tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41465299971808368112024-01-13T09:46:10.906-08:00BOOK PUBLISHING SECRETS: HOW TO PUBLISH YOUR BOOK!Authors' candid tales into the land of publication...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger274125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-57106038501196236472023-06-07T21:00:00.001-07:002023-06-07T21:00:00.138-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with W.L. Brooks #books #bookpublishing<p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxElNDjU7ciJP828S2Ida5gm_QRfKCOD-Y1TMcXoE1VvNlOdqGktnks3itbU3Iawhwan73xPccg1RBApCYPHQHawFYvrOZXprJxPwG1wE9tWBj2vwGiqVd78Suptb-g15bnH_i-Z__rfaubjfbQ_nMlKZhMxDPRq-SQbOQ36YVbeh0q1esUlRJ0gab/s266/W.L.%20Brooks%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="200" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxElNDjU7ciJP828S2Ida5gm_QRfKCOD-Y1TMcXoE1VvNlOdqGktnks3itbU3Iawhwan73xPccg1RBApCYPHQHawFYvrOZXprJxPwG1wE9tWBj2vwGiqVd78Suptb-g15bnH_i-Z__rfaubjfbQ_nMlKZhMxDPRq-SQbOQ36YVbeh0q1esUlRJ0gab/s1600/W.L.%20Brooks%20lg.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>W.L. Brooks was born with an active
imagination. When characters come into her mind, she has to give them a
life- a chance to tell their stories. With a coffee cup in her hand and
a cat by her side, she spends her days letting the ideas flow onto
paper. A voracious reader, she draws her inspiration from mystery,
romance, suspense and a dash of the paranormal.<p></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">A native of Virginia Beach, she is
currently living in Western North Carolina. Pick up her latest novel,
Unearthing the Past - available now!</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Website: <a href="http://www.wlbrooks.com/">www.wlbrooks.com</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/authorwlbrooks">http://www.facebook.com/authorwlbrooks</a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Goodreads: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16200243.W_L_Brooks">https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16200243.W_L_Brooks</a></p><p> </p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: none; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbsqUadStpLElbyqifVWvzm0oTSRXnD0wZkOnwqiTyQurs3W5JFIlNJsCW4ZM4YZiSwnSUl0KiFHlzjR5IUZXU1uTvN4n31Yb5K8m8bdww8ixmc4KebSwyNQxqLI9LINJQ--nzuXsQfglHD4EVFMBiWNy85eoS4Vva4U6snlaJIU1Z61G4qXanB2y/s750/Crossing%20a%20Fine%20Line%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIbsqUadStpLElbyqifVWvzm0oTSRXnD0wZkOnwqiTyQurs3W5JFIlNJsCW4ZM4YZiSwnSUl0KiFHlzjR5IUZXU1uTvN4n31Yb5K8m8bdww8ixmc4KebSwyNQxqLI9LINJQ--nzuXsQfglHD4EVFMBiWNy85eoS4Vva4U6snlaJIU1Z61G4qXanB2y/w426-h640/Crossing%20a%20Fine%20Line%20lg.jpg" width="426" /></a></div><br /> <br /></div><p>Fletcher J. McKay has been shot, driven insane, and tortured by a
madman, so what’s one more psycho coming after her? But this foe’s
disturbing attempts to extinguish Fletch’s light leave her shaken.
Running out of options, she must consort with the enemy.</p><p>Fletcher
is undoubtedly Sheriff Noah Reed’s nemesis. Their discord began with an
irrevocable outcome of an unforeseeable trauma, but duty demands he
keeps her safe. The closer he gets, the more his loathing turns to lust.</p><p>Devastated
by loss, Fletcher agrees to go into Noah’s protective custody. Passion
takes them across the boundaries of their animosity, but is their
tentative bond enough? Or is the line between love and hate, as with
life and death, fixed.</p>
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<p>Pre-order eBook on Amazon: <a href="https://amzn.to/3TD6x4a">https://amzn.to/3TD6x4a</a> </p>
<p>Amazon (paperback): <a href="https://amzn.to/3FJd33G">https://amzn.to/3FJd33G</a> <br /></p><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: none; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /> </a></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jvPDsqZnX46HNlvEzvTtVIY1Rx_Q-X2sMVBzmRuZ6i0JQ4n8u5DRZDIRMyO0wBzciIX6Qi9tFxwPaVJu2-63oZpDyYpukmArWpBjBPyYBh-NB8MLmcOiebmBk8qLD16B84c1uCm8L0CMdoetaPvnXTR0b-zOWxK3bx6A0wQQHzAIrbdChX8Xd2sb/s640/book.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jvPDsqZnX46HNlvEzvTtVIY1Rx_Q-X2sMVBzmRuZ6i0JQ4n8u5DRZDIRMyO0wBzciIX6Qi9tFxwPaVJu2-63oZpDyYpukmArWpBjBPyYBh-NB8MLmcOiebmBk8qLD16B84c1uCm8L0CMdoetaPvnXTR0b-zOWxK3bx6A0wQQHzAIrbdChX8Xd2sb/w560-h315/book.jpg" width="560" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span>Thank
you for your time in answering our questions about getting published.
Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an
author and pen this book?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">W.L.: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">From as
early as I can remember, I've been a storyteller. This book is the fifth
and final book in a romantic suspense series I've been working on for
twenty years.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span>Is this your first book?</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">W.L.: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">No, this will be my sixth full-length novel. <br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">W.L.: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">I've been lucky enough to have my entire series published with The Wild Rose Press. <br /></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">W.L.:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">I've
been doing this for several years, and the industry has changed so much
since I started. So much of this business is marketing. The days of
having anonymity as a writer seem to have passed, which is difficult for
those of us who are introverted, but we try. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">W.L.:</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">You have to do what's right for you, no matter what is trending. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">W.L.: </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Again, you have to do what's right for you. Everyone is different. <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><b>What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">W.L.: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">You've got this- just one sentence at a time.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: none; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></h3></div><p>
</p><p> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-19915514427575931012023-03-21T05:56:00.000-07:002023-03-27T07:32:04.927-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Deven Greene #books #bookpublishing<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_xIt4a8LonKtHHzL3BJPFctubF7SEXxq3Ij9xeCrAqJIWtMN9OStYhfqGFPy0otY6Bh_bi_cQylhSG06X7bMo39VZQXOmprlQv4pPIwfe2qiXOFp37YUxM8SfZyr0TehKU9hC3uMgmhMatT0j_U-R4hamNR63PUelzXkJ2xyDu4EEiZBsWL5Eqser/s249/Deven%20Greene.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="249" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_xIt4a8LonKtHHzL3BJPFctubF7SEXxq3Ij9xeCrAqJIWtMN9OStYhfqGFPy0otY6Bh_bi_cQylhSG06X7bMo39VZQXOmprlQv4pPIwfe2qiXOFp37YUxM8SfZyr0TehKU9hC3uMgmhMatT0j_U-R4hamNR63PUelzXkJ2xyDu4EEiZBsWL5Eqser/s1600/Deven%20Greene.png" width="249" /></a></div>Fiction writer <a href="https://www.devengreene.com"><b>Deven Greene</b></a>
lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Ever since childhood, Deven has
been interested in science. After receiving a doctorate in
biochemistry, she went to medical school and trained as a pathologist.
She worked for several decades in that field before starting to write
fiction. Deven incorporates elements of medicine or science in most of
her writing. She has published several short stories. Her debut novel, <a href="https://amzn.to/3wv8hlN"><b><i>Unnatural</i></b></a>, is the first book of the Erica Rosen MD Trilogy, and was released in January 2021. <a href="https://amzn.to/3qe4zJP"><b><i>Unwitting</i></b></a><i>, </i>released in October 2021<i>, </i>is the second Erica Rosen MD novel. <a href="https://amzn.to/3Tp8u3J"><b><i>Unforeseen</i></b></a> is the final book in the Trilogy.<p></p>
<span style="font-family: 'Cherry Swash'; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;">Visit her website at <a href="http://www.devengreene.com">www.devengreene.com</a> or connect with her on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/DGreeneauthor"><b>Twitter</b></a> and <a href="http://www.instagram.com/devengreeneauthor"><b>Instagram</b></a>.</span></span></span><p> </p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: none; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgje8l1nz12So8hcJyWEaNN-xcW5l_YTcBV9TUgWLjG9g8VshVgn_k5qv4RSTGToRefppuXHu62itKjr53JUaaivf7bKNgKTZt2apQPFfXX5Fy05oTxyF4vAIHMUdEQ8IZIlUCfUuNgcNjrWnL3h6moXweGCXLIIs6xOUmBvD3mHTqlXVTKoej6d6rn/s640/Erica%20Rosen%20MD%20Trilogy%208.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgje8l1nz12So8hcJyWEaNN-xcW5l_YTcBV9TUgWLjG9g8VshVgn_k5qv4RSTGToRefppuXHu62itKjr53JUaaivf7bKNgKTZt2apQPFfXX5Fy05oTxyF4vAIHMUdEQ8IZIlUCfUuNgcNjrWnL3h6moXweGCXLIIs6xOUmBvD3mHTqlXVTKoej6d6rn/w526-h395/Erica%20Rosen%20MD%20Trilogy%208.jpg" width="526" /></a></div><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;">Pediatrician
Erica Rosen is stymied when two of her patients don’t respond to
medicine as expected. When other patients later develop strange,
unexpected illnesses, she is determined to get to the bottom of it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;">Meanwhile,
the department’s newest pediatrician, Dr. Nilsen, appears to be trying
to steal her patients. Erica suspects he is after her job as the clinic
director. She also discovers Dr. Nilsen has become romantically involved
with her trusted assistant, Martha. One evening, while looking for
patient information on Martha’s desk, Erica comes across a list with the
names of some of her patients. A boy who recently became ill with a
mysterious malady is on the list and has an asterisk by his name. What
does that mean?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;">Erica is
convinced something nefarious is underfoot, and Dr. Nilsen, rather than
simply being after her job, is engaged in a dangerous scheme involving
her patients. Unable to recruit the help of law enforcement in a timely
manner, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands. As she
proceeds with her investigation, she is unaware of the dangers she is
about to encounter. </span></p>
<h2><b>Book Information</b></h2>
<p><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Release Date: August 18, 2022</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Publisher: Black Rose Writing</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Soft Cover: 329 pages; $21.95; eBook $6.99; FREE on Kindle Unlimited</b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Amazon: </b><a href="https://amzn.to/3Tp8u3J"><b>https://amzn.to/3Tp8u3J</b></a><b> </b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Black Rose Writing:</b></span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.blackrosewriting.com/thrillers/unforeseen?rq=deven%20greene"><b><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;">https://www.blackrosewriting.com/thrillers/unforeseen?rq=deven%20greene</span></b></a></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: none; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /> </a></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jvPDsqZnX46HNlvEzvTtVIY1Rx_Q-X2sMVBzmRuZ6i0JQ4n8u5DRZDIRMyO0wBzciIX6Qi9tFxwPaVJu2-63oZpDyYpukmArWpBjBPyYBh-NB8MLmcOiebmBk8qLD16B84c1uCm8L0CMdoetaPvnXTR0b-zOWxK3bx6A0wQQHzAIrbdChX8Xd2sb/s640/book.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jvPDsqZnX46HNlvEzvTtVIY1Rx_Q-X2sMVBzmRuZ6i0JQ4n8u5DRZDIRMyO0wBzciIX6Qi9tFxwPaVJu2-63oZpDyYpukmArWpBjBPyYBh-NB8MLmcOiebmBk8qLD16B84c1uCm8L0CMdoetaPvnXTR0b-zOWxK3bx6A0wQQHzAIrbdChX8Xd2sb/w560-h315/book.jpg" width="560" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span>Thank
you for your time in answering our questions about getting published.
Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an
author and pen this book?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Deven: I’ve wanted to become an author for some time. I finally decided to stop thinking about it and DO something about ten years ago. The first novel I wrote remains unpublished. I like the story and will probably publish it in the future. However, being my first novel, it needed some rewriting. I became tired of working on it and looked forward to starting a new project, the Erica Rosen MD Trilogy. Book 1 of the trilogy, Unnatural, is the first book I published. It is about human embryonic stem cell gene editing, a topic I find fascinating. It has the potential to do a lot of good but also could be very harmful if not done ethically.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span>Is this your first book?</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Deven: The first book of the trilogy is the first book I published, but the second novel I’ve written (see the previous question)..<span id="docs-internal-guid-89fd4875-7fff-18b0-3b15-d53a0fca41ce"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Deven: The whole trilogy is published by a small, independent publisher. Of course, I would have loved the novels to be picked up by a large, traditional publisher, but that wasn’t in the cards. I tried to make that happen but was unsuccessful. I didn’t want to self-publish, so I went with a small publisher. I used the same publisher for all the books in the trilogy, so the format and cover styles would be the same.</span> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Deven: I attempted to get an agent, but after failing to land one and being put off by their rudeness (lack of responses and failure to follow up after asking for additional material), I decided not to pursue that further. I didn’t want to self-publish, so I looked for a publisher who accepted queries directly from authors. That was the best path for me, although I know many authors are happy being self-published.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Deven: It is necessary to learn as much as possible about the publishing industry before embarking on the publication journey. If your preferred method doesn’t work out after a while, try something else. Publicity is more important for sales than the method of publication. Unless you are a favored author of a large publisher, you will need to budget some money to publicize your work.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Deven: I am glad I went with a small publisher rather than self-publishing, but this may not be the best route for everyone. Although there are a lot of small publishers, it is still difficult to be picked up by one, and many, like agents, don’t respond to queries.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><b>What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Deven: If writing is what you want to do, keep doing it. Don’t give up because some people don’t appreciate your work. Write what you want to write, and try to find the right readers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: none; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></h3></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-85834674601319878872023-01-04T21:00:00.002-08:002023-01-05T06:54:03.347-08:00Book Publishing Secrets with Richard I. Levine #books #bookpublishing<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhN1ksqfKtQB6n2D7Kku7bRYBm5YKDl1roi87Hif-x47BATt0JeBwOTw_wYgP9XFrMVL9X96YoYidd3FRKulgCbNeTaKqujSeFFJ8zb7LmUzULTt_kLneEARnUKfarZutktD5sdbArRG-wl3Mwl1l4rBGyrnK-7YaSW5_d65-mY9eEyl4JXeecXGV/s510/Richard%20Levine%202.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="510" data-original-width="408" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhN1ksqfKtQB6n2D7Kku7bRYBm5YKDl1roi87Hif-x47BATt0JeBwOTw_wYgP9XFrMVL9X96YoYidd3FRKulgCbNeTaKqujSeFFJ8zb7LmUzULTt_kLneEARnUKfarZutktD5sdbArRG-wl3Mwl1l4rBGyrnK-7YaSW5_d65-mY9eEyl4JXeecXGV/s320/Richard%20Levine%202.jpg" width="256" /></a></div>Richard I Levine is a native New
Yorker raised in the shadows of Yankee Stadium. After dabbling in
several occupations and a one-year coast to coast wanderlust trip, this
one-time volunteer fireman, bartender, and store manager returned to
school to become a chiropractor. A twenty-three-year cancer survivor,
he’s a strong advocate for the natural healing arts. Levine has four
Indy-published novels and his fifth work, To Catch The Setting Sun, is
published by The Wild Rose Press and was released in August 2022. In
2006 he wrote, produced and was on-air personality of the Dr. Rich
Levine show on Seattle’s KKNW 1150AM and after a twenty-five year
practice in Bellevue, Washington, he closed up shop in 2017 and moved to
Oahu to pursue a dream of acting and being on Hawaii 5-O. While briefly
working as a ghostwriter/community liaison for a local Honolulu City
Councilmember, he appeared as a background actor in over twenty-five
5-Os and Magnum P.Is. Richard can be seen in his first co-star role in
the Magnum P.I. third season episode “Easy Money”. He presently resides
in Hawaii.<p></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Visit Richard’s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Richard-I-Levine/e/B00CLHB0LI/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">Amazon Page</a> or connect with him on <a href="http://www.twitter.com/Your_In8_Power">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/RichardLevineAuthor">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.instagram.com/rlevinedc">Instagram</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5752961.Richard_I_Levine">Goodreads</a>.</span></p><p> </p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: none; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmCwRvIivh3RU74BIbNGmM4bZ6INPuWs5X-uwwMJSuaiD80OYT153My5PrnxYO6Q3mtwRPy-JewDat8w_UxlgAFnb1QblBi5lj3Prhs_RiDyhRdHrBiJEKMFxkiquYqXZab03Fx_umQVCl1TgmBVdvBxAuNjqt-FRY2ocCj3w0IpEOVRllbP8Zuuu/s605/To%20Catch%20the%20Setting%20Sun%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="376" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikmCwRvIivh3RU74BIbNGmM4bZ6INPuWs5X-uwwMJSuaiD80OYT153My5PrnxYO6Q3mtwRPy-JewDat8w_UxlgAFnb1QblBi5lj3Prhs_RiDyhRdHrBiJEKMFxkiquYqXZab03Fx_umQVCl1TgmBVdvBxAuNjqt-FRY2ocCj3w0IpEOVRllbP8Zuuu/w398-h640/To%20Catch%20the%20Setting%20Sun%202.jpg" width="398" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Cherry Swash; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There’s a killer loose on the island
of Oahu. His targets? Young, native-Hawaiian women. But it also appears
that he’s targeting and taunting Honolulu police detective Henry
Benjamin who knew each victim and whose wife, Maya, had been the first
name on that list. In addition to battling his personal demons, this New
York transplant’s aggressive style didn’t sit well with his laid-back
colleagues who viewed Henry’s uncharacteristic lack of progress in the
investigation as evidence that fueled ongoing rumors that he could be
the killer. Was he, or could it have been someone within the municipal
hierarchy with a vendetta? As it was, after thirteen years on the job
Henry had been disillusioned with paradise. His career choice long
killed any fantasy of living in a grass hut on a wind-swept beach, being
serenaded by the lazy sounds of the ocean and a slack key guitar.
