Self Publishing is all about being stubborn… why?
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As a self
publisher you’ve likely already come up against some sort of barrier in
traditional publishing: not securing an agent, not finding a publisher to
publish your work, or simply decided not to send any more work out to squelch
about in a slush pile.
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Finding out that
writing the story is not the end of the process, there are more skills to
learn: editing, formatting, illustrating and making all of this stick into a
memory stick to send to a printer.
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Then there’s the
promotions and marketing, and generally getting the word out there, about the
amazing new book that you now have to sell.
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There are
websites, and blogs and a whole host of ways to get a book noticed online.
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And pretty soon
you realise that writing the book is just the beginning, and learning curves
keep hitting you, sharper and steeper than you thought possible. The sense of
achievement at rising to each new challenge is amazing, but also exhausting.
So what keeps a self
publisher going? Sheer stubbornness and an unshakable belief in the book or
books, that have to find their way out of the boxes and into the hands of
readers…
So that’s where I’m at,
feeling exhausted but stubbornly carrying on…
