
You’ve already sold more than 100,000 ebooks. Your novel series “Im falschen Film” sold 60,000 copies on the Internet alone. You have been working as a selfpublisher since 2012. We visited the author in the Bergmannkiez in Kreuzberg and looked behind the scenes of his success: How does somebody become a self publisher, and at what price? Why not just go to a renowned publishing house?ĬCB Magazine: Hello Michael. He himself wrote 400 screenplays and contributed to more than 1,000. He was a scriptwriter for the “Lindenstrasse” series for 20 years. Michael Meisheit is one of those, a self publisher. An increasing number of authors are now deciding against publishing and publishing themselves – by the end of 2017, 1⁄3 of first editions had already been published by the authors themselves.