Instead, it had opened his eyes to a Hawaii that tourists will never
see.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Release Date: August 22, 2022</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Publisher: The Wild Rose Press</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Soft Cover: ISBN: 978-1509243297; 320 pages; $17.99; eBook $5.99</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Amazon: <a href="https://amzn.to/3Rl42Aw">https://amzn.to/3Rl42Aw</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Barnes and Noble: <a href="https://bit.ly/3BRB0mv">https://bit.ly/3BRB0mv</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Apple iBooks: <a href="https://apple.co/3dVBaBj">https://apple.co/3dVBaBj</a></span></p><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: none; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /> </a></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jvPDsqZnX46HNlvEzvTtVIY1Rx_Q-X2sMVBzmRuZ6i0JQ4n8u5DRZDIRMyO0wBzciIX6Qi9tFxwPaVJu2-63oZpDyYpukmArWpBjBPyYBh-NB8MLmcOiebmBk8qLD16B84c1uCm8L0CMdoetaPvnXTR0b-zOWxK3bx6A0wQQHzAIrbdChX8Xd2sb/s640/book.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jvPDsqZnX46HNlvEzvTtVIY1Rx_Q-X2sMVBzmRuZ6i0JQ4n8u5DRZDIRMyO0wBzciIX6Qi9tFxwPaVJu2-63oZpDyYpukmArWpBjBPyYBh-NB8MLmcOiebmBk8qLD16B84c1uCm8L0CMdoetaPvnXTR0b-zOWxK3bx6A0wQQHzAIrbdChX8Xd2sb/w560-h315/book.jpg" width="560" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span>Thank
you for your time in answering our questions about getting published.
Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an
author and pen this book?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Richard: I do not remember ever making a conscious decision to become an author, but I can say with certainty that I have always found it easier to express my thoughts and feelings through writing. For me, <i>To Catch The Setting Sun, </i>as with my other books, is one vehicle I use to express myself; it is my voice. It is my method of communicating a message in an entertaining way without being interrupted or shouted down—something that has become all-too-common in our society today.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"></span><p style="font-size: 16px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span>Is this your first book?</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Richard: This novel is my fifth. My first four are a series which follows an ordinary guy, Ray Silver, who is drawn into extraordinary situations which finds him risking life and limb to protect his family and his way of life. He is the antithesis of the typically Hollywood action hero who ends up doing heroic things when necessary. Those four novels are Indy-published and can be found on Amazon in paperback and ebook.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Richard: <i>To Catch The Setting Sun</i> is published by The Wild Rose Press. I suppose they are considered small press. You would have to ask them. As with my first four novels, I was going to Indy-publish this book, but after incurring some financial setbacks during the COVID lockdowns, which included $30,000 dollars in unexpected medical expenses, I found the associated costs to go Indy were a little out of reach for me. I began to query literary agents with no success and that’s when an author friend, who I consider my literary mentor, recommended I query a publisher she used for a few of her many romance novels. I did, and the rest is history.</span> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Richard: You’ll have to forgive me for not really answering this one at this time. I’m still trying to assess it all and I’m waiting to see how this particular journey plays out before I can comment with honesty and clarity. I’m not suggesting anything bad with the choice of going small press, I’m simply waiting until I have a 360 degree view..</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Richard: As with the previous question, I feel the lessons are still occurring. I wouldn’t want to come to any premature conclusions until I’m in a position to take a step back and do a full analysis.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Richard: As with anything in life, a person has to explore, research, and analyze every option that is available to her or him and then make an informed decision based upon individual wants, needs, and desires. What may be the right path for one person may be the wrong path for someone else.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><b>What’s next for you?</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Richard: In addition to writing, I have been working on my acting skills. In 2020 I co-starred in a third season episode of Magnum PI and I definitely want to explore that world in greater depth. So, while I work on novel number six, I am simultaneously enrolled in an actor’s workshop where I am training with a group of dedicated actors on a regular basis. </span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: none; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></h3></div><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-61707321363708287832022-08-21T21:00:00.000-07:002022-08-21T21:00:00.161-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Steve Brock #books #bookpublishing<p> </p><div>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcRJA5V0Q-h-QdB53ctflLNymmQ9ShIuBETl58WuZNfkGrf3agJx-Etrm8_wFrirfpkjvmz9IUfFUBJFtw9suh7DtIF3gdWX4fEBuinLO5axZbjVh-P_3xccLflp5ZOe5mR4QTT3NFhH_NOmEvbDwqe0IhAC2LQPjCwru7tYC3I9HUVp64IM7ybwvH/s400/Steve%20Brock.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcRJA5V0Q-h-QdB53ctflLNymmQ9ShIuBETl58WuZNfkGrf3agJx-Etrm8_wFrirfpkjvmz9IUfFUBJFtw9suh7DtIF3gdWX4fEBuinLO5axZbjVh-P_3xccLflp5ZOe5mR4QTT3NFhH_NOmEvbDwqe0IhAC2LQPjCwru7tYC3I9HUVp64IM7ybwvH/s320/Steve%20Brock.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ve been an author in search of a
novel for just about forty years now. Writing was the first thing I ever
wanted to do seriously. Over the years I’ve done quite a variety of
things. My first real job, the kind where you have a schedule and get
paid hourly, was as a cook at the local Sonic Drive-In. I’ve been a
machinist, a forklift driver, a production worker, a computer
programmer, an IT guy, an installation manager, a software trainer, and
an education department manager. Those are just the employment
highlights. Through it all, I was a husband and father, and I attended
college at night to get my bachelor’s degree in technology management.</span><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Before all that started, I wanted to
be a writer. It just didn’t work out that way. Maybe that’s ok, I’ve had
a good life and I have a wonderful family that I am proud to have. I
don’t regret any of what I’ve done to support my family over the years.
The desire to write has persisted, however, and I took a look at my
odometer one day and it read 61 years old. None of us know how high our
personal odometer will go, but I knew if I was ever going to be a
writer, now was the time.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>I’m bringing my lifetime of experience
to my novel writing. Many of my characters are loosely based upon
people I’ve known in real life. Some of my plot elements are also
influenced by real-life experiences as well. As of this writing, my
first novel, Half Moon Lake, will be published on Amazon in a few weeks.
I have begun work on my second book as well. I hope you will take time
to register your email address so I may keep you apprised of
announcements and special offers. I’d be thrilled to count you as one of
my first dedicated readers.</span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Steve Brock’s latest novel is <strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3knaPfd">Half Moon Lake.</a></em></strong></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>You can visit his website at <a href="http://www.BrockNovels.com">www.BrockNovels.com</a> or connect with him at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/brocknovelist">Twitter</a>.</span></span></p>
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with a bright future. Only in his junior year at Texas Christian
University, his skills as a wide receiver had already captured the
attention of NFL scouts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then a tragedy cost him his family and
his desire to play football. Personally devastated, he left his old
life behind and got as far from Ft. Worth, TX, and football as he could
get.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Keeping mostly to himself, he became a
float-plane pilot in the far north of Minnesota. Flying fisherman and
hunters into remote locations was how he spent his time. When a group he
had flown to Roudy’s Cabin goes missing, he faces accusations and more
turmoil than he could have ever imagined. To make matters worse, his
quiet existence is upturned by an element from his past bent on
vengeance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><em><a href="https://amzn.to/3knaPfd">Half Moon Lake</a></em></strong> is Steve Brock’s first novel. A suspenseful mystery written with likable characters and a lighthearted flavor.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><u>Book Information</u></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Release Date:</strong> March 30, 2022</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Publisher:</strong> Steve Brock</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Soft Cover:</strong> ISBN: 978-0578391977; 187 pages; $9.99; Kindle Unlimited FREE</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong>Amazon: </strong><a href="https://amzn.to/3knaPfd">https://amzn.to/3knaPfd</a></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /> </a></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jvPDsqZnX46HNlvEzvTtVIY1Rx_Q-X2sMVBzmRuZ6i0JQ4n8u5DRZDIRMyO0wBzciIX6Qi9tFxwPaVJu2-63oZpDyYpukmArWpBjBPyYBh-NB8MLmcOiebmBk8qLD16B84c1uCm8L0CMdoetaPvnXTR0b-zOWxK3bx6A0wQQHzAIrbdChX8Xd2sb/s640/book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3jvPDsqZnX46HNlvEzvTtVIY1Rx_Q-X2sMVBzmRuZ6i0JQ4n8u5DRZDIRMyO0wBzciIX6Qi9tFxwPaVJu2-63oZpDyYpukmArWpBjBPyYBh-NB8MLmcOiebmBk8qLD16B84c1uCm8L0CMdoetaPvnXTR0b-zOWxK3bx6A0wQQHzAIrbdChX8Xd2sb/w560-h315/book.jpg" width="560" /></a></span></div><p></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span>Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steve: Writing is something I intended to do even back in high school.
Life had other plans for me and it has taken me forty years to come to a
place in life where I could fulfill that dream.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><p style="font-size: 16px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span>Is this your first book?</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steve: Yes, it is.<span id="docs-internal-guid-89fd4875-7fff-18b0-3b15-d53a0fca41ce"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steve: I independently published. I didn’t pursue traditional
publishing. After seeking out advice from some authors that have long
resumes, I learned there are a lot of negative aspects to traditional
publishing that can be avoided by publishing independently.</span> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steve: It was mostly positive. As I said, I sought out help from
experienced authors, and that helped me in a lot of ways. As for the
pros and cons, the most positive thing about publishing yourself is you
can set your own pace and you don’t have anyone else’s deadlines to
meet. On the down side, you are completely on your own, and if this is
your first publishing experience there are a lot of lessons to be
learned. Things like finding a professional editor and a professional
book cover designer are issues I didn’t think about before I started
down this road.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steve: Publishing on your own puts everything on your shoulders. Finding
all the assistance you will need to prepare your book for publication,
learning the steps involved in getting your book published are just two
of the things a new author must deal with. In addition to that, after
publication, all the marketing has to be done as well. With an average
of 450 books being published every day, it isn’t easy to draw attention
to yours.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span>Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steve: It’s hard to say without having anything else to compare it to. I
know publishing has been changing the last few years. The days of the
large publishing companies deciding which books are published are over.
Virtually anyone can publish a book if they are willing to put in the
work. Before I started writing if I had been given the option of
traditional publishing I’m sure I would have taken it. If for no other
reason than to have someone to guide me through the process the first
time. </span><br /></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><b>What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Steve: Find a mentor, someone who has experience in some aspect of book
writing or publishing. Once you get going, most things you will learn as
you go, but having someone to bounce ideas off of is really valuable.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></h3></div><p>
</p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-91092463048794934542022-08-07T21:00:00.002-07:002022-08-07T21:00:00.179-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Jeanette Baker #books #bookpublishing<p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.jeanettebaker.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></strong></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgne40iQn11zNQlDZzLTZowa3xiIgG7H7FpNQQE892tWOjsCerXRGwJvhi6jtY9BU9-hcffpntYWZ7kQIyYOrRd85huf50pTA6N6wtRaDcQCwUZeZ1wRyMUvNMZQcX8ClQAo0AK3SpvhmKmlG8CRQNjxD9cTqyhIazOmqNzFjiwZT5NLS2JniIKGbSH/s648/Jeanette%20Baker%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="463" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgne40iQn11zNQlDZzLTZowa3xiIgG7H7FpNQQE892tWOjsCerXRGwJvhi6jtY9BU9-hcffpntYWZ7kQIyYOrRd85huf50pTA6N6wtRaDcQCwUZeZ1wRyMUvNMZQcX8ClQAo0AK3SpvhmKmlG8CRQNjxD9cTqyhIazOmqNzFjiwZT5NLS2JniIKGbSH/s320/Jeanette%20Baker%202.jpg" width="229" /></a></strong></div><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jeanette Baker</strong><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> is the award-winning author of twenty paranormal, historical and contemporary novels, most of them set in the lush countryside of Southwest Ireland where she lives with her husband and writes during the “Seasons of Silence,” the autumn and winter months. Her ancestors, the O’Flahertys, hail from the counties of Kerry and Galway. She takes great pride in the prayer posted by the English over the ancient city gates, “From the wrath of the O’Flahertys, may the good Lord deliver us.”</span><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Jeanette spent many years teaching 6</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">th</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> grade in a small school nestled under a canopy of Eucalyptus trees where the children consistently surprised her with their wisdom, their hopefulness and their enthusiasm for great stories. Currently, she enjoys the company of her own grown children and her precious grandchildren.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Jeanette graduated from the University of California at Irvine and holds a Master’s Degree in Education.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">She is the Rita award-winning author of </span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">NELL</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Her latest book is the women’s fiction, </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HJjpzA" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Birthright</i></a></strong><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">You can visit her website at </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.jeanettebaker.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">www.JeanetteBaker.com</a></strong> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> or connect with her on </span><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/jeanette.baker.77" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a></strong><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; 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font-size: 14pt;">Two women on a course to confront the past, one to expose its secrets, the other to bury them. </span></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Claire Williams travels halfway across the globe from Southern California to Ireland to find the mother who gave her up and the questions that need answering. Norah O’Connor is equally determined to avoid revisiting the most shameful time of her life and the devastating decisions she was forced to make.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Claire’s presence fifty years later is the engine for the confrontations to come when neighbors Norah has known forever recognize Claire’s resemblance to a younger sister. Norah must face the man who fathered both her daughters, and decide to either hold the secrets that continue to embitter her or release them for the shame that will surely mark her.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Jeanette Baker’s award winning novels have earned her a place in the paranormal genre beside giants such as Barbara Erskine and Kristin Hannah. Now she brings her unique writing style and compelling characters to the stage of contemporary Ireland, sharing a world as alluring as its secrets are opaque.”</span></i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</span>Lauren Royal, New York Times and USA Bestselling Author.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Gorgeously descriptive and unforgettably moving, Baker’s novel is a wondrous journey of the heart.” </i></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">—Candi Sary, author of <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Magdalena</i> </span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</i><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Birthright</span><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> will find a welcome place in any library strong in stories of mother/daughter relationships, Irish culture, and the special conundrums faced by adult children who seek answers to the decisions their birth parents made.”</span></i></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">—</i>Diane Donovan, Sr. Reviewer<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">, Midwest Book Review</i></span></p><h2 style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d3e50; font-family: Charmonman; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14pt;">Book Information</span></h2><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Release Date: June 21, 2022</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Publisher: Top Reads Publishing LLC</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Soft Cover: ISBN: 978-1970107296; 254 pages; $16.99; eBook $4.99</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Amazon: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3HJjpzA" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://amzn.to/3HJjpzA</a></strong> </span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Barnes & Noble: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3tTpSlU" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://bit.ly/3tTpSlU</a></strong> </span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></span></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeanette</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I’ve always loved to read and to write stories. Every summer my parents would take us on a road trip from California to Boston, MA to visit our relatives. Those were days without air-conditioning and all vinyl seats that would stick to our legs and backs. I’ll never forget driving to Oklahoma which has to be the hottest most humid state in America. My respite would be to look out the window and create a story in my mind. Those stories saved me on our heated trips but they also served another purpose. I was actually quite good at story-telling and my grades in English, creative writing and history were outstanding. My mother was quite concerned about my lack of interest in chemistry and biology because those were real subjects according to her. However, she was incredibly proud when my first book was accepted for publication.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><p style="font-size: 16px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Is this your first book?</span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-89fd4875-7fff-18b0-3b15-d53a0fca41ce"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Jeanette</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">: </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is my twentieth book.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bffacb43-7fff-7abf-8faa-0332d8b28884"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeanette:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Another author recommended hybrid publishing, and that’s when I found Top Reads Publishing—an indie, boutique hybrid publisher.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeanette:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">I started out writing paranormals, time-travel type novels with Pocket Books. Then, after a while, I wanted to branch out. I began writing Irish contemporaries and American contemporaries for Mira Books. Large publishing houses were going out of business at the time, so I took a breather and tried self-publishing. I’m not well-versed in promotion, so that didn’t work for me. That’s when I was introduced to Teri Rider at Top Reads, and here I am.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeanette:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publishing is not for everyone. Authors who are readers first have a much better chance of success in publishing their novels than those who aren’t. It’s important for those contemplating publishing as a career to read books in the genres they would like to write. Computer aptitude is also essential.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bree Serif"; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeanette: </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes.</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?</span><o:p style="font-size: 16px;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e5f3b008-7fff-33c0-1a02-b2dd9b8e0cd0"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeanette:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Attend conferences, read genres of interest, keep your day job, and join writing groups.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;">
<!--/wp:paragraph--></div></div></div></h3></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-45973272118039438202022-08-07T21:00:00.001-07:002022-08-07T21:00:00.178-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Palmer Pickering #books #bookpublishing<p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.mythologypress.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></strong></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvUfwyp8KxQsgJwmwxA3mvJ0XF-cpnxKC9xxF0otSo68gibqqiX8DZPU6CNo17jcyCo_7LAuJKGGQMElAhYui4wKf68fNkbXB5REsfjrf0rmeq89wMz4yaGrMu1gMKqqplgC8RI1yL2uJRmbv8RtG6ZDAeTZV56-RYrfIayjahBV07dVVmKNyQ71oG/s1024/Palmer%20Pickering%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="1024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvUfwyp8KxQsgJwmwxA3mvJ0XF-cpnxKC9xxF0otSo68gibqqiX8DZPU6CNo17jcyCo_7LAuJKGGQMElAhYui4wKf68fNkbXB5REsfjrf0rmeq89wMz4yaGrMu1gMKqqplgC8RI1yL2uJRmbv8RtG6ZDAeTZV56-RYrfIayjahBV07dVVmKNyQ71oG/s320/Palmer%20Pickering%20lg.jpg" width="320" /></a></strong></div><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Palmer Pickering</strong> has been writing fiction since she was eight. She received her BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University, with concentrations in Religion and Race Relations.<p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">She currently works in Silicon Valley in the gaming industry and high tech. In addition, Palmer holds a certificate in Chinese Acupressure, is a certified solar panel installer, and studied Tibetan Buddhism with the 14th Dalai Lama.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">She lives and writes in the magical redwood forest of the Santa Cruz Mountains, California.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Her latest book is the scifi fantasy for adults, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3uKWq2o" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Moon Deeds: Star Children Saga Book One.</a></em></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">You can visit her website at <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.mythologypress.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">www.MythologyPress.com</a></strong> or connect with her on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://twitter.com/PalmerPickerin1" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a></strong>, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/MythologyPress" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a></strong>,<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lioncutcat/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Instagram</a></strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/redwoodforest/fantasy-inspirations/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Pinterest</a></strong>.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; 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color: #2d3e50; font-family: Charmonman; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14pt;">“The path to power is cloaked in shadows, so if you avoid all the shadows, you’ll never learn anything.”</span></h4><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">It’s 2090: the last outpost of freedom is the moon, the best defense against technology is magic, and the only hope for humankind rests in the hands of the Star Children.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Twins Cassidy and Torr must save Earth from a ruthless enemy at a time when the only force more powerful than alien technology is magic. Moon Deeds launches the siblings’ journey across the galaxy, where they must learn their power as the Star Children, claim their shamanic heritage, and battle dark forces that threaten humankind.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">The Star Children Saga follows Cassidy and Torr as they slowly awaken to their destiny as the twin Star Children, born every millennium to reconnect with the source of all life. They come to discover the sheer enormity of their task: to find our ancestors on a lost planet across the galaxy and save humanity from a spiraling descent into darkness. The powers they must wield to accomplish this task are truly frightening and put at risk everything they love.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Come along with twenty-year-old twins Cassidy and Torr, who inherited deeds to land parcels on the moon. They want to use their moon deeds to get off Earth and escape a brutal dictatorship. But first they must unlock their shaman powers.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">A rollicking yet poignant adventure in the not too distant future, when we have colonized the moon and nearly lost Earth to a dictatorship. Only the shamans remain free, plus the lucky ones who escaped to the moon.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Join the adventure! An addictive space opera, science-fantasy series.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“This is a marvelous book. The characters are compelling, complex, and emotional. The future described is neither all evil nor all good, and it’s described so realistically that I can still feel the moon dust in my nose and expect to see large packing containers around every corner. The text is delightfully written with none of the bad grammar that makes picky people like me wince even in an otherwise great story. Alas, this is just the first book of the series, and it appears I’ll have to wait a whole year for the next one. I really need to know *now* what happens next!”