There are two main expenses for self-publishing—covers (about which, more later) and editing. Of the two, beginning writers are more likely to spend on the former than the latter. They’re making a big mistake. I come to this conclusion from a somewhat unique perspective—I was a freelance copy editor myself for several years. At one […]
There are several steps in self-publishing, but there’s a first one that’s absolutely fundamental. Write the book. It’s easy to be overwhelmed by all the other things that are involved in publishing, but without a book you’ve got nowhere to go. Fortunately, in this case I had a completed MS. In fact that MS had […]
Last year at this time I was a happy camper. The first book in the Salt Box Trilogy, Finding Mr. Right Now, had just been published. The second, Love In the Morning, had a publication date, and the third, Running On Empty, had been contracted. My first books set in Colorado had become a reality. […]
