worth the time, effort and expense.

Microsoft Publisher 2007 – Okay page layout software. Less expensive and a bit easier to learn.

Lightning Source Inc. - This is a POD (Print On Demand) operation. It has close ties to Ingram / Spring Arbor book wholesalers. Ingram supplies for the secular bookstores; Spring Arbor supplies for Christian bookstores. Lightning Source supplies to Amazon.com, BarnesAndNoble.com, and many other online booksellers.

Self-Publishing.com - Broker for both offset (traditional) and digital (POD) printing. Also offers services for editing, interior formatting and cover design.

Lulu - Simple to use. Fairly priced for very short runs. If you don't have professionally formatted manuscript, you can create a basic one using Microsoft Word. If you don't have a professionally designed cover, Lulu offers simple, generic ones.

CreateSpace - POD owned by Amazon. Simple to use and gets your book listed on Amazon. Must have properly formatted PDF files for interior and cover.

ISBN - ISBN stands for International Standard Book Numbers. You apply for ISBNs for your books at this site. Whoever holds the ISBN for your book is the publisher of record.

Blogger.com - Popular blog  site creator owned by Google. Immediately indexed by Google. You can set up your own blog site very easily, and for FREE. Visit my blog site, The Faith Log, for a sample of what you can do.

Wordpress - Another free blog creator that is popular and easy to use.

Ivan Hoffman - This is the web site of Ivan Hoffman, an attorney with experience in the law as it relates to publishers and writers, including copyright, trademark, design and intellectual property law. He has many informative articles (for free), including special sections for writers and publishers and recording artists and songwriters.

Big Stock Photo - Great source for low cost royalty-free stock photos.