</em> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">– Garden Reader</strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I was totally captivated by this story. It is set just far enough into our future that I could see it all unfold. This tale has it all, mystery, magic, aliens, war, family, friendship and love. The authors ability to paint landscapes with words is amazing! I can not wait for book two to come out. I must know the fate of the Star Children!”</em> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">– VR</strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Anything dealing with the moon is almost immediately mystical and magical. Throw in a heart racing adventure and characters that will leave a mark on your heart and you have a masterpiece!”</em> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">– Taylor Johnson</strong> (Educator, Netgalley)</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“I found this novel to be as much a psychological thriller as it is a science fiction adventure, and the draw-in happens almost instantly. This is unquestionably one of the best books I’ve read this year and Pickering has roped in an entire family as new fans. I’d give Moon Deeds a whole bucket of stars if I could.”</em> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">– Asher Syed</strong> (Readers’ Favorite)</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“There is so much to love about this book, from its complex and intricately woven plot filled with tension, strife, and discovery, to the personal attachment you begin to build with the characters due to finely executed character building, engaging personalities, and difficulties in both moral dilemmas and situations. The pace is perfect to build tension, and I loved the length of this book.”</em> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">– K.J. Simmill</strong> (Readers’ Favorite)</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;">Book Information</u></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Release Date: </strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">May 25, 2019</strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Publisher:</strong> Mythology Press</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Soft Cover:</strong> ISBN: <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </strong>978-1732568808; 598 pages; $21.99; E-Book, $.99; Audiobook, FREE.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Book Trailer:</strong> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt13Js_M-P4" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt13Js_M-P4</a></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Amazon: </strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3uKWq2o" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://amzn.to/3uKWq2o</a></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: "Bree Serif"; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Barnes & Noble: </strong> <a href="https://bit.ly/3rQteFx" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://bit.ly/3rQteFx</a></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palmer: </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">I always wrote stories, ever since I was a young child. I love reading, and being an author was always my life’s goal. With Moon Deeds, I decided to write in the genre I most like to read, which is speculative fiction.</span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><p style="font-size: 16px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Is this your first book?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-89fd4875-7fff-18b0-3b15-d53a0fca41ce"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>Palmer</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">: </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">Moon Deeds is my first published book. I recently released its sequel, Light Fighters. They are the first books of the Star Children Saga, a series which will be several books long. I completed another book before Moon Deeds, but haven’t done the work to publish it. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bffacb43-7fff-7abf-8faa-0332d8b28884"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palmer:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">I self-published under my Indie imprint, Mythology Press. I decided to self-publish after many years of unsuccessfully courting agents and the traditional publishers. I have a professional background in publishing, so I understand the process, and finally just decided to do it myself. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palmer:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">The pros of self-publishing are many, especially now, and especially in genre fiction, where half of all books sold are now self-published. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">The self-publishing industry has evolved drastically in the past ten years, offering tools and communities that rival those of traditional publishers. By that I mean, authors can now desktop publish on a normal computer, no longer relying on typesetters. They can print-on-demand, avoiding the costly investment of a large print run. They can publish ebooks. Many companies and organizations support self-published authors now, from desktop publishing tools, to distribution networks, to publicists, to bloggers (like yourself), to competitions. </p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">A biggest advantage to self-publishing is the control you have over the creative process and all aspects of publishing. No one dictates what content to write or cut, what the page count must be, what cover art to use, or when and how to publish your work.</p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">On the other hand, the biggest advantages of traditional publishers are their professional editorial teams, the quality controls built into their process, their brand name, and immediate access to the big conventions and awards. Traditional publishers do large print runs, resulting in lower prices than print-on-demand. Most important of all, in my opinion, they have the ability to get printed books in brick-and-mortar bookstores, something that is nearly impossible to do for indies, aside from consignment at small bookstores. Unless you’ve already established a huge following as an indie, most bookstores simply don’t want to give up shelf space or take the risk of carrying a book that might not sell, even if you distribute via one of the big distributors and accept returns.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palmer:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">I’ve been at this for a few years now, and a recent revelation is the importance of community. There is a large network of authors, reviewers, bloggers, and avid readers who participate in online book clubs, blogs, Discord channels, Facebook groups, Twitter, Reddit, etc. I recommend joining some of these and developing relationships. Do author swaps, where you read each other’s books and support each with feedback and reviews. Do buddy reads. Engage in discussions about other books. Volunteer at conventions. Sign up to speak on panels. Be a part of the community.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Bree Serif"; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Palmer: </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">Yes, I definitely would. I’ve found self-publishing to be immensely gratifying. It sounds cliché, but it’s really all about the journey—enjoying the process of writing and editing, working with editors and artists, and supporting others on their journey.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span face=""Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e5f3b008-7fff-33c0-1a02-b2dd9b8e0cd0"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Palmer:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">For aspiring writers, you must write. Don’t think about it, or plan, or wish, just sit down and put words on paper. Every day if you can. The stories don’t have to be good, just start with anything that you find fun to write. Writing is a craft and takes a ton of practice. </span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--><!--wp:paragraph--><!--/wp:paragraph--></p><p style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">For aspiring authors (those who have finished stories but haven’t published), I recommend first hiring editors, or swapping editing and beta reading with others. (Side note: For novels, I recommend that your book is actually finished before you start querying. For unknown fiction authors, it’s very rare to get a book deal on spec.) Give the finished work to beta readers and then talk to them about their impressions, to make sure what you intended to convey actually worked. Then, when you are confident that your work is ready, try to find an agent for a couple of years (yes, years), and in that time also submit your manuscript to those who accept unsolicited works, since they often sit in a slush pile for a while. After that, if you are proud of your work and have received positive feedback from others, then try self-publishing. While all that is going on, write your next book!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></h3></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-73197372530312846032022-06-26T21:00:00.001-07:002022-06-26T21:00:00.184-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Lisa King #books #bookpublishing<p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.authorlisaking.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOA1LT0nF8TQqb05bpykk1gv3YqvNY4YhRtowRQkGfeOivWXJZy546sUvNhtuyH1ZfH1RtHGLtcvRZzVgDBv1v-Q4m8q1KBQWXhj_37E4tmHR7fV5xkOV0UnA5FG1kz0osekZT-ZOZkCS2D3mqyFiGqlM3v5r3BW81iU4Pdgeu1Bxow6PsV-Fz_Wm8/s1350/Lisa%20King%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="900" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOA1LT0nF8TQqb05bpykk1gv3YqvNY4YhRtowRQkGfeOivWXJZy546sUvNhtuyH1ZfH1RtHGLtcvRZzVgDBv1v-Q4m8q1KBQWXhj_37E4tmHR7fV5xkOV0UnA5FG1kz0osekZT-ZOZkCS2D3mqyFiGqlM3v5r3BW81iU4Pdgeu1Bxow6PsV-Fz_Wm8/s320/Lisa%20King%20lg.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;">Lisa King</span><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;"> is a Canadian fiction author and researcher whose work on veteran mental health has been published in numerous academic journals. She holds degrees in psychology and neuroscience, both from Western University. Aside from writing, she enjoys family outings, ample coffee, and unapologetic napping. She lives in London, Ontario with her husband, daughter, and wonky-eyed cat.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif;">Her latest book is the adult science fiction/psychological thriller, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3LVsZB0" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Blue Haven</a>.</strong></span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif;">You can vist her website at <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.authorlisaking.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">www.AuthorLisaKing.com</a></strong> or connect with her on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://twitter.com/kingerlisa?lang=en" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a></strong> and<a href="https://www.instagram.com/authorlisaking/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Instagram</strong></a><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">.</strong></span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT74JACyzq4qIN5CNv5DmmZQ4qp1U2JrqEqiWo-9DKFS-uMgXZGo8lfeXxyI2c3Iz2peqdA9pAnBMELMkRkw_CgQqwagfE-pb8inzBa32uxhT_VqDv8y9HUx3Q6InanCmhv-2o-DExXwV4Y8sAsQOkewL01aeWzie6mu2M_YCmOA1Ce0uk3dORSuJ9/s640/Blue%20Haven%2014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT74JACyzq4qIN5CNv5DmmZQ4qp1U2JrqEqiWo-9DKFS-uMgXZGo8lfeXxyI2c3Iz2peqdA9pAnBMELMkRkw_CgQqwagfE-pb8inzBa32uxhT_VqDv8y9HUx3Q6InanCmhv-2o-DExXwV4Y8sAsQOkewL01aeWzie6mu2M_YCmOA1Ce0uk3dORSuJ9/w640-h480/Blue%20Haven%2014.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Welcome to Blue Haven, the world’s most lucrative condo corporation—so exclusive that only five lucky residents live in this lush, tropical paradise, housed in a top-secret location.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Among them is twenty-five-year-old Aloe Malone, an introvert and former waitress who traded bussing tables for lengthy sleep-ins, ocean dips, Michelin-star restaurants, spectacular sunsets, and unlikely new friends—all thanks to a spurious lottery win.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Life’s good.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Damn good.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">That is, until Aloe discovers a journal.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Seemingly left by a past resident named Eloise whose entries are both sad and evoking, Aloe quickly suspects there’s more to Blue Haven than meets the eye.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Her suspicions are confirmed when visions arise, gruesome hallucinations she can’t understand, followed by a strange yet familiar man lurking in places he shouldn’t. Something’s wrong. Or maybe it’s all in her head. Regardless, she vows to uncover the truth.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Except someone wants to keep her quiet, and it’s the last person she ever suspected.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Blue Haven</em> is a science-fiction thriller that explores what innovation can achieve—and destroy—despite the best intentions. King’s imaginative world building and use of moral ambiguity make this page-turning novel a thought-provoking thrill that’s impossible to put down.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Book Information</span></u></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Release Date: May 31, 2022</span></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Publisher:</strong> The Story Plant</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Soft Cover:</strong> ISBN: 978-1611883206; 336 pages; $26.95; E-Book, $7.49</span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Book Trailer</strong> <a href="https://youtu.be/DgnqxcZLRcg" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://youtu.be/DgnqxcZLRcg</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Amazon: <a href="https://amzn.to/3LVsZB0" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://amzn.to/3LVsZB0</a></span></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;">Barnes & Noble: <a href="https://bit.ly/3waPpHv" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://bit.ly/3waPpHv</a> </span></strong></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Indigo:</strong> <a href="https://bit.ly/3MWRayO" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://bit.ly/3MWRayO</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">IndieBound:</strong> <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781611883206" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781611883206</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); 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font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></span></p><div style="background-color: white;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lisa</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">: Thanks for having me! I don’t think becoming an author was ever something I thoughtfully considered; more so, I’ve always loved to write, and penning a novel seemed like an enjoyable challenge. I gave it a whirl (and have kept whirling, years later). </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7338c247-7fff-9fb1-25de-a4db7a94e7a8" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Interestingly, Blue Haven was the first book I ever attempted, some thirteen-years back—which went terribly, and so began a decade-long hiatus that only recently ended when I decided to finally finish what I started, for good. </span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Is this your first book?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-89fd4875-7fff-18b0-3b15-d53a0fca41ce"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lisa<span style="font-weight: normal;">: Blue Haven is my second published novel. My first book, Vanishing Hour, came out in 2020, just in time for a worldwide pandemic. </span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bffacb43-7fff-7abf-8faa-0332d8b28884"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lisa:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> My publishing house, The Story Plant, is a small-press shop. It was my literary agent (Travis Pennington at The Knight Agency) who guided me here initially. I like the intimacy of small-press, the increased autonomy, and the philosophy of The Story Plant specifically: their dedication to authors and interest in developing new voices. Founding editor, Lou Aronica, is also an author himself, so I feel like he really</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> gets </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">it. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lisa:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> My journey to publication definitely wasn’t overnight. I wrote a few unfinished manuscripts in my early twenties (Blue Haven being one), then completed a full manuscript by the time I was twenty-five, which remained unagented after a handful of queries (before I realized querying was usually more than just, you know, a few attempts). I started writing Vanishing Hour in my late twenties, finished it by thirty, and got </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">extremely </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">lucky with Travis during my first round of querying. Still, we worked on pitching and editing Vanishing Hour for years before it found a home at The Story Plant. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">The biggest con, in my opinion, is time. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Everything </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">takes time, and that’s something I didn’t realize as an aspiring author. If you want to pursue traditional publishing, there’s the monumental task of actually writing the book, then comes finding an agent, subbing with editors, selling the book, and many rounds of editing before it’s published. Each of these steps can be extraordinarily time consuming. That said, I’ve learned </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">so </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">much over the past decade about writing and myself, and I’m not sure if any of that can be properly rushed. </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8a87fe7f-7fff-e676-271c-e5c689f0291e" style="font-weight: normal;"></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Biggest pro? I’m doing something that I love. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lisa:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> For me personally, patience and perseverance. Determination </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">will</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"> get you where you want to go, it just might take a little (or a lot) longer than you think. To quote Dory from Nemo, “Just keep swimming, just keep swimming.” </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-62930e05-7fff-6bf6-7bee-9f39c380cff7" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What I’ve learned about the publishing industry as a whole, is that it’s </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hard. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I mean, you’re walking into a ruthless and rejection-forward space … voluntarily. But there are more opportunities now for aspiring authors than ever before—especially with the number of indie options and small-press houses that accept manuscripts without representation. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Lisa: </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap;">Yes, definitely! </span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e5f3b008-7fff-33c0-1a02-b2dd9b8e0cd0"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lisa:<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t give up! </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And you will want to, at some point (see “ruthless and rejection-forward space,” above). There’s a reason you started writing: you enjoy it, and you have something to say. Focus on the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">why </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">behind the words—get swept into a story, learn something, and most importantly, enjoy the process. Because if you’re not enjoying it, what’s the point? </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></h3></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-30469908616930281562022-06-21T05:18:00.002-07:002022-06-21T05:18:44.538-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Cheryl Carpinello #books #bookpublishing<p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-ix5CvUr1607V2Dm_9OhtvV7m9HcKgI6s75CDGbZ-K6aIXf5ArkvYjjg7ZAllDb8Oqr4cZl-cSHzUzW4gPWNDSfR1Inj4R2YYvMCDEIRoy9z-OQzTlyn6R7fI4qh0FNadeRRU2t0x5xu5AEnoo4veORyubaWU1tQ1-6mK_YMh45GxA84-tAvxdvO/s3000/Cheryl%20Carpinello%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2583" data-original-width="3000" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9-ix5CvUr1607V2Dm_9OhtvV7m9HcKgI6s75CDGbZ-K6aIXf5ArkvYjjg7ZAllDb8Oqr4cZl-cSHzUzW4gPWNDSfR1Inj4R2YYvMCDEIRoy9z-OQzTlyn6R7fI4qh0FNadeRRU2t0x5xu5AEnoo4veORyubaWU1tQ1-6mK_YMh45GxA84-tAvxdvO/s320/Cheryl%20Carpinello%20lg.jpg" width="320" /></a></strong></div><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cheryl Carpinello</strong> taught high school English for 25 years. During that time, she worked with numerous students who didn’t like to read for a variety of reasons. However, she discovered that even the most reluctant readers became engaged in the classroom and in reading when she introduced units on King Arthur and the works of ancient world writers. Upon retiring, she set out to write fast-paced, action-filled stories in these setting to encourage young readers to read more. Her success with readers aged 8-16 led her to reach out to the youngest of readers and those readers just starting out. Revising stories she had written for her own children, she created <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MYKWYVY?binding=paperback&ref=dbs_dp_rwt_sb_pc_tpbk" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Grandma/Grandpa’s Tales</strong></a> for ages 4-7. Her four grandchildren’s conversations created the stories in Book 3 of this series.<p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Visit her on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/ccarpinello" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a> </strong>and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href=" https://www.facebook.com/cheryl.carpinello1" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a></strong>.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: left;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;">Grandma and Grandpa’s Tales books 1-3 encourage early readers with fun stories incorporating difference aspects of nature. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Book 1</strong><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">, Wild Creatures In My Neighborhood</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">What if I Went to the Circus</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">,</em> explores the wildlife around neighborhoods and introduces decision-making. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Book 2</strong>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Singers of Songs</em> and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Not Too Stubborn Humpback</em>, explores a common, but not so common insect, and lets readers see that being stubborn isn’t always good. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Book 3</strong>, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vampires in the Backyard </em>and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Fish Tale</em>, introduces readers to an extended metaphor and lets them decide if the fish story is real.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Cherry Swash"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; text-align: center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></span></p><div><h3 style="background-color: white; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheryl:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a teacher, my work with readers, reluctant readers, and non-readers at the high school level fueled my interest in writing stories for elementary/middle school students (ages 8/9-15) in hopes of catching the reluctant readers and non-readers early in their schooling. My vehicles for these stories are Arthurian Legend and the Ancient Worlds. My high school students loved these, even those who didn’t like to read. However, I realized that there were important age groups that I was not reaching, mainly preschoolers and beginning readers.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-indent: 0px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2c762d23-7fff-fb4b-1b05-bb6813413098" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Finding some short stories I had written many years earlier, I decided to turn these into picture books for a new series: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Grandma’s Tales</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Now this series has expanded into three books containing two stories each. Each of the books also come with either a Grandma or Grandpa on the cover.</span></span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #222222;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Is this your first book?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8564a7e7-7fff-8e8c-0f2e-992e5e5e4a76" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheryl:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> No. In addition to this series, I have my </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guinevere Trilogy (Guinevere: On the Eve of Legend; Guinevere: At the Dawn of Legend; </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Guinevere: The Legend)</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the stand alone </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The King’s Ransom (Young Knights of the Round Table).</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> These are all set in the days of King Arthur. My ancient Egyptian tales are the time travel adventure </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sons of the Sphinx</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tutankhamen Speaks. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have a new series coming out in June 2022, which features Rosa (Sphinx) and her cousin Jerome. The first book in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Feathers of the Phoenix</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> series is </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Atlantean Horse.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This series will meld the ancient/modern worlds in a race to find the five feathers of the Phoenix to raise Atlantis.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4768fe22-7fff-ca33-e4fb-70308c3d2c89" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheryl:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I’m an Indie Author, but I publish with Silver Quill Publishing out of England. Silver Quill is an author consortium consisting of 12 authors from England and Europe. I’m the only one from the US. I’ve also published through a small press in Canada. The traditional publishing route was 1-2 years from acceptance to print. Too long for my goals of reaching young readers.