Suncoast Digital Press, Inc.

26/04/2025

I help aspiring authors express their message or mission through publishing a purpose-driven book as the foundation and flagship for their bigger vision.

17/04/2025

"Writing a memoir...the memoir is not about you. It's about something. Use your life stories to illustrate that something..."

03/04/2025

This is a wonderful nonfiction book I just published for Clark Dean. It's heavy on science. Do you have any ideas on where or how to market it to people who are interested in new theories and fascinating facts?

27/03/2025

04/01/2025

"Everybody has a secret world inside them...Not just one...thousands, maybe." -Neil Gaiman

24/11/2024

Who figures out things like this?!!

16/07/2024

WHY ARE PAPERBACK BOOKS STILL AROUND? If I had time-traveled to today from back 13 years ago when Suncoast Digital Press, Inc. was founded, I would have asked this question (among others asked about 2024 with even more incredulity). My co-founders and I believed that ebooks were not only trending back then and noted that "kindle" devices were selling like hotcakes, we believed that this was the future. We bet that sooner than later, readers would prefer to buy cheaper and easier-to-manage digital books, and paperback versions would collect dust. After all, we're growing more impatient all the time, wanting what we want NOW (so snag the book you've decided you want on Amazon in the kindle store and you'll be reading the first chapter in a matter of seconds). We even included "Digital" in the corporate name. But we were wrong.

Today, our authors report sales from both e-books and paperback (print-on-demand) books, and to my surprise, there is no winner--sales run about 50-50. As a side note of interest, the author usually makes the same profit on an e-book with a retail price of 6.95 as they do on a paperback sold on Amazon at a retail price of 15.95, due to a print book's production and packaging cost vs. a simple automatic file download.

The following is what I gleaned from D. Doepker in an article where he was speaking to authors: "...if you prefer print books like I do...

There's some interesting research that explains it.

I heard marketer Doberman Dan mention there are MRI studies on how the brain responds differently to words in print vs. digital format.

It was done with advertising, and it likely carries over to any print content.

The brain perceives printed words as more persuasive (by over 19%). It's also 21% easier to process material in print. And the emotional response is higher to words in print.

In my subjective experience, the act of physically holding printed pages makes the content seem more "real" and valuable.

This research explains why print books, print newsletters, and physical workbooks can sell for a higher price, get better engagement, and are still purchased in mass despite the prevalence of digital content.

Now, if you only have ebooks and not print editions, consider this motivation to put your writing into print."

29/06/2024

Our client got some good press!

Deborah Miller's memoir challenges the stigma of addiction stereotypes and gives hope to those struggling.

27/05/2024

https://barbara-dee.com/a-book-that-fits-my-motto-you-lived-to-tell-it/

A Book that Fits My Motto: You Lived to Tell It! by Barbara Dee | May 27, 2024 | Uncategorized | 0 comments THIRD ACT ENCORE: Inspirational Stories to Unleash Your Sage at Any Stage A superb collection of 21 personal stories that, above all, remind us that we are all spiritual beings having a human....

