Self-Publishing: You Want Me to Spend HOW MUCH MONEY????
Fact: it cost money to self-publish a book. Fact: It’s your money. Fact: You will even spend money when you traditionally publish that book. Bearing these three facts in mind, many people who are new to self-publishing tend to ask…
Editors Are The Reason YOU Make Money
What would you be without your editor? Where would you be without a professional editor? I’ll give you places where I’ve been: 1) Frustrated: I don’t know what I’ve done wrong but there is something wrong. My editor finds it.…
Is Publishing A Book A Worthy Goal?
You have been writing that work in progress for months or even years, you’ve been saying that this year will be the year. Except you find every excuse in the book not to publish a book. The idea is that…
The Art of Publishing
The art of publishing is more than just writing and being able to say that you have a work in progress. It is about the artist in you growing and developing and becoming more than what you once were.…
When Publishing Becomes Too Hard
This is a note I received a while ago when I wanted to stop writing, and simply wanted to give up. It was about the lowest point I had as a writer. Although my book is still months, possibly years…
The Publishing Your Book Dilemma
You want to publish your book and you have worked long and hard to bring it this far. You have edited the first draft yourself, and you have had others review and comment on it before submitting it to a…
Writing, Publishing, Making Money and Google
Some writers love to complain — not so much about how great someone else’s book is when our own should be just as good, but we complain that editing takes too long or that our blog isn’t drawing the number…
What Google Means For Your Writing
As modern writers we live in two different worlds: the online world and the offline world. We have to live in both to have success in our writing. We also face some harsh critiques if we want to sell our…