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bree Serif"; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-8bce6f6d-7fff-3743-94c7-97c56b46a095" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheryl:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> An Indie author from the from the beginning (2009), I thrive in this environment. My writing goal of getting books into the hands of beginning/young readers remains the same. Traditional publishing, when I first started, took 1-2 years for a book to be available to the public. I didn’t want to wait that long. My first few years saw potential readers questioning whether I was self-published. Now with many popular traditionally-published authors choosing to publish their books via the Indie author platform, the public perception has changed to be more positive.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Bree Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheryl:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "Bree Serif"; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Over my 13 years as an Indie author, I’ve seen several significant changes. As I mentioned above, many first-time authors are choosing the self-publishing route as their road map to print. Out of these authors, an overwhelming number have chosen to take their writing to a higher level by spending the time and money to have their books done right.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7d1af4f9-7fff-e68e-34ae-315547cd3164" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheryl:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Being an Indie author is not for the faint-hearted. Indies take great pride not only in their writing, but also in the presentation of that writing. True Indie authors spend a lot of their money on editing, layout, covers, and publishing to make sure their books are professionally presented. Covers typically run from $300 USD to $899 USD. Editing and layout can often run from $250 USD to $500 USD. </span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-85d997c8-7fff-76c7-66f1-c8924ad88523" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cheryl:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> My advice to aspiring authors is not to get bogged down on any one book. Have confidence in yourself and your ability to tell a story. Close down that critical side of your brain, let your creative side tell the story, and enjoy what you’re doing.</span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></h3></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-42736451553458613682022-05-10T21:00:00.000-07:002022-05-10T21:00:00.161-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Roger Stark #books #bookpublishing<p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMofrmLtsKZfbjq29gJVW0KjsUdux6JhbWqK4qFzNGMDm7Ah2JQ8uXlo-gThf4tDpSYEOfq8yAo6h4TB_EdQ2hHWgXFqDtgGSqgp2X3RyAzfISoYaKwgUBk_UMKikr2UTex0pmvln_PLt0Cy6ulfP2YLzr9OLQf3_DfnF7H8zcgL9NE3GTctYYa4o/s960/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMofrmLtsKZfbjq29gJVW0KjsUdux6JhbWqK4qFzNGMDm7Ah2JQ8uXlo-gThf4tDpSYEOfq8yAo6h4TB_EdQ2hHWgXFqDtgGSqgp2X3RyAzfISoYaKwgUBk_UMKikr2UTex0pmvln_PLt0Cy6ulfP2YLzr9OLQf3_DfnF7H8zcgL9NE3GTctYYa4o/s320/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I am, by my admission, a reluctant writer. But some stories demand to be told. When we hear them, we must pick up our pen, lest we forget and the stories are lost.<p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Six years ago, in a quiet conversation with my friend Marvin, I learned the tragic story his father, a WW2 B-29 Airplane Commander, shot down over Nagoya, Japan just months before the end of the war.</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The telling of the story that evening by this half orphan was so moving and full of emotion, it compelled me to ask if I could write the story. The result was <a href="https://amzn.to/3JsqVi1" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">They Called Him Marvin</em></strong></a>.</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">My life has been profoundly touched in so many ways by being part of documenting this sacred story. I pray that we never forget, as a people, the depth of sacrifice that was made by ordinary people like Marvin and his father and mother on our behalf.</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">My career as an addiction counselor (CDP) lead me to write “The Waterfall Concept; A Blueprint for Addiction Recovery,” and co-author “Reclaiming Your Addicted Brain.”</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">My next project is already underway, a memoir of growing in SW Washington called “Life on a Sorta Farm.” My wife of 49 years, Susan, and I still live in that area.</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">We raised seven children and have eleven grandchildren. We love to travel and see the sites and cultures of the world. I still get on my bicycle whenever I can.</p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">You can visit Roger’s website at <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://theycalledhimmarvin.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://theycalledhimmarvin.com</a></strong>/ or connect with him on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TCHMarvin" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a></strong> or <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rogerstark64/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Instagram</a></strong>.</p><div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJtT3FikZyeDqcRmiWkBt1Py7t2K-xME85Zzg4RefoWhbkiHdaE-Gpt0wTtiAIH4Jrtf852iIMLL83X7HPiEqa09JQvsozsVAtHeYDdABzw5yAywMGUClX5J--zXGlUXcE1opCrAMofGG6i-f0NFIRMjwt_p9exbJC2ClLGjtWv4ZWdowGn4PgcOD/s916/They%20Called%20Him%20Marvin%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="916" data-original-width="609" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxJtT3FikZyeDqcRmiWkBt1Py7t2K-xME85Zzg4RefoWhbkiHdaE-Gpt0wTtiAIH4Jrtf852iIMLL83X7HPiEqa09JQvsozsVAtHeYDdABzw5yAywMGUClX5J--zXGlUXcE1opCrAMofGG6i-f0NFIRMjwt_p9exbJC2ClLGjtWv4ZWdowGn4PgcOD/w266-h400/They%20Called%20Him%20Marvin%20lg.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><br />Lady Jane Lenwood is abandoned and alone in an empty castle in the middle of a dark twisted forest. The locals call her a witch because she has the “sight.”<p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">When a wounded stranger is found within the gates, she is warned he carries secrets and their lives will be intertwined.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Lady Jane walks with a limp following a riding accident the night her mother left her. And had given up on having a normal life. She blames her misfortune on the current Duke of Rathborne.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Max Radley is sent by the king to find a traitor. His search leads him to Rathborne Castle and the beautiful woman living there. He must keep his identity a secret in order to find the traitor.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Lies, deception, and a grand scheme to relieve him of his wealth have the real villians framing him for treason.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Only Jane and her supernatural ability can save him, but in order to find the answer she must face her past and the feeling she has for him.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/s960/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/w53-h53/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" width="53" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;">I am, by my own
admission, a reluctant writer. But there are stories that demand to to be told.
When we hear them, we must pick up our pen, lest we forget and the stories be
lost.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;"> </span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;">Six years ago, in
a quiet conversation with my friend Marvin, I learned the tragic story his
father, a WW2 B-29 Airplane Commander, shot down over Nagoya, Japan just months
before the end of the war.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;">The telling of
the story that evening by this half orphan was so moving and full of emotion,
it compelled me to ask if I could write the story. The result being “They
Called Him Marvin.” </span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙 </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Is this your first book?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/s960/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/w53-h53/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" width="53" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;">In my “previous”
life, I worked as an Addiction Counselor, as a result of that experience I
wrote two recovery books, “The Waterfall Concept” and “Recovering Your Addicted
Brain”</span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;">
</p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/s960/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/w53-h53/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" width="53" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;">I self published
both of my recovery titles, so self publishing seemed like the way to go.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/s960/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/w53-h53/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" width="53" /></a><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;">Because of my
previous experience I wasn’t afraid of self publishing (under the name of Silver
Star Publishing.) I have come to learn that marketing a work of creative non
fiction is much different than marketing a Recovery book. There is a great deal
of information available about the process, but I have learned the learning
curve is steep.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif;"><span style="color: black;">And of course, </span><span style="color: black;">expensive. By using a traditional publisher that cost and the expertise
would be provided by others</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;">.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/s960/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/w53-h53/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" width="53" /></span></a><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;">My no brainer observation is that the business of book publishing has
been under going major changes. What was true just a few years ago is not true
today. Staying ahead of the game and on the edge of the changes is a
key. There are many, many resources for self publishing, which is a
very positive thing. The learning curve can be challenging!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; margin: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/s960/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/w53-h53/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" width="53" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Yes, but do a lot
of research and get as many allies on your team as possible.</span></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/s960/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="53" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwq1qR0IjqznCYm7VWYiEBxYdcEZE6bVavsyENTgL7RxCjdy5ybHSPT5F48YhFmvSFXoWTr3ALAyXphMvrIguC1J9rktIlcykBdE9ZyDFqGT_3w4IMqVFzTZ1DLxSqS6OVDhma0jEWW4HFJfgJRQqmbBChnV90hKuWjfdZIMdLFuDb9Wsmq4hAdS_O/w53-h53/Roger%20Stark%20lg.jpg" width="53" /></a><span style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Bree Serif; font-size: large;">Get good at your craft, and be ready to work very hard!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-75193273672217158812022-03-15T08:00:00.005-07:002022-03-15T08:02:22.136-07:00How to Publish a Book in 2022: 10 Steps to Success<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaJVB4s8hJBAFw59Y5DpRQ6DRfctwKYvvOz7ipYvxjQRNvcnUGT08AhStvxnXVDTWAGmg9SN4ADp5Wd-ix39XQb5Ngc8IuhI-zDNQEmRSxV7oJapdPZWbIimecSJvq9pXrjzvXO3iWJm1aO6Vomwhle2S6f0LIgi0fUO6A90MW1Xs5ODtk6Urcm1ah=s640" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgaJVB4s8hJBAFw59Y5DpRQ6DRfctwKYvvOz7ipYvxjQRNvcnUGT08AhStvxnXVDTWAGmg9SN4ADp5Wd-ix39XQb5Ngc8IuhI-zDNQEmRSxV7oJapdPZWbIimecSJvq9pXrjzvXO3iWJm1aO6Vomwhle2S6f0LIgi0fUO6A90MW1Xs5ODtk6Urcm1ah=w515-h343" width="515" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">If you’re a writer, a dreamer, or anyone with something important to say, you’ve probably thought about writing and publishing a book. But while</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><a href="https://blog.reedsy.com/how-to-write-a-book/" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(77, 133, 185, 0.3); color: #4d85b9; cursor: pointer; font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s; word-break: break-word;">writing a book</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px;">is a huge achievement in and of itself, getting it in front of readers is another matter — and figuring out how to publish a book can present a real challenge for first-timers!</span></p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: auto !important; background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Indeed, with more publishing options than ever before, today's authors have a lot to take in. We're here to cut through the fog and show you exactly how to publish a book in 2022. In this comprehensive guide, you’ll find concrete tips, publishing resources, and all the professional guidance you’ll need to get <em>your</em> book out into the world.</p><p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: auto !important; background-color: white; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px 0px 16px;">Read the rest of article at <a href="https://blog.reedsy.com/how-to-publish-a-book/">Reedsy</a>.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-1736963345238830712022-02-07T05:51:00.002-08:002022-02-07T05:51:45.927-08:00Book Publishing Secrets with Virginia Barlow #books #bookpublishing<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioUTMnfxFvqs31H73cbYczEFPP_j-Ja7AAX3uR-s1sq6LNRWn4hfHM7kVTReKvcZ3cv3Ez3mzE6Yyk9fDLrV0KJE7cPVk-uJGL3n8oexr-m1Ym2IX2FSqjtvtSatArZhUjw6rgf_fV3vGZX9lot1iOSOwAX669cjWoq4TPaARSjLYsUVJzo0OJT0Vt=s900" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioUTMnfxFvqs31H73cbYczEFPP_j-Ja7AAX3uR-s1sq6LNRWn4hfHM7kVTReKvcZ3cv3Ez3mzE6Yyk9fDLrV0KJE7cPVk-uJGL3n8oexr-m1Ym2IX2FSqjtvtSatArZhUjw6rgf_fV3vGZX9lot1iOSOwAX669cjWoq4TPaARSjLYsUVJzo0OJT0Vt=s320" width="256" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); color: #333333;">I love being an author. It’s all about where your characters lead you. I start with a general idea. As the story unfolds, I type as fast as I can in hopes I keep up with my characters. They have had me jotting on napkins, making notes while I’m waiting in a line, and waking me up in the middle of the night. The hard part is always the ending. My characters live with me and when I reach the end of the story, it is hard to say goodbye. Sometimes, I let the story sit for a few days to make sure I’m okay with them leaving home to get published. Kind of like when you kids move out. LOL</span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">I enjoy my grandchildren, and the time I share with them. They make me smile with their antics. I like to quilt, crochet, knit and sew. Cooking and baking are occasional itches I scratch. The rest of the time, they are necessary evils. LOL.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">My greatest support comes from my husband. He has been my sounding board for all my stories. My daughters are also a great support to me. I couldn’t do it without my family.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Virginia Barlow’s recent release is the paranormal romance, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/31jVXYA" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">The Witch of Rathborne Castle</a>.</strong></span></em></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">You can visit Virginia’s website at <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.virginia-barlow.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.virginia-barlow.com</a></strong> or connect with her on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Virgini35142126" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19838312.Virginia_Barlow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Goodreads</a></strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/3046288755596817" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a></strong>.</span></em></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6ZuMZeCyC8KDRGfWJMXmkezfc2Ro7etZDAD-K8FOu7yEkLxOrP3h2N0XKqK0htdrv_9tprof5TPRUvNAtCl0UtD6N99PEu2rW-uB7VUF8dgv-DBcyZ6ihWcKsQ1GK25MBj9-w_1ikMkd38IOt7BpF-VrMHsKnWQh7R73rc-jW6urcIP2BSqGO8bT4=s750" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6ZuMZeCyC8KDRGfWJMXmkezfc2Ro7etZDAD-K8FOu7yEkLxOrP3h2N0XKqK0htdrv_9tprof5TPRUvNAtCl0UtD6N99PEu2rW-uB7VUF8dgv-DBcyZ6ihWcKsQ1GK25MBj9-w_1ikMkd38IOt7BpF-VrMHsKnWQh7R73rc-jW6urcIP2BSqGO8bT4=s320" width="213" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">BOOK DESCRIPTION:</span><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Lady Jane Lenwood is abandoned and alone in an empty castle in the middle of a dark twisted forest. The locals call her a witch because she has the “sight.”</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">When a wounded stranger is found within the gates, she is warned he carries secrets and their lives will be intertwined.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Lady Jane walks with a limp following a riding accident the night her mother left her. And had given up on having a normal life. She blames her misfortune on the current Duke of Rathborne.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Max Radley is sent by the king to find a traitor. His search leads him to Rathborne Castle and the beautiful woman living there. He must keep his identity a secret in order to find the traitor.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Lies, deception, and a grand scheme to relieve him of his wealth have the real villians framing him for treason.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto; font-size: medium;">Only Jane and her supernatural ability can save him, but in order to find the answer she must face her past and the feeling she has for him.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙: </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Thank you for your time in answering our questions
about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you
decided to become an author and pen this book?</span></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=s900" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="720" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=w52-h65" width="52" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><br />:
I love to tell stories and have several rolling around in my head at any given
time.<o:p></o:p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"> Is this your first book?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=s900" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="720" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=w52-h65" width="52" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">:
No. I have five published books<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"> With this particular book, how did you publish –
traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=s900" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="720" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=w52-h65" width="52" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">: I
published with a traditional publishing house. I love The Wild Rose Press. They
published my other books.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"> Can you tell us a little about your publishing
journey? The pros and cons?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=s900" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="720" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=w52-h65" width="52" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">:
It took me a while to get published with my first book and I can still remember
the day I got the email with my first contract. Editing and publishing are
quite the process. I was quite surprised by the details.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">What lessons do you feel you learned about your
particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=s900" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="720" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=w52-h65" width="52" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">:
The lesson I learned was to stick to it. Never give up<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">Would you recommend this method of publishing to
other authors?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=s900" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="720" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=w52-h65" width="52" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">:
I would because there are so many elements to editing and publishing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: "Segoe UI Emoji", sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">📙: </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring
authors?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=s900" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; font-size: 18.72px; font-weight: 400; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="720" height="65" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgB1L0B7HWWZC0zpzpftxGvN2bCttFofe4tPP7LYLCCz3Z6EfpNf8j2OdcZP7_v3taiFNq2rsP-5DcCt92i9xG24lneUl09UUW9RdROC8bYniWFXlXpxTpZzAeCWkc0ZAZETIBG5-2LD7c_07JAn6mHthO47WT6qngTIEDlwY0fy2aXiIlm2rjfFoQA=w52-h65" width="52" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;">:
Keep writing, keep creating, keep going.</span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-27716333028256823052021-12-16T06:03:00.001-08:002021-12-16T06:03:04.106-08:00Book Publishing Secrets with S.M. Adams #books #bookpublishing<p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.ariseandwalk.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></strong></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdDl397v7bsvi2R1bn3N-dJaF7PTJIbRRdjN8MSTeK-o0MnUUTUK-srV08vM2Tv-5TIFWsfQxII4VLw0T2ZQ2YXHIuBvWr0Vw0e3K5vWAS9SzHjAqbc_JJ_b-2wgBa7gVkuXZBsiDsgJa7PLrFkK30HJqF1iVcyM87f7YToOi0dCx9wXYMdcS0Z7uY=s401" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="339" data-original-width="401" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjdDl397v7bsvi2R1bn3N-dJaF7PTJIbRRdjN8MSTeK-o0MnUUTUK-srV08vM2Tv-5TIFWsfQxII4VLw0T2ZQ2YXHIuBvWr0Vw0e3K5vWAS9SzHjAqbc_JJ_b-2wgBa7gVkuXZBsiDsgJa7PLrFkK30HJqF1iVcyM87f7YToOi0dCx9wXYMdcS0Z7uY=s320" width="320" /></a></strong></span></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br />S.M. Adams</strong> is a licensed secondary school teacher and experienced college instructor with over 10 years’ experience in the field of education. She holds graduate training in both American History and Adolescent Education. A confessed late bloomer Sarah returned to college as a student-parent to uncover her life’s passion for education and helping others. For years of community service and volunteer work, S.M Adams was awarded the prestigious New York Life fellowship from the Colin Powell Center for Leadership and Service in 2008 and received the Phoenix Award from Urban Resource Institute thereafter. She also briefly spent time on the policy committee of HEAASC, the Higher Education Alliance for Advocates of Students with Children. As a domestic violence advocate, she has appeared on NYC Fox 5, NYC Bronx 12 as well as in Marie Claire magazine. A graduate of City College of New York and Pace University this New York transplant by way of Jamaica W.I. loves the summertime, reading on the beach, eating mangoes and spending time with her son and husband.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3kr8hx8" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Arise and Walk: From the Sidelines of Life to the Next Level</a></em></strong> is her latest book.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Visit her website at <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.ariseandwalk.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">www.ariseandwalk.com</a></strong>. Connect with her on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/arise_walk" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a></strong>, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.instagram.com/ariseandwalk" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Instagram</a></strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/arisewalk" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a></strong>.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhz_rYO2vw6cFi6ffO_MMxGJWFAo_oJ5Nh1Rvk28efcWHqCrl_VIwt7tvxsQNSpYFw87au75qCNOf18z9nr134S4XxUudo5nn6xd_kWMyqm3khd-cG7atVTj1epiyUw6DVBctEibZmWhSq4p_1Ro7s8Tskg9PhNn5vqOLrMzpxxiq9jiws2KPsuSkeo=s499" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhz_rYO2vw6cFi6ffO_MMxGJWFAo_oJ5Nh1Rvk28efcWHqCrl_VIwt7tvxsQNSpYFw87au75qCNOf18z9nr134S4XxUudo5nn6xd_kWMyqm3khd-cG7atVTj1epiyUw6DVBctEibZmWhSq4p_1Ro7s8Tskg9PhNn5vqOLrMzpxxiq9jiws2KPsuSkeo=w268-h400" width="268" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br />Whatever challenge you may currently be facing, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3kr8hx8" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Arise & Walk: From the Sidelines of Life to the Next Level</a></em></strong> offers a proven framework to assist you in making that much needed life transformation.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">During the pandemic with her classroom shuttered S.M. Adams an experienced educator and instructor shifted her focus from teaching adolescents to creating a different kind of lesson plan, one to help survivors of the Covid 19 pandemic and its devastating aftermath, reimagine and reinvent themselves.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Always a teacher first, this new author with over a decade’s experience in New York City classrooms uses verbal imagery, examples from her own life along with interesting analogies to make clear the mindset shifts and action steps which lead to a transformed life.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">So, if you’re unsure of what to do, look no further.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3kr8hx8" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Arise & Walk: From the Sidelines of Life to the Next Level</a></em></strong> will help you to think about:</span></p><ul style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; list-style: outside none none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">How to begin to process change</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">How to emotionally and mentally deal with downscaling</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Whether to continue with the old venture or start something new</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Which relationships to embrace and lean into as you undergo a life change</span></li><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">How to clear the path to accomplish new money goals</span></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">and</span></p><ul style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; list-style: outside none none; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">How to better manage time in a way that suits the new you.</span></li></ul><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"> </p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you for your time in
answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having
you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;"><a name="_Hlk88435680">S.M. Adams</a>:<a name="_Hlk87867357"> I’ve always played with the idea of writing but
really found my voice and got serious at the start of the pandemic. I used to
clap with my neighbors out the window every evening at 7pm when the nurses and
doctors ended their shift. After a while I felt like that was not enough that I
needed to be doing more to help out. The idea came to me that based on how
devastating Covid-19 was many people would need to reimagine and reinvent themselves.