17/05/2024

Congratulations to our new published author Deb Lawless-Miller!
Want to see an example of extraordinary courage and compassion? Meet Deb Lawless-Miller. When you read One. Little. Pill. you’ll feel like you know her, and that you have for years. Her story is that engaging and personal. As her editor, I know how much heart she put into her writing with the commitment that sharing her story would help others. At one point, we decided to rewrite the entire manuscript in first-person present-tense. That was the most powerful shift in storytelling I’ve ever seen. As her publisher, I’m proud to say this is not just an interesting new memoir…it’s an excellent book. Here’s the description:
Addiction has no boundaries. Anyone can find themselves struggling. Deb Lawless-Miller didn’t fit any picture she held of what a drug addict would look like, and found it all too easy to deny that she had a problem. She became trapped in a web of lies: to her parents, her husband and child, her boss, and to herself.
This deeply moving memoir takes us through three phases of her adult life: the chase, the crash, and the choice. She brings the reader alongside her into every scene, whether it’s forging prescriptions, going through withdrawals while in a courtroom, or entering rehab—but through it all, staying connected to her bottomless well of love for her young son.
One. Little. Pill. is a gripping story of the opioid crisis at a profoundly personal level. It is a true account of resilience, recovery, and the significance of a Higher Power.
https://www.amazon.com/One-Little-Pill-Addiction-Darkness/dp/1964143012/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EQLCQ63VAD58&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.9uaWi3fBHL5zS-oC5uOA3qp5RxcbwAYHGzYiA-KrmE5Py8PXVuz3nwyJyOsxhShGEa6pvPBYhlIcKK9q2XbYy0ZqgVtVLqsJY7f8k1vjkQ3zgK5PVCiW2M7UJFJHgLgJaBbDKJ9NerjldqfD04-mluIo_IoJPIFJntmHq2bv-tFeVTH4u67nFvCvm_X0OLchVL6W-TniihTDZOAzARZIte8Nxc5m33h9o9XV5VKijoc.sIOCZiIsJhCBxEP0o23ofMYsCWFYTczBN6fVUu8hMUw&dib_tag=se&keywords=one+little+pill+book&qid=1715951078&sprefix=one+little+pill%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-1
One. Little. Pill. is not only an engaging chronicle of one woman’s journey through addiction and 12-Step recovery, it’s a beacon of hope for anyone who feels alone with substance use challenges or wants to help a loved one in that situation. Deb Lawless-Miller takes readers through every difficult step so candidly that her eventual spiritual awakening and transformation is completely relatable. The victory of lightness, healing, and purpose becomes a real possibility for anyone who can muster a little courage to make a change, one day at a time.

One. Little. Pill: My Journey from Addiction and Darkness to Purpose and Light

17/05/2024

Congratulations Pat Labez ! The book turned out AMAZING! Working with all the wonderful contributors was a deeply fulfilling experience for me as the editor. This is a unique and beautiful anthology book and its purpose of both inspiring those of us in our "Third Act" of life and also supporting Mental Health makes it a triple-win purchase. It's one you'll look through again and again.

Third Act Encore: Inspirational Stories to Unleash Your Sage at Any Stage

10/04/2024

Abraham Lincoln was shaped by one book more than any other.

You might guess that would be the Bible, given the ease with which he would quote and allude to ideas from it in his speeches and letters over the years. But Lincoln’s faith was something that evolved more slowly over time, especially after the tragedies that rocked him later in life.
Instead, when he was young, he fell in love with Aesop’s fables. This was a book he read, “over and over again,” one friend observed. These fables, written by a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece around 620-564 BC, spoke to Lincoln’s soul. He memorized large chunks of the book. His mind, which had always tended towards anecdotes and story, just locked on to Aesop’s brilliant method for teaching complicated moral lessons in clever little fictions about mice and lions and foxes. It became a lens through which he came to understand human nature, the language with which he would try to communicate reality through. You know his famous line about how a ‘house divided against itself cannot stand?’ That was Jesus he was quoting, but he did it next to a recounting of Aesop’s story about the ‘bundle of sticks’ (Aesop has a second fable illustrating the same point but told about a lion and three bulls).
Where would Lincoln have been had he not been introduced to this wisdom early? Where might the country have ended up without that wisdom making its way into his brain as a child? And the same could be said for thousands of generations of men and women who were introduced to Aesop and his lessons—whether they were learning about sour grapes or golden eggs or that slow and steady win the race. And the fact that you almost certainly recognized at least a couple of these phrases or ideas without hearing the full stories demonstrates how indelibly they have made their way through Western culture.
However old your kids (or grandkids) are, you should take some time to read them these stories. Talk about and illustrate the lessons and ideas you want your kids to know through them. They are timeless for a reason. It’s because they’re true, because they work. [excerpt from dailystoic.com]