And as someone who made a life transformation a few years ago I decided that
maybe I could write a book that would be useful.</a></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is this your first book?</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">S.M. Adams: Yes and no, yes in
that it feels like the first because it absolutely captures my voice as an
author and attempts to do what I’ve always wanted to do which is share my life
experiences in a way that others can find meaningful. No in that I have put
together other books in the past but I think those works represent the struggle
I had to find my voice. I never promoted them and do not really even think of
them as mine. Inside I feel like this is my first book.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;">With this particular book,
how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you
choose this method?</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">S.M. Adams: I published with a
tiny independent publishing company<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can you tell us a little
about your publishing journey? The pros
and cons?</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">S.M. Adams: Its tedious and you
have to get all the little details together that a major publishing house would
have done for you. But there are small publishing companies that can make it
easier if you can pay for it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;">What lessons do you feel you
learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing
industry as a whole?</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">S.M. Adams: It takes a lot of commitment
but it breaks down the barrier to entry<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;">Would you recommend this
method of publishing to other authors?</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">S.M. Adams: Yes especially to
those who are serious about writing and willing to do the marketing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;">What’s the best advice you
can give to aspiring authors?</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">S.M. Adams: Keep at it, Toni
Morrison didn’t start writing until she was 39 years old.</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div></div></div></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-67428058286652741502021-12-15T06:06:00.003-08:002021-12-15T06:06:49.564-08:00Book Publishing Secrets with JD Wise #books #bookpublishing<p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">JD Wise is a West Virginian-born author who believes that the world can be changed for the better, by one person, one time, doing the right thing.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“Just think what would happen if we all did that,” said Wise.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Wise is happily married to the love of his life. Together, they have four wonderful children, who are the true inspiration for the book.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2ZWPimZ" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nomophobia</em></strong></a> is his latest children’s book.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Visit him on <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.instagram.com/achildcalledyou" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Instagram</a></strong> and <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/326002875526486" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a></strong>.</span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLkVHmrbu1Qei6vSWqiKylE21KW_ILqGIkM108LN1aiuj7uX1C-F-du_4_BtZtenH6Dw0hk5I9yFcn2o5_Uz3V6Vb-9uVud2rwQnS9JzujhMJ21hgGqTEoT2MnNAkApYvzovCfo_DGgRfgVH39VEIv9GBx2MFG-xrAVeSdGC3kQiSwre2SQPBfPTH1=s600" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="437" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgLkVHmrbu1Qei6vSWqiKylE21KW_ILqGIkM108LN1aiuj7uX1C-F-du_4_BtZtenH6Dw0hk5I9yFcn2o5_Uz3V6Vb-9uVud2rwQnS9JzujhMJ21hgGqTEoT2MnNAkApYvzovCfo_DGgRfgVH39VEIv9GBx2MFG-xrAVeSdGC3kQiSwre2SQPBfPTH1=s320" width="233" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br />Welcome to <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/2ZWPimZ" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">NOMOPHOBIA</a></em></strong> – A PLACE IN TIME WHERE OVERUSED CELLULAR DEVICES TURN CHILDREN INTO OGRES.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">This is a somewhat true, mostly exaggerated story of modern-day children – children who have spent way too much time on their phones. One night the children are mysteriously turned into ogres. At first the children blame each other for their condition. When they finished blaming each other, they worked together to find a cure. They searched the house for a cure…but they could not find one. They tried to wash the ogre off…but it stayed on.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">They had all but given up when sissy’s phone accidently falls into the fish tank. When the phone gets wet, a hidden message appears: YOU WERE TURNED INTO OGRES, BECAUSE ON THE PHONE YOU DID STAY! NOW, PUT IT AWAY AND GO OUT AND PLAY!</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">So the children rushed outside, where they returned to normal. That day the children learned a valuable lesson. OVERUSED CELL PHONES TURN CHILDREN INTO OGRES.</span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">Thank
you for your time in answering our questions about getting published.
Let's begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and
pen this book?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">JD</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">:
Children in my life inspired me to write <i>Nomophobia. </i>One
little boy that I know told his grandma that he did not need to learn how to
tell time. He said that if he wanted to know what time it was, then he'd
just ask the phone. Another time, I was in the waiting room at the
doctor's office. The nurse came out to call in a child who was playing a
game on their phone. The child would not move until the game was
over. This is what sparked the idea for <i>Nomophobia. </i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">Is this
your first book?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">JD</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">:
No, this is my second book. My first book is<i> A Child Called
YOU. </i>A story of kindness without judgment for everyone.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">With
this particular book, how did you publish-traditional, small press, Indie, etc.
- and why did you choose this method?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">JD</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">: <i> </i>I
went Indie with this particular book. For months, I sent out queries but
to no avail. I thought that I had an important story to tell.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">Can you
tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">JD</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">:
There are more no's that yes's: No's seem frustrating, but it's worth it
all when someone finally says yes and sees the significance of your work.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">What
lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and
about the publishing industry as a whole?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">JD</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">:
I learned to never give up. No one else will believe what you write
unless you believe in it first.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">Would
you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;">JD</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">:
I would recommend trying to get a traditional agreement first. All the
rejections will help you to refine your skills as a writer.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">What's
the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">JD:
Use the rejection that you receive to your advantage. Once you've
completed your manuscript, let someone else read it and don't be afraid to
change things according to the critiquing.</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" imageanchor="1" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div></div></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-35993430717913557962021-11-25T21:00:00.001-08:002021-11-25T21:00:00.151-08:00Book Publishing Secrets with Maria J. Andrade @andradeauthor #books #bookpublishing<div style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://www.booksasfriends.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;"></a></strong></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjigVwkhKWTntwQhhEMQlKlv-yEh1iwfnzTWlze86294cNC94A1nVD1kmSbWnMu52UcqlwHK6TTAYGLsivVZPA91qXvqIkDW26JrZgsdmuxjxwmw59B9xqjEkgO7vFDTogTB_MT38yDojs/s470/Maria+J.+Andrade.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="367" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjigVwkhKWTntwQhhEMQlKlv-yEh1iwfnzTWlze86294cNC94A1nVD1kmSbWnMu52UcqlwHK6TTAYGLsivVZPA91qXvqIkDW26JrZgsdmuxjxwmw59B9xqjEkgO7vFDTogTB_MT38yDojs/w313-h400/Maria+J.+Andrade.png" width="313" /></a></strong></div><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br />Maria J. Andrade</strong> was born in Ecuador, South America, and raised in New York and California. She has a bachelor of arts degree in English literature and a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. As a licensed therapist and writer, Maria has been diving into other people’s minds and her own, through dreams, poetry, and books for over three decades. She traveled with the Four Winds Society where she studied and was initiated into Andean shamanism in 1990.<p></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Before Maria retired as a therapist, she specialized in women’s issues and founded the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Wise Women’s Circle</strong> a ritualistic and transpersonal study group that continues today. The women support each other through life’s challenges and in the growth of mind, body, and spirit.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Maria Andrade’s books for children and adults is found in a variety of genres. This is an unforgettable first novel that reflects her imagination and creative storytelling.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3CQWKhJ" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Defiance and Redemption</a></em></strong> is her latest release.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Visit her website at <a href="http://www.booksasfriends.com/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">www.booksasfriends.com</a> or connect with her on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mariaandradebooks" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/AndradeAuthor" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2837778.Maria_J_Andrade" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ed6c0e; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">Goodreads</a>.</p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQU8yCvqiJ1LaupHVcnXT5_zEEl8vcIYVijl2MG7yTTWey4St6pEeNXT5RGCDsk_rkfDZmoTNFG1OsL8sttE8zF3lrDjZhCY1T7a0j0zR35QUKX2T9nw87zkOZ01kUNfiz7Y7eFG7UfIA/s649/Defiance+and+Redemption.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="649" data-original-width="485" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQU8yCvqiJ1LaupHVcnXT5_zEEl8vcIYVijl2MG7yTTWey4St6pEeNXT5RGCDsk_rkfDZmoTNFG1OsL8sttE8zF3lrDjZhCY1T7a0j0zR35QUKX2T9nw87zkOZ01kUNfiz7Y7eFG7UfIA/w299-h400/Defiance+and+Redemption.png" width="299" /></a></div><br />Based on a true story,<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Defiance and Redemption, A Lifetime of Un</em>broken<em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Bonds,</em> brings to life the joys, dramas, and triumphs of two sisters, Eva and Victoria Alisio and their loyal friend Marta. The sisters are raised by their atheist Grandfather Marcus and religious Grandmother Maria Luisa. Eva, a proud and strong-willed young woman defies her family, society, and culture, faces scandal and disgrace, for her forbidden love affair. Victoria finds herself in the center of a multigenerational conflict as her benefactor bestows a great inheritance on her excluding the rightful heirs. Marta, loyal to the childhood bond with the Alisio sisters, brings humor and support to their twists and turns of fortune. The young women’s bond of love, and perseverance, carries them through ordinary and extraordinary losses, triumphs, and ultimately to their destiny in the United States.<p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">An important novel about 20th Century women, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Defiance and Redemption</em>, is an absorbing epic that moves through decades and destinies. It blends personal and historical events into a collective tale of self-determination, love, and sisterhood.</p><h3 style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d3e50; font-family: helvetica_condensedmedium; font-size: 24px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1; margin: 20px 0px 10px; position: relative; text-align: center;">ORDER YOUR COPY</h3><h3 data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; text-align: center;">Amazon: <a href="https://amzn.to/3CQWKhJ">https://amzn.to/3CQWKhJ</a> </h3><h3 data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; text-align: center;">B&N:<a data-mce-href="https://bit.ly/3BLZYS9" href="https://bit.ly/3BLZYS9"> https://bit.ly/3BLZYS9</a></h3><h3 data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; text-align: center;">Draft2Digital: <a data-mce-href="https://bit.ly/3EQFud3" href="https://bit.ly/3EQFud3">https://bit.ly/3EQFud3</a></h3><h3 data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", "Bitstream Charter", Times, serif; text-align: center;">Want a signed copy? <a data-mce-href="http://www.booksasfriends.com/" href="http://www.booksasfriends.com/">www.booksasfriends.com</a></h3><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Thank you for your time in answering our questions
about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided
to become an author and pen this book?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Maria: I wrote this story in honor of my family,
especially my mother. I wanted to share the story of her early life and the
difficulties she overcame as a woman living in the early 20<sup>th</sup>
Century who defied the rules of her society, culture, and religion simply
because she chose a path outside the norms of her day. In addition, I also
wanted to express the moving story of sisterhood that the three main female
characters express in my book and how women have historically supported each
other and do so today, to survive and create better worlds for themselves and
their children.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Is this your first book? <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Maria:
No. I have written four other books for adults and five books for children.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">With this particular book, how did you publish –
traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Maria:
This book was published by a small press and supported by Spiro Books. I chose
this path because it afforded me more creative control of my work from its
inception to its future.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Can you tell us a little about your publishing
journey? The pros and cons?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Maria: I think my journey was made a bit more
complex with the fact that I translated a novel of 77,000 words from English to
Spanish. This meant, much more work than if it had been one book. Nevertheless,
I did this to fulfill a vision I had to support my culture and to the extend
the readership of this story.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">What lessons do you feel you learned about your
particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Maria:
The publishing world is in great flux. In the past, the only option writers had
was to find an agent, which could take a good deal of time, then hope to get
signed by a large publishing house. So, from start to finish this could take
several years to see a work manifested. Then if the book did not sell at the
level expected, the publisher could shelve the book and it would be out of
print. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">With
small presses, Indie publishing, or hybrid publishing writers have a good deal
more choices about what path to take regarding publishing. I still find
limitations, for example, in the publication of Spanish books from finding the
right agents, to finding traditional publishing houses to bring those books to
readers. Moreover, today, writers must know about marketing their work. Even
large publishing houses expect a writer to help market their book. This entails
wearing another hat beside that of “writer.” This is a challenging role and
requires a good deal more knowledge about social media and other forms of
selling a product. Here, I think traditional publishing has an advantage. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Would you recommend this method of publishing to
other authors?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Maria:
I think each author must find their own path according to their temperament and
financial resources. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring
authors?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;">Maria: Believe
in yourself and in your writing but continue to improve. Get feedback from
friends, and professionals about your ideas and work. Write and re-write until
you know the writing is at the best level possible. Then dare to share it with
the public because if they can’t find it out there, they won’t know it exists!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A
writer is like a mother who gives birth and then must wash, dress, and comb the
child’s hair before sending it out to the world. Good moms stick around for
support until that child matures enough to have a life of its own. So it is
with a piece of art, or a book. You created it and now it’s your job to find a
place in the world for your book so it can thrive.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s477/Thanks.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="109" data-original-width="477" height="73" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuFMw0YB-PjTA4BjZ30V3y0O-C4zi736283HEd4WMwvmxGLNnzQ3G-pvx28W5AtHCS3KFjXEDU0qvc6EDodTPfCgLvaRsB_oU8PgjP6kPfzeHyU6Is8HxDqiceAkCbqYaB0GZVJwR0KYM/s320/Thanks.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p></div></div></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-46723833313725785332021-11-07T01:14:00.003-07:002021-11-07T01:14:28.803-07:00Publishing Tips with Children's Author Faye Rapoport DesPres <p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrsUdP3x485XX7afZuY7b091naZkMJkGINJ5xWRVxhhZigVqNz0CP3jW8ueLKIPtuNNtRxvgx6Ctmuln1zLOlBbNqW2zHfyzqfUxqpfRTg-rs0f4j7VHrE28LjhMNi9adGgEni4SZu4I/s432/eoi7m7fi1ms4b0p27mgkk89jb6._SX450_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="288" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFrsUdP3x485XX7afZuY7b091naZkMJkGINJ5xWRVxhhZigVqNz0CP3jW8ueLKIPtuNNtRxvgx6Ctmuln1zLOlBbNqW2zHfyzqfUxqpfRTg-rs0f4j7VHrE28LjhMNi9adGgEni4SZu4I/s320/eoi7m7fi1ms4b0p27mgkk89jb6._SX450_.jpg" width="213" /></a></b></div><b>Author</b>: Faye Rapoport DesPres<p></p><p><b>Title</b>: Frazier: The Very Special Cat</p><p><b>Genre</b>: Children’s Books</p><p><b>Publisher</b>: Writer’s Coffee Bar Press</p><p><b>Website</b>: <a href="http://www.fayerapoportdespres.com">www.fayerapoportdespres.com</a></p><p><b>Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</b></p><p>Faye: I have been writing since I was a child, and I used my writing skills to build a career in journalism and public relations for environmental organizations and businesses. At some point I felt as if it was “now or never” to get back to creative writing, so I pursued a Master’s of Fine Arts Degree with the goal of publishing my first book. </p><p><b>Is this your first book? </b></p><p>Faye: Frazier: The Very Special Cat is actually my fourth book. My first book is a memoir-in-essays titled Message From a Blue Jay, and many of the personal essays in that book were first crafted during my MFA program. Since publishing the essay collection, I have written and published three children’s books.</p><p><b>With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</b></p><p>Faye: This book was published by what many people would consider a “hybrid” publisher. The publisher is a professional who chose to publish my children’s books, makes some of the high-level editorial decisions, and handles the editing, illustration approval, layout, design, file creation and production for a flat fee. In return I receive 100% of the royalties.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6ZJN5NB6Fz9JiuoGivdd5efXg4_jQg5aY1gJR2FmBJxtB_6p1F6Bm1r5iU9VlrXED_2i0AmdTiOe-DUBk1ilbWD7ON2fBVBvRGc5SBYWN_6TQ810VKT99GJRAwYob7rsFsclaoiS3Uw/s300/Frazier-CVR-LoRes-RGB.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="296" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn6ZJN5NB6Fz9JiuoGivdd5efXg4_jQg5aY1gJR2FmBJxtB_6p1F6Bm1r5iU9VlrXED_2i0AmdTiOe-DUBk1ilbWD7ON2fBVBvRGc5SBYWN_6TQ810VKT99GJRAwYob7rsFsclaoiS3Uw/s0/Frazier-CVR-LoRes-RGB.jpeg" width="296" /></a></div><p></p><p><b>Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</b></p><p>Faye: With my first book, I had an agent. Our agreement was unusual, however, in that my agent was a long-time colleague who had her own publishing company at one time and is an author herself. She agented a select number of other authors’ works part-time. I paid her up-front so that she would be compensated regardless of whether or not she landed a publisher for my book, which is not the usual way agents work. In the end she got two offers, but it took time and a lot of initial submissions to presses that ended up saying “no.” The two offers she got were great, but I ended up choosing a third publisher, a small independent press called Buddhapuss Ink. I happened to interact with the owner of the press on Twitter, and she asked to see the manuscript. Then she made the offer to publish it. </p><p>Like many writers, I initially dreamed of working with a major publisher or a university press, but I was happy with the professional way Buddhapuss Ink handled my book. They put a lot of care and effort into getting it out into the world, and their passion for the project made me feel good about the book.</p><p>After that, Buddhapuss Ink was interested in my children’s book ideas. Over time, unfortunately, the owner of the company — long-time publishing pro MaryChris Bradley — decided close up shop due to the financial challenges faced by independent, traditional publishers (although Buddhapuss Ink books are still in print and available). She has since moved forward with a different financial model for publishing future books under the imprint Writer’s Coffee Bar Press. Because MaryChris is such a pro and I was so happy with the way Buddhapuss Ink published my first book, we mutually decided to move forward with my children’s books under the Writer’s Coffee Bar Press imprint.</p><p><b>What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</b></p><p>Faye: The publishing industry — especially when it comes to the major houses — is a “tough nut to crack.” There is so much competition, and publishers understandably have to make decisions based on the perceived marketability of a project and how it fits with their goals and lists. It is hard if you are not a well-known author or personality to break through, though of course writers do. It takes persistence and a thick skin in the face of a lot of rejection. Sometimes it takes having or making the right connections. Sometimes you can work hard at it for months (or even years) and not get any offers. It can be discouraging.</p><p>For me, it made sense to find ways to make things happen that weren’t happening the traditional way or the way I’d initially dreamed they’d happen. My agreement with my agent for the first book is an example. I don’t know of anyone else who has worked that way with an agent (I don’t even know if any other agents would consider it). The decision to go with a small, independent press for Message From a Blue Jay was another example. Then, with my children’s books, I wouldn’t have felt comfortable self-publishing the books because I wanted the stamp of approval - and skills and experience - of a professional publisher behind the books. But I was willing to switch things up financially. Sometimes you have to find creative ways to make publishing happen, just as you find creative ways to tell stories.</p><p><b>Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</b></p><p>Faye: Yes. Actually, it depends. If getting your work out into the world with a professional publisher is a priority and you can handle the publishing costs, absolutely. But for some writers it makes more sense to go the traditional route, and for others it makes more sense to self-publish. I think it’s different for every writer and project, depending on many factors.</p><p><b>What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?</b></p><p>Faye: Focus first on the writing. Work at it, study it, practice it, and produce a manuscript you feel good about. Leave the worry about publishing until you have a manuscript ready to go. Then, explore your options and get your thick skin on. For some authors that will mean contacting agents, for some it will mean seeking out a small press without an agent, for some it will mean self-publishing. But no matter how you do or don’t publish, try not to let rejection by agents, publishers, or readers affect how you feel about yourself or your work. Believe in yourself and your own voice.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">//////////////</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p><i>Frazier: The Very Special Cat</i> is the third book in the Stray Cat Stories children’s book series. It tells the heartwarming story of a big orange tom cat who needed help and the humans who came to his rescue. The book, which is based on a true story and features colorful, charming illustrations by Laurel McKinstry Petersen, teaches children about compassion for stray animals and ways they can help. It also includes a message about being different and still being happy and loved. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of books in the Stray Cat Stories Series is donated to non-profit animal rescue organizations. Find out more on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09HWRGNYD/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0">Amazon</a>. </p><div><br /></div>Mayra Calvanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01444333264952371471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-24206646702589698292021-06-18T05:20:00.005-07:002021-06-18T05:20:39.309-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Connie Berry, Author of 'The Art of Betrayal' <p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqGS3eGmDwwf4Jk2Qv_4pae8QJ3SpDhkZDZlmmNQVPJc18U5SgSkPwNZo1nQAxP46G-HNmqnL4LTH38_IT4064a7nUV8tJte6thWUVOJ5Lsr180rQNpA7ystDLcfctFBRIBo23uPolTE/s2048/Author+Photo+New+Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1638" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfqGS3eGmDwwf4Jk2Qv_4pae8QJ3SpDhkZDZlmmNQVPJc18U5SgSkPwNZo1nQAxP46G-HNmqnL4LTH38_IT4064a7nUV8tJte6thWUVOJ5Lsr180rQNpA7ystDLcfctFBRIBo23uPolTE/s320/Author+Photo+New+Final.jpg" /></a></b></div><b>Name</b>: Connie Berry<p></p><p><b>Book Title</b>: The Art of Betrayal</p><p><b>Genre</b>: Traditional Mystery</p><p><b>Publisher</b>: Crooked Lane Books</p><p><b>Links to book</b>: </p><p><b>Amazon</b>: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Betrayal-Kate-Hamilton-Mystery/dp/1643855948/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Z0XKIPNLPQEB&dchild=1&keywords=the+art+of+betrayal+by+connie+berry&qid=1620322876&sprefix=The+Art+of+Betrayal+by+%2Caps%2C155&sr=8-1">The Art of Betrayal: A Kate Hamilton Mystery: Berry, Connie: 9781643855943: Amazon.com: Books</a></p><p><b>Indiebound</b>: <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781643855943">The Art of Betrayal: A Kate Hamilton Mystery | IndieBound.org</a></p><p><b>Website</b>: <a href="http://www.connieberry.com">www.connieberry.com</a></p><p><b>Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</b></p><p>Connie: Like many, probably most, authors, I’ve been writing all my life. As a child, I wrote and illustrated my own stories. Interestingly, most of them contain a mystery although not a murder. My fascination with books and reading came from my mother, who’d been a teacher. She read to me every day and brought the words on the page to life by adopting different voices for the characters. In junior high, while wandering the stacks in my local library, I discovered P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, and the other writers of mystery’s Golden Age. I was hooked on books set in the UK and especially on mysteries.</p><p>As an adult I wrote academically and for business. I also did a lot of editing for others. My teaching career required me to prepare a fifty-minute lecture each week, so that required writing as well. When I retired from that job, I decided it was now or never. I’d pursue the dream that had been lurking in the back of my head for decades—writing a mystery. I wish I could say it was easy. That first book was written and rewritten over a period of almost ten years.</p><p><b>Is this your first book?</b></p><p>Connie: No, The Art of Betrayal is the third in the Kate Hamilton Mystery series. One of the joys of writing a series is the opportunity to follow characters over an extended period of time. They learn, grow, change, adapt. Sometimes they make mistakes and have to pay for them. They fall and have to get back up and go on. I recently moderated a panel of historical mystery writers, and the participants all said that as you write multiple books, you learn to write faster. I still waiting for that to happen. </p><p><b>With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</b></p><p>Connie: From the beginning, my goal was to be traditionally published. That’s certainly not the only path, nor is it necessarily the best path for a writer to take. But being traditionally published does give you a certain standing in the writing community. Your book is eligible for industry prizes, for example, like the Agatha Awards, the Lefty Awards, The Edgars. My first novel, A Dream of Death, won the IPPY Gold Medal for Mystery and was a finalist for the Agatha Best Debut.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm5SsKd4bH8FiTXXOkgYEueh3KeWmz1BVnybgI33GmLZ3SyL74E5AkeoqaMGBrNO2nUwpo9BHxJY1rx4ovB9pfeDHgR7g6HxCrVS_UR9EYs3w9uU0_yUw-_dmo8A1-lS8O8ZpSEI5LqFk/s2048/The+Art+of+Betrayal+Cover+Final.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm5SsKd4bH8FiTXXOkgYEueh3KeWmz1BVnybgI33GmLZ3SyL74E5AkeoqaMGBrNO2nUwpo9BHxJY1rx4ovB9pfeDHgR7g6HxCrVS_UR9EYs3w9uU0_yUw-_dmo8A1-lS8O8ZpSEI5LqFk/s320/The+Art+of+Betrayal+Cover+Final.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p>Being traditionally published also provides some support in the way of publicity and marketing. Plus the distribution is handled. Some authors love the business-end of publishing. They’re great at social media and love having their finger on every stage in the process. Other authors (like me) just want to write. I’m glad I don’t have to worry about printing costs, cover design, and distribution. </p><p><b>Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</b></p><p>Connie: My story isn’t typical. As I said, getting published took me almost ten years. That in itself isn’t unusual. Many writers have a similar story. For me, a lot of that time was spent learning craft. Although writing has always been one of my top skills, and in spite of the fact that I had a graduate degree in English Literature and had read literally thousands of mystery novels, I didn’t have a clue how to produce a good story. I had to learn, and one of the best ways to learn is by making mistakes. I made plenty of them. </p><p>During those years I did a few good things, though. One was reading a wonderful book on craft—Don’t Sabotage Your Submission by Chris Roerden. Another was joining writers’ organizations such as Sisters in Crime, Guppies, and Mystery Writers of America. These groups offer valuable opportunities to learn and receive feedback. The problem is, you have to listen. Some of the advice I was given meant major revisions. I dug my heels in and kept trying to polish my words. Finally in the fall of 2017, I decided to do a final, massive revision that involved changing from third to first person, eliminating all but one POV, and cutting out several characters and an entire story line. I finished that revision on January 1, 2018. In February, I went to the SleuthFest Conference in Florida and met my editor at Crooked Lane. She offered me a two-book contract. I got an agent, signed on the dotted line, and that was that. </p><p><b>What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</b></p><p>Connie: I learned that my publishing journey is unique. Even though the lead-up to publication was long, once I’d whipped my story into publishable form, the contract came quickly. That rarely happens. </p><p>What I’ve learned about the publishing business as a whole is no secret. Publishing is profit-driven—period, end of story. Publishers want to sell books; they need to sell books; and that requires exposure. You might have the most beautifully written book in decades, but if no one knows you and if no one hears about your book, it may languish near the bottom of the all-important Amazon rankings. That’s why it’s so important for aspiring writers to make connections in the writing and publishing world. If the ivory-tower days for writers ever existed, they certainly don’t anymore. I love the saying I heard first at Malice Domestic, the annual mystery fan conference that takes place near Washington, D.C.: “No one must fail so that I can succeed.” Writers don’t compete against each other. We support each other and promote writers we know and respect. Jump in and make friends.</p><p><b>Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</b></p><p>Connie: Oh, yes. Writers need to know, however, that publishing traditionally will take time—lots of time. For most people, that means a long query process, first for an agent, then a publisher. After that, the process of editing can take many months. I signed my first contract with Crooked Lane in March of 2018. A Dream of Death was published in April of 2019. That’s more than a year. There was a lot to be done besides editing. A book design had to be chosen, then the cover art and back cover copy produced. ARCs were sent out to solicit reviews and endorsements. I had to have an official author photo taken and write my author bio. I honestly had no idea all that went into producing a book. </p><p><b>What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?</b></p><p>Connie: I love this question because I wish someone had given me this advice when I was starting out. My best advice is four-fold:</p><p>1. Begin writing as early as you can. In my case, my teaching career was so intense I didn’t have time to focus on outside projects. But many people can. If you can mark off time during the day—or even just on the weekends—write, write, write.</p><p>2. Read widely—in your genre and outside. This trains your eye and your ear to recognize excellent writing. Notice how successful authors construct scenes, how they develop character, setting, and plot.</p><p>3. Take the time necessary to learn craft. Check out available resources such as classes, seminars, and workshops. Don’t be too quick to throw out queries. You usually get one shot. Don’t waste it. Listen to the advice of those who’ve gone before you. You aren’t required to take that advice, of course, but do listen. Be willing to make changes.</p><p>4. Join writing groups in your genre (MWA, SinC, RWA, SFWA, Authors Guild, CFWA). Attend conferences if you can afford it. Make connections with other writers, both published and unpublished. They will become your advocates and encouragers.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p> </p>Mayra Calvanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01444333264952371471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-27334984188874245022021-04-26T08:55:00.004-07:002021-04-26T08:55:58.523-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Amy Rivers, Author of COMPLICIT <p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdjFSjbxMmu20jMTq8GROQdSw3VxYQplZ4O3cdflFXY30nrY1CHynyRmJ0ojMKVKbTDzw4EiLF9nm9qvPr2ZDnDxNBsXZ3-ZLMCby3Jb_4HvTIX8fZ_4RC0JKjQiVj6RJgtEoka8KTv8/s2048/Cover+Art.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1368" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhdjFSjbxMmu20jMTq8GROQdSw3VxYQplZ4O3cdflFXY30nrY1CHynyRmJ0ojMKVKbTDzw4EiLF9nm9qvPr2ZDnDxNBsXZ3-ZLMCby3Jb_4HvTIX8fZ_4RC0JKjQiVj6RJgtEoka8KTv8/s320/Cover+Art.jpg" /></a></b></div><b><br /><br />Name</b>: Amy Rivers<p></p><p><b>Book Title</b>: Complicit</p><p><b>Genre</b>: Psychological Suspense</p><p><b>Publisher</b>: Compathy Press</p><p>Find out more <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Complicit-Legacy-Silence-Book-1-ebook/dp/B08NZ381CV">HERE</a>.</p><p><b>Website</b>: <a href="http://www.amyrivers.com">www.amyrivers.com</a></p><p><b>Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</b></p><p>Author: I’ve always loved writing. As a former director for a sexual assault program, I developed a passion for violence prevention and social justice. After moving to Colorado, I had an opportunity to write full time and I began writing stories about women and the things that they juggle in life. As a voracious reader of crime fiction, it seemed natural to mingle women’s narratives with some of the harder social justice topics. </p><p><b>Is this your first book?</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9KzZWuxQtO0rNxsnjKnjre9OKUtqlFr5AQejMIoj5uZJlxBMVcL6OklifUS7NfnoUF6H8uHkMFhQPErjyMvYGYpl_7-lXMExXkVrWTD_xXZ0pIIuRVVEbKWNvioXRVlDiyaeN_vS1j4/s2048/RiversA18-42RT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1363" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN9KzZWuxQtO0rNxsnjKnjre9OKUtqlFr5AQejMIoj5uZJlxBMVcL6OklifUS7NfnoUF6H8uHkMFhQPErjyMvYGYpl_7-lXMExXkVrWTD_xXZ0pIIuRVVEbKWNvioXRVlDiyaeN_vS1j4/s320/RiversA18-42RT.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p>Author: No, this is my fourth novel. It is the first book in a series featuring forensic psychologist, Kate Medina. </p><p><b>With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</b></p><p>Author: I worked with a small press for my first two novels, before deciding to self-publish. Complicit is the second book I’ve self-published under my imprint Company Press. </p><p><b>Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</b></p><p>Author: My first published piece was an essay in a Chicken Soup book. When I started writing novels, I was in a rush like most emerging authors. I wrote my NaNoWriMo project at the end of November and was ready to send it to print in December. Thankfully, the process of revision slowed me down and the reality of pitching was a shot of much needed perspective. I went through all the paces—pitches, queries, rejections—and eventually published my first two women’s fiction novels with a small press. </p><p>That first experience taught me many lessons about what happens when you sacrifice control of your work for the sake of having a publisher. And when I wrote my first suspense novel, All The Broken People, I was determined to get an agent, sell it to a big publisher, and become a New York Times Bestseller. Then, at a conference, the keynote asked me why I didn’t self-publish. And I didn’t have an answer. Up to that point, I’d been allowing myself to be carried on the current of advice, publishing industry standards, and a healthy dose of fear. Until then, I hadn’t considered that my fear of “failing” wasn’t even related to my own work or career. </p><p>I had a long talk with myself, established actual goals based on my life and what I wanted to accomplish through my writing, and I decided that self-publishing was actually the best choice for me. It’s a ton of work, but I have a background in marketing and business, so part of what usually scares authors away is not terrifying to me. But I did decide that if I was going to self-publish, I was going to do it as if I were a traditional publisher in terms of hiring professionals who could help me do everything well. Editors. Book cover designers. Publicists. </p><p>So, I’ve chosen self-publishing, but I am surrounding myself with amazing people who will help me get my stories into the hands of readers in as polished and professional a manner as I can. </p><p><b>What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</b></p><p>Author: I’ve learned so much I could write a book about it and still keep on learning. My two main takeaways, though, are this. First, self-publishing is a lot of work. If you’re looking at self-publishing as a way to avoid rejection or negative feedback, you’re in the wrong place. Self-publishing is a great way to maintain control of your creative works and guarantee that you get to tell the story you want to tell, but it takes dedication, ingenuity, and lots of hard work. Second, no author is an island. You know the stories we hear about authors working in isolation and magically turning out brilliant, bestselling works while avoiding contact with the outside world? Well, those stories are a myth (until you reach Stephen King fame maybe). Regardless of the publishing method you’ve chosen, authors these days should expect to do some of the work related to get their book out in the world. As a self-published author, you are responsible for all the work and unless you have endless financial resources and a whole lot of coffee, you’ll probably need some help with editing, distribution, promotion, and other business-y things. And that’s ok. As it turns out, there are wonderful people in the outside world and it’s also where your readers live. Embrace it. </p><p><b>Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</b></p><p>Author: I would recommend that every author take an honest look at their goals and make informed decisions about their publishing journey. Self-publishing is absolutely the right choice for me and it is probably the right choice for many others, but I can’t stress enough how important it is to have all the facts before moving forward. </p><p><b>What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?</b></p><p>Author: Keep writing! A lot of people want to be authors but finishing a book and then doing all the work to get it out in the world is an arduous process. It’s totally worth it but you have to keep going. When you finish one project, start the next one. </p><p style="text-align: center;">//////////////</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>About the book:</b></p><p>A tangled web of deception and duplicity where predators are shielded by respectability and no one is safe.</p><p>Kate Medina had been working as a forensic psychologist and loving every minute until a violent attack left her shaken to the core. She’s retreated to her hometown where it’s safe, accepting a job where the prospect of violence is slim to none. As a high school psychologist, Kate tends to the emotional needs of the youth. It’s not the career she envisioned.</p><p>Five years later, a student disappears, leaving the school in crisis. Roman Aguilar, the lead detective, reaches out to Kate for assistance. Kate’s position at the school and her training make her an ideal ally, but her complicated relationship with Roman puts them at odds. </p><p>When the girl’s body is found, changing the focus of the investigation to homicide, Kate finds herself in the middle of a situation she never anticipated. What started as her desire to help puts Kate directly in the crosshairs of an enemy who remains largely in shadow. As her past and present collide, Kate is dragged into the middle of a dangerous game where only one thing is clear—no one can be trusted. </p><p><br /></p>Mayra Calvanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01444333264952371471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-44924837149609946482020-11-16T21:00:00.001-08:002020-11-16T21:00:05.892-08:00Book Publishing Secrets with Evy Journey @eholychair #books #bookpublishing<p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp1BaOo5JAp35lme9sBgppB0c7RgK44chhWX4aSgI9faIbvTAazlzbceFFuaFkHg9m35BHvedR7s13gf64FtSGfh5X2D58NyZ7_oEJCdSejT1ANFXX_eQs0nphkDPnpQzPbE0s2bKrkRI/s600/Evy+Journey.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp1BaOo5JAp35lme9sBgppB0c7RgK44chhWX4aSgI9faIbvTAazlzbceFFuaFkHg9m35BHvedR7s13gf64FtSGfh5X2D58NyZ7_oEJCdSejT1ANFXX_eQs0nphkDPnpQzPbE0s2bKrkRI/s320/Evy+Journey.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Evy Journey, SPR (Self Publishing Review) Independent Woman Author awardee, is a writer, a wannabe artist, and a flâneuse who, wishes she lives in Paris where people have perfected the art of aimless roaming. Armed with a Ph.D., she used to research and help develop mental health programs.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She’s a writer because beautiful prose seduces her and existential angst continues to plague her despite such preoccupations having gone out of fashion. She takes occasional refuge by invoking the spirit of Jane Austen to spin tales of love, loss, and finding one’s way—stories into which she weaves mystery or intrigue.</span></p><h3 align="center" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d3e50; font-family: helvetica_condensedmedium; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">WEBSITE & SOCIAL LINKS:</span></h3><h3 align="center" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #2d3e50; font-family: helvetica_condensedmedium; font-weight: 300; line-height: 1.1; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://evyjourney.net/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #02004c; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">WEBSITE</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/eholychair" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #02004c; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">TWITTER</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Thoughtful-Womans-Romance-Novels/382436745126631" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #02004c; outline: none medium !important; text-decoration-line: none;">FACEBOOK</a></span></h3><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s1600/banner+123.png" style="color: #444444; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="118" data-original-width="426" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLXSduxO17aNNIvj1kjOc4eRiPnkjjNIJAstXesf2IyAc1dd6V6b1luajHVOzeaOkmP0R2puzUvPL9C3qj2va9WI3UesRJeerDSZQMYBYLCDNNZRT1PYIv3MwJLTFcN-b_zC4umSFexY8/s320/banner+123.png" style="background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="320" /></a></div><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWcOs1I2dnaqviGecqblUmId9zR72uJjc9jdpp2aiG4HZzBNyo_Y6I9WIBEvds-T_Yka-B7KNG93vdfibojTrfQSCHcMTzJiw4K0vVT-GGHf8LccggosA636G_N74iasf0xQfI4l0Se00/s595/The+Shade+Under+the+Mango+Tree+cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="595" data-original-width="385" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWcOs1I2dnaqviGecqblUmId9zR72uJjc9jdpp2aiG4HZzBNyo_Y6I9WIBEvds-T_Yka-B7KNG93vdfibojTrfQSCHcMTzJiw4K0vVT-GGHf8LccggosA636G_N74iasf0xQfI4l0Se00/w259-h400/The+Shade+Under+the+Mango+Tree+cover.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">After two heartbreaking losses, Luna wants adventure. Something and somewhere very different from the affluent, sheltered home in California and Hawaii where she grew up. An adventure in which she can also make some difference. She ends up in place where she gets more than she bargained for.</span><p></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Lucien, a worldly, well-traveled young architect, finds a stranger’s journal at a café. He has qualms and pangs of guilt about reading it. But they don’t stop him. His decision to go on reading changes his life.</span></p><p style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9); box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Months later, they meet at a bookstore where Luna works and which Lucien frequents. Fascinated by his stories and his adventurous spirit, Luna volunteers for the Peace Corps. Assigned to Cambodia, she lives with a family whose parents are survivors of the Khmer Rouge genocide forty years earlier. What she goes through in a rural rice-growing village defies anything she could have imagined. 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answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having
you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Evy: I did a lot of “academic”
writing as a social science researcher. I guess I needed a respite from the
rigid rules of that type of writing. Fiction-writing has been an antidote. T<i>he
Shade Under the Mango Tree</i> is my sixth novel. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Is this your first book?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Evy: It’s my sixth novel and my
seventh fiction book. I have a short collection of my short stories and a short
story in a collection some other authors put together.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">With this particular book,
how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you
choose this method?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Evy: In the beginning, I
submitted to trad publishing. But it seemed to me they had “rules” I couldn’t
follow since I usually write cross-genre. I wanted to maintain my independence,
to some extent anyway. So: self-publishing. Still, I pay good, thoughtful
attention to what my developmental editors tell me. They and beta readers have
been a great help in shaping my stories.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Can you tell us a little
about your publishing journey?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pros
and cons?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Evy: For me, independence means
an awful lot of work in the writing and publishing process. Part of it is
because I’m obsessive-compulsive about my writing. But publishing doesn’t
equate to getting read. Promotion and marketing is where I fall apart. But I
keep trying.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">What lessons do you feel you
learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing
industry as a whole?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Evy: As I’ve said
above—publishing<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>doesn’t equate to
getting read.-If someone out there will take on the bigger chunk of promoting
my books and charge me a reasonable fee for it, let’s connect. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">My view on the publishing
industry? It’s a business. Money is their be-all and end-all. It’s fortunate
for us, readers, that there are great writers they do publish.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">Would you recommend this
method of publishing to other authors?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Evy: If you like to be independent,
are willing to work, and take the boring with the exciting, go for it. If you
love or are adept at promoting, much better.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">What’s the best advice you
can give to aspiring authors?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal;">Evy: Money-wise, prepare to be
disappointed. By that criterion, maybe 10% or less of the thousands upon
thousands of books published every year make it. If you publish because you
have to write, then you’ve won half the battle of fulfilling your dreams. Enjoy
that book in your hand with your name on it. The feeling can be quite heady.<o:p></o:p></span></p><br /></div></div></h3>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-50020466039477833902020-10-21T05:59:00.007-07:002020-10-21T05:59:52.514-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Joan Schweighardt, Author of 'River Aria' <p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-4Bn9dBT_6FB5ljuBmOHTkLRV7PFcK2lyE2FLykxNI3xFTgEgyeHBykWpr0316-UsNxai_VG_IMp6a8fuuTUCEDVJ55dqPUmN5eprLKn8y4D3YiU3h2yIP0PeLJNcLnLTwVC-5cKr2E/s1210/DSC_0197.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: right;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1210" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS-4Bn9dBT_6FB5ljuBmOHTkLRV7PFcK2lyE2FLykxNI3xFTgEgyeHBykWpr0316-UsNxai_VG_IMp6a8fuuTUCEDVJ55dqPUmN5eprLKn8y4D3YiU3h2yIP0PeLJNcLnLTwVC-5cKr2E/s320/DSC_0197.jpeg" /></a></b></div><b><br /><br />Name</b>: Joan Schweighardt<p></p><p><b>Title</b>: River Aria</p><p><b>Genre</b>: Historical Fiction</p><p><b>Publisher</b>: Five Directions Press</p><p>Buy now from <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08KH8DTS3?pf_rd_r=AT2R4WSYY7XGMP91STVV&pf_rd_p=edaba0ee-c2fe-4124-9f5d-b31d6b1bfbee">Amazon</a></p><p><b>Website</b>: <a href="http://www.joanschweighardt.com">www.joanschweighardt.com</a></p><p><b>Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published, Joan! Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book.</b></p><p>Author: I decided to become an author a long time ago now, so it’s hard to remember all the relevant factors. But I can say this: I was really shy as a kid, and I had no confidence in myself at all. If an adult asked me a question, I froze and could not answer. But I realized early on that I was skilled at writing, and when I saw that writing enabled me to have a voice without actually having to open my mouth, I latched onto it and I stayed there.</p><p><b>Is this your first book?</b></p><p>Author: No, this is my ninth if you don’t count a couple of children’s books and some books I’ve ghostwritten for clients.</p><p><b>With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</b></p><p>Author: Five Directions Press is a “by invitation only” publishing co-op. I feel very fortunate to be with them. As you might guess, the idea of a co-op is that everyone pitches in to ensure that each author’s book is as good as it can be. Decisions about what books to publish are based not on what the founders feel is likely to be a big commercial success but on their collective idea of what makes a great read. All the authors at Five Directions are talented storytellers. I’m pleased to be in their company.</p><p><b>Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_KiwkE11KOEvocSCG-vvlLJuHYoia_4AkpJjGb841vGCKXPd1dRvhkrpBveogt23Mb7wCsdUNjOBTE1zRPbL5Z4ed5PmdD6Sdgc9aUZJdmP1SUbjq1enY1Twm7gayyBcMqDeINZyUuPg/s1280/River-Aria1800x2700.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="853" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_KiwkE11KOEvocSCG-vvlLJuHYoia_4AkpJjGb841vGCKXPd1dRvhkrpBveogt23Mb7wCsdUNjOBTE1zRPbL5Z4ed5PmdD6Sdgc9aUZJdmP1SUbjq1enY1Twm7gayyBcMqDeINZyUuPg/s320/River-Aria1800x2700.jpeg" /></a></b></div><p></p><p>Author: Over the years I’ve had books published by a array of small to mid-size presses. I was with my first publisher for three contemporary novels, but they didn’t publish historical fiction, so when I wrote my first historical I had to find another publisher. My second publisher was great, but they didn’t publish memoir, so I found a third publisher. That’s pretty much the way it has gone throughout my writing career. I’m happy to have had multiple publishing experiences.</p><p><b>What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</b></p><p>Author: Back when my first few novels were published, in the late nineties, there were only two publishing options. Either you were published by a traditional press or by a vanity press. This was before the digital age and before the technologies that support books on demand. If you couldn’t find a publishing team that thought your book was really worthy and you didn’t have the money (and back then you would have needed a lot of it) to pay a vanity company, you just didn’t get published. I was very fortunate to have a traditional publisher. Now the industry has changed and there are many small publisher options that sit in the gray area between traditional and vanity. And because it’s possible to market your book yourself online, there is even the option of self publishing. Anyone who wants to get published can, but of course driving traffic to your book is about 400 times more challenging that it was back in the old days.</p><p><b>Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</b></p><p>Author: I would tell emerging authors to explore their options. Ask questions. Will the publisher you’re talking to provide sufficient editing and proofreading? Will they do marketing? If so, what exactly and for how long? What percentage of retail sales will you receive? Will they pay to enter your books in appropriate contests, or will you have to do that yourself? And don’t be afraid to make deals. If you have six thousand friends on social media, maybe you can suggest they up your profit percentage. If that’s contrary to their business plan, maybe they can think of another way to compensate you, such as overseeing contest entries.</p><p><b>What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?</b></p><p>Author: This is probably a very common answer, but it’s the best advice I can offer: polish your work. Read it over and over again for content; if you find there is a particular chapter that you don’t feel like rereading, ask yourself why. Get others to read your work too, people who are writers, or at least good readers who will give you honest opinions. If you don’t like their suggestions for changes immediately, wait some. Some suggestions may be wrong for your book, but others may be spot-on—once you’ve taken the time to think about them for a while. I almost always chafe when someone tells me something I’ve written isn’t working. But then I sleep on it—for weeks sometimes—and I often begin to see that they are right. And proofread, and when you are done, have others proofread. Or, if you can afford it, pay a professional proofreader to give it a sweep. </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;">ABOUT 'RIVER ARIA'</span></b></p><p>River Aria is narrated by Estela Hopper, who, as a ten-year-old girl living in the impoverished fishing village of Manaus, Brazil in the early 20th century, is offered a twist-of-fate opportunity to study opera with an esteemed voice instructor. During her years of instruction, Estela, who is talented, passionate and dramatic by nature, dreams of leaving Brazil to perform in New York. But as her beloved instructor is not able to convince the managers of the great Metropolitan Opera that they should bring on a mixed-race immigrant who grew up on the banks of the Amazon River to become an elite performer, Estela accepts what they do offer, a position in the sewing room, and leaves Brazil on a ship with her cousin JoJo in the year 1928.</p><p>The challenges that befall Estela and JoJo in New York are plentiful. Estela’s father, an Irish American who came to her village nearly twenty years earlier (at which time she was conceived), has a plan for what her life should look like once she is settled. Her relationship with JoJo changes drastically when he learns he was lied to about his own parentage, and again when he takes a dangerous job working for the owner of a speakeasy. And of course her personal challenges of finding some modicum of success in a place like New York are not only enormous but crushing to her once robust sense of self.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Check out the complete series at <a href="http://www.joanschweighardt.com">www.joanschweighardt.com</a></span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></p>Mayra Calvanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01444333264952371471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-50753953324829247472020-07-10T01:10:00.002-07:002020-07-10T01:10:55.871-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Memoirist Marilea C. Rabasa<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipooCYPjKXN1HW9yUXKdjapWwmjB2bjBTekhf8wRdZzpai1LfrCL53R4TFkPX-AHbGhgNJ2yI0D6StsCwSjbZsak4yBjGkq2Qd_NWmlBelq6tCjubmImX5mYLEMPtaf5H7zIh6g3Ymt3M/s319/Author+Headshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="319" data-original-width="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipooCYPjKXN1HW9yUXKdjapWwmjB2bjBTekhf8wRdZzpai1LfrCL53R4TFkPX-AHbGhgNJ2yI0D6StsCwSjbZsak4yBjGkq2Qd_NWmlBelq6tCjubmImX5mYLEMPtaf5H7zIh6g3Ymt3M/s0/Author+Headshot.jpg" /></a></b></div><b>Name</b>: Marilea C. Rabasa<o:p></o:p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Book Title</b>: <i>Stepping Stones: A Memoir of Addiction, Loss, and Transformation</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Genre</b>: memoir<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Publisher</b>: She Writes Press<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Website</b>: <a href="http://www.recoveryofthespirit.com">www.recoveryofthespirit.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><b>Thank you for your time in answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Marilea: Writing is a tool I have used all my life to try and make sense of some of the things that had been happening to me. My diaries go back to when I was a child. Whenever I am distressed about something, I write about it. Putting my thoughts on paper usually helps me to arrive at some form of clarity. And now I share my thoughts with others, another important part of the process. Other people are critical mirrors to help me take in valuable perspectives on what’s going on. Take in…and consider. There is much that I don’t know, and accepting help from others is an important part of the healing process. It’s also an important part of the writing process. I would be lost without all the great editors who have helped me shape my books.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">When I wrote my first book six years ago, I had been dealing with losing my daughter to the hellish world of heroin addiction. It was the biggest challenge I had ever faced in my life, and so, as I had always done before, I decided to write about it. My writing started out as an angry rant, but over time evolved into a powerful memoir, one full of self-discovery.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Life keeps happening, doesn’t it, and I realized that my first “memoir of recovery” wasn’t quite finished. I still had more substance use issues to face that I hadn’t dealt with in my first book. Throughout my battle to save my daughter, my emotional pain found relief, just as my father’s had many years before this, in a bottle. So <i>Stepping Stones</i> is really a sequel to my first memoir, though the focus is on me and not my daughter. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I wrote it to try and heal from the alcoholism that was threatening me. I’m hoping to gift my children and grandchildren with the salient lessons I have learned on how to live well and happily. I want to pay it forward for the next generation and make a difference where it most matters to me.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt;"><b>With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Marilea: I chose to publish with She Writes Press, which is a hybrid company in business for a while, with Brooke Warner at the helm. I chose SWP because of their first-rate reputation and their success rate with authors. Traditional publishing was not an option for me, and the small press I used with my first book was lacking in some areas, so SWP seemed like a nice compromise. It also vets potential authors carefully and that matters to me. Many small publishing houses will publish anything that crosses their desk. But She Writes Press is very discriminating, and publishing with them carries a certain amount of distinction.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><b>Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Marilea: It was all pretty straightforward. There was an early glitch that was easily resolved. My project manager and all the editors and hidden faces at She Writes Press were endlessly helpful and supportive. There’s also a well-thought-out timeline to get things done in a timely manner. They’re very organized at SWP. I think the most distinguishing factor in my mind is the thoroughness of their work, their willingness to do and redo the work until everyone—and not just the publisher—is satisfied with the end product. That takes professionalism, time, patience, and a determination to turn out their best product. I’m happy to be part of such a process, as well as its beneficiary.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><b>What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Marilea: The industry is changing. Traditional publishing is no longer the best way to go and fortunately there are many other options for writers who want to become authors. Brooke Warner and her team have written a handbook for all the authors which has been instrumental in educating us about parts of the industry we may not have known about. One thing that Brooke stressed to all of us is the importance of investing in some form of publicity campaign. There are simply too many books out there to choose from, and if we don’t make an effort to publicize what we write, few people will know about it. I learned to put my faith in the professionals and to avoid small skirmishes which might have been draining. My experience with She Writes Press has been a positive one, and I highly recommend them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><b>Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Marilea: Self-publishing? Absolutely! Many of us, myself included, have no other option. But do your research. There are many publishing houses to choose from, and a thorough search is necessary to find the best one for you. Something else I’ve learned, because there is a huge variety of self-publishing houses out there, is that you get what you pay for.</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><b>What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Marilea: Keep writing. Write every day. Be disciplined about it, like calisthenics, or healthy eating, or pruning your fruit trees. Don’t procrastinate. We always find time in life for things and people that matter to us, so if you want to be a writer, then write. Our daily routines and activities say everything about what is in our hearts and our minds. When writing is there, it becomes a natural and effortless part of our daily routine.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhb82NNwdUYRnWAishg52Q9LZJKLOTskOEMl4eTMp5p7uqKN0XCJGf2KGqaAtP_y2HHuybULbY6kEor7lmFUNznSlNXR8wrDIuAnDfcSOe1UhzonUpoTp5GMec0N-mxtYXEnPT_H9JwJA/s499/Stepping+Stones+-+Cover+Art-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="324" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhb82NNwdUYRnWAishg52Q9LZJKLOTskOEMl4eTMp5p7uqKN0XCJGf2KGqaAtP_y2HHuybULbY6kEor7lmFUNznSlNXR8wrDIuAnDfcSOe1UhzonUpoTp5GMec0N-mxtYXEnPT_H9JwJA/s320/Stepping+Stones+-+Cover+Art-1.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> </span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: 12pt;">About the Book</span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Addiction is a stealth predator. Unrecognized, it will grow and flourish. Unchecked, it destroys.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Marilea grew up in post-WWII Massachusetts in a family that lived comfortably and offered her every advantage. But there were closely guarded family secrets. Alcoholism reached back through several generations, and it was not openly discussed. Shame and stigma perpetuated the silence. Marilea became part of this ongoing tragedy.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Her story opens with the death of her mother. Though not an alcoholic, it is her inability to cope with the dysfunction in her life that sets her daughter up for a multitude of problems.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">We follow Marilea from an unhappy childhood, to her life overseas in the diplomatic service, to now, living on an island in Puget Sound. What happens in the intervening years is a compelling tale of travel, motherhood, substance use disorder, and heartbreaking loss. The constant thread throughout this story is the many faces and forms of addiction, stalking her like an obsessed lover, and with similar rewards. What, if anything, will free her of the masks she has worn all her life?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Read Marilea’s inspiring recovery story and learn how she wrestles with the demons that have plagued her. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div>Mayra Calvanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01444333264952371471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-3663423588485956632020-06-18T00:00:00.000-07:002020-06-18T00:00:14.167-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Rie Sheridan Rose @riesheridanrose #books #bookpublishing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rie Sheridan Rose multitasks. A lot. Her short stories appear in
numerous anthologies, including Nightmare Stalkers and Dream Walkers
Vols. 1 and 2, and Killing It Softly Vols. 1 and 2. She has authored
twelve novels, six poetry chapbooks, and lyrics for dozens of songs.
These were mostly written in conjunction with Marc Gunn, and can be
found on “Don’t Go Drinking with Hobbits” and “Pirates vs. Dragons” for
the most part–with a few scattered exceptions.<br />
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Her favorite work to date is The Conn-Mann Chronicles Steampunk
series with five books released so far: The Marvelous Mechanical Man,
The Nearly Notorious Nun, The Incredibly Irritating Irishman, The
Fiercely Formidable Fugitive, and The Elderly Earl’s Estate.<br />
Rie lives in Texas with her wonderful husband and several spoiled cat-children.<br />
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Website: <a href="https://riewriter.com/">https://riewriter.com/</a> and <a href="https://theconnmannchronicles.com/">https://theconnmannchronicles.com/</a><br />
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/RieSheridanRose">https://twitter.com/RieSheridanRose</a><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheConnMannChronicles/">https://www.facebook.com/TheConnMannChronicles/</a><br />
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The Marvelous Mechanical Man is the first book in a Steampunk series
featuring the adventures of Josephine Mann, an independent woman in need
of a way to pay her rent. She meets Professor Alistair Conn, in need of
a lab assistant, and a partnership is created that proves exciting
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Alistair’s prize invention is an automaton standing nine feet tall.
There’s a bit of a problem though…he can’t quite figure out how to make
it move. Jo just might be of help there. Then again, they might not get a
chance to find out, as the marvelous mechanical man goes missing.<br />
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Jo and Alistair find themselves in the middle of a whirlwind of
kidnapping, catnapping, and cross-country chases that involve airships,
trains, and a prototype steam car. With a little help from their
friends, Herbert Lattimer and Winifred Bond, plots are foiled,
inventions are perfected, and a good time is had by all.<br />
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answering our questions about getting published. Let’s begin by having
you explain to us why you decided to become an author and pen this book?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>Rie</span>: I don’t think there was ever any question in my mind that I
would eventually be an author.<span> </span>From the
time I knew what writing was, I wanted to do it. And share it with as many
people as possible. I know I was writing poetry by the third grade. Writing
this book was mostly a dare for National Novel Writing Month. My writing
partner suggested I do it—I think he was supposed to do one as well. I finished
mine. I’m still waiting for his.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>Rie</span>: No. By the time I wrote <i>The Marvelous Mechanical Man</i>,
I had at least four other novels in print—one of them completely re-written and
re-packaged to become a brand-new book basically—several poetry chapbooks and a
short story collection. This one WAS, however, the first time I actually
managed to write a sequel. There are now five books in the series, and a
spin-off on the way.</span></span></span></div>
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how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you
choose this method?</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>Rie</span>: Originally, it was published by a small press in Texas. I
chose this route because the publisher was a friend who asked to see the book
and was very supportive from the beginning. She did a lot to make the first
edition a success—including commissioning the gorgeous cover.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>Rie</span>: I think the biggest problem I had with the first edition
was that the publisher is probably more of a micro press. She does excellent
work, and is one of the best editors I know, but she has a stable of dozens of
authors. There was no way she could devote the same resources and time to my
book as I could. That’s just the reality of every press. Even the traditional
presses don’t offer every author the budget of say Stephen King. As an
independent author, I can try as many crazy ideas as I can pay for. And I’ve
come up with some doozies. The other problem with small presses is that it is hard
to maintain one. I’ve outlived probably a dozen including my first and second
publishers back in 2000 when I started.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>Rie</span>: I think the main thing I’ve learned from my publishing
journey is be flexible, and don’t take anything for granted. Publishers come
and go, and even if you are with one of the traditional houses you can be
dropped in a minute if your sales start to fall. It isn’t always a matter of
talent, either. It is sometimes a matter of luck. Knowing the right people;
being in the right place at the right time; making a successful pitch. You
never know what might be the piece that catapults you forward to the next level
of the journey. One thing I’ve always tried to remember—never burn a bridge.
Don’t badmouth other people along the way, or it might come back to haunt you
later.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>Rie</span>: I wouldn’t have self-published any of my novels if they
hadn’t been published by someone else first...until I got to Book Three of my
series, that is and stepped into uncharted waters—but by then there is a bit of
a following. Otherwise, I look for the validation that someone else is willing
to put resources into the project. I never wanted to publish my own work just
because it was the only way it would ever be done. Does that make sense? Except
poetry. Poetry is hard to find a publisher for. ;)</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span>Rie</span>: Never quit learning. Read books about writing and apply
what works for you. Research if you are writing about a place or time you
didn’t live through, or just having a character do something you don’t know how
to do yourself. Get feedback—don’t release a child into the world without
having several trusted beta readers to tell you what doesn’t work. Revise your
first draft. Almost no one is perfect out of the gate. Besides, revision is
where the fun starts. Now you know where you are going, you can polish the
story till it shines. (This works for any form—short, long, poetry...all of
them.)</span></span></span></div>
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My third novel, The Third Gift, will be released this summer, and I’m currently working on a fourth novel. I have also written four screenplays. I had an aunt who wrote murder mysteries and who was successful at it. I used to brag about having an aunt who was a writer—that seemed so cool to me. And though the idea of following in her footsteps was intriguing, I never cared for her genre. I was a huge William Faulkner fan, though, growing up, and I still am. After I read his last novel, The Reivers, and Harper Lee’s, To Kill a Mockingbird, I was hooked on writing. I think most southern writers—if not all southern writers—have been influenced by both these great authors, to some degree. And then came John Kennedy Toole’s, A Confederacy of Dunces. After I read this wonderful novel, there was no turning back.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">I went with an independent fiction publisher based in New York. I initially tried going the traditional route with a major publisher but had absolutely no luck with this. Unless you’re already an established author, it’s virtually impossible to get one of the big publishers to give you a look. I believe I read somewhere that the odds of this happening are 1/1000, but I think it’s much greater than that. There’s just too much competition out there for a big publisher to consider a new writer—even a very talented, new writer<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">There are always pros and cons about anything or anybody. The writing cons are: writing is hard, demanding, and time consuming—especially if you’re working another full-time job, as I currently am. I can’t even imagine how difficult it must be for a working mother to find the time to write! Writing is a lonely pursuit, and it costs money to get your book noticed by readers. Some people pay to have their book published. That wasn’t my choice, but I did pay an excellent publicist to help me get The Rising Place noticed. Writing is a cathartic, artistic endeavor, but it’s also a business. And, as in any business, you have to spend money to make money. So, find and hire a good publicist to help you sell your book. Even if you’re fortunate enough to have a major publisher take you on and promote your book, you still have to be willing to do whatever it takes to help promote it. With over 2000 new books being released worldwide every day, it’s unrealistic to think you can write a book, have it published by whomever, and that it will sell like COVID19 masks. Not this day and time.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgHt7Lgi8U-L464a_CIa0PtONYaBZMo8XQKnrlIGutHcFHRZoDI8IeP2QwYS_2DOCb5va3Ep-mwKuTtP8t1tBddn-ktjsPVzqpEVwj0ksx7kxZh6X1eDmyu-6BAVOh8YaReLz44p20ow/s2291/TheRisingPlace_w14312_ib.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2291" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgHt7Lgi8U-L464a_CIa0PtONYaBZMo8XQKnrlIGutHcFHRZoDI8IeP2QwYS_2DOCb5va3Ep-mwKuTtP8t1tBddn-ktjsPVzqpEVwj0ksx7kxZh6X1eDmyu-6BAVOh8YaReLz44p20ow/s320/TheRisingPlace_w14312_ib.jpg" /></a></i></div><i>Now to the pros: Like I said above, writing is a cathartic, artistic endeavor which can be one of the most—if not the most—rewarding experiences you will ever have. It can also be financially rewarding. If you have the talent, dedication, and discipline to endure in your writing and querying of an agent or publisher, you will probably succeed. And even if you don’t, you will be so much better off for simply having tried—sort of like that old saying, “Shoot for the moon, and if you miss, you’ll still be among the stars.” Corny, perhaps, but true. One more pro: When I write, I am literally “in the flow”—meaning, I’m basically oblivious to everyone and everything around me, except my story and my characters. Sometimes, I can sit at my laptop for eight or nine hours and be totally unaware of how long I’ve been writing. And I’m somehow able to get inside my characters heads and feel,</i><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">experience, what they’re doing</span></i><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"> </span></b><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">and saying. For me, this is a major turn-on. Nothing has ever done this for/to me, like writing has. Well, there was this young woman once, who….<o:p></o:p></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Unless you self-publish or pay a vanity press (I know, they really don’t like to be called that, anymore, but….) to publish your book, the publishing industry is a tough nut to crack. I compare it to trying to get into Harvard Law School or make it in Hollywood. Yes, it can be done, but it’s very hard to do so. That’s why dedication and discipline are so critical to a writer’s success. And you have to have tough skin—really tough skin. When I first started writing in the early 1980s (Yep, I’m an old dude.), there were no computers or emails. So, you hand-mailed query letters to potential agents and publishers. They usually wrote you back (there wasn’t as much competition, then, prior to the advent of self-publishing avenues, like Amazon), generally via a form, rejection letter. I received so many that I could tell if it was a rejection letter, just by examining the envelope. And you’ve heard this story before: I received so many rejection letters that they could have covered my bedroom walls. Funny, but also true. But this all was before the advent of a lot of small presses and independent publishers. I feel blessed to have found (or have been led to) an excellent and successful, Indie publisher, The Wild Rose Press.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Would you recommend this method of publishing to other authors?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Absolutely. Forget the big publisher route. Find a good, small publisher, or an Indie publisher with a successful track record, write a great query letter, and email it to them. It’s still challenging, to say the least, but this is the method I’d recommend. And don’t forget to find and hire a good, experienced publicist, like I did, once your manuscript is accepted. It’s never too early to find a good publicist. They’re in high demand and well worth the investment.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">What’s the best advice you can give to aspiring authors?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Write something every day. It’s like playing the piano or practicing your golf swing (both of which, I’ve never done well)—you have to just do it and keep on doing it. Also, be patient and never give up. And like Joseph Campbell once wrote: “Follow your bliss.” If you do, you’ll never be disappointed.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><br /></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";"><br /></span><b style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">About the book:</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">The Rising Place is an epistolary novel with an intriguing premise: What if you found a box of love letters written during World War II—would you read them? And what if you did read them and discovered an incredible story about unrequited love, betrayal, and murder that happened over seventy years ago in a small, southern town?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 12pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">A young lawyer moves to Hamilton, Mississippi and meets Emily Hodge, a 75-year-old spinster, shunned by Hamilton society. The lawyer is intrigued by her, though, and can’t understand why “Miss Emily” lives such a solitary and seemingly forgotten life. But the letters Emily leaves for him reveal how her choices caused her to be ostracized, though definitely not forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>Mayra Calvanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01444333264952371471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4146529997180836811.post-673590724017368812020-05-06T00:00:00.000-07:002020-05-06T00:00:00.140-07:00Book Publishing Secrets with Emilio Corsetti III @emiliocorsetti #books #bookpublishing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Emilio Corsetti III is a professional pilot and author. Emilio has
written for both regional and national publications including the
Chicago Tribune, Multimedia Producer, and Professional Pilot magazine.
Emilio’s first book <em><a href="http://35milesfromshore.com/">35 Miles From Shore: The Ditching and Rescue of ALM Flight 980</a></em>
tells the true story of an airline ditching in the Caribbean Sea and
the efforts to rescue those who survived. Emilio’s latest release <em>Scapegoat: A Flight Crew’s Journey from Heroes to Villains to Redemption</em>
tells the true story of an airline crew wrongly blamed for causing a
near-fatal accident and the captain’s decades-long battle to clear his
name. Emilio is a graduate of St. Louis University. He and his wife Lynn
reside in Dallas, TX.<br />
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WEBSITE & SOCIAL LINKS:</h3>
Website Address: <u><a href="https://www.emiliocorsetti.com/">https://www.EmilioCorsetti.com</a></u><br />
Blog: <u><a href="https://www.35milesfromshore.com/">https://www.35milesfromshore.com</a></u> (dedicated website)<br />
Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/EmilioCorsetti">https://twitter.com/EmilioCorsetti </a><br />
Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Emilio.Corsetti.III">https://www.facebook.com/Emilio.Corsetti.III </a><br />
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On May 2, 1970, a DC-9 jet departed New York’s JFK international
airport en route to the tropical island of St. Maarten. The flight ended
four hours and thirty-four minutes later in the shark-infested waters
of the Caribbean. The subsequent rescue of survivors involved the Coast
Guard, Navy, and Marines. In this gripping account of that fateful day,
author Emilio Corsetti puts the reader inside the cabin, the cockpit,
and the rescue helicopters as the crews struggle against the weather to
rescue the survivors who have only their life vests and a lone escape
chute to keep them afloat.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I wasted nearly three
years trying to find a traditional publisher. At the end of that three year
process the only offer I had was from a European publisher who offered me
$2,500. I turned down that offered and decided that I would bring the book to
market myself. I wish I would have done it sooner.</span></span></div>
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three formats: eBook, print, or audio.</span></span></div>
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most. Spend all of your effort in finding a literary agent. Give it a year or
maybe two. Then decide if you want the story to get out there or do you want it
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For many years, MaryAnn Kempher lived in Reno Nevada where most of
her stories are set. Her books are an entertaining mix of mystery and
humor. She lives in the Tampa Florida area with her husband, two
children, and a very snooty Chorkie.<br />
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AuthorMaryAnnKempher/">https://www.facebook.com/AuthorMaryAnnKempher/</a></div>
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What happens when your soul is bound to another before you were ever
born? Lonny and Roo have been best friends since they met in high school
in 1975 at the age of fourteen. Same last name, same birthdate, they
were attached at the hip; rarely was one seen without the other.
Together they navigate through their emotional high school years, but
nothing prepares the naive teenagers for the real world ahead of them.
Now on the cusp of their fiftieth birthday, Lonny finds Roo broke and
alone and convinces her to leave with him on a cross country road trip
from New York to Las Vegas, hoping to set her on a new path in life.
Told exclusively by Roo, follow the friends back and forth through their
unique relationship — experience the loss of innocence, career and life
choices that separate and unite them, and unspeakable events that
nearly destroy them. It’s a love only they understand, as well as the
unbreakable bond that forever ties them together. Is it possible they
are only capable of loving each other?<br />
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">A year before starting book
one, I’d retired from the US Air Force. Because my kids were still young, I was
staying home vs going back to work outside the home. I had time on my hands,
but writing a book wasn’t something I’d ever given any thought to until I’d
read an article on-line that got me to thinking. It took me nearly five years
from start to publication because I was treating writing as a hobby. Now, I
average nine to twelve months between books.</span></div>
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how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">This book was originally
published by a small publisher, but after a year I bought the rights back and
self-published.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">I’ve had ups and downs. All my
books have done relatively well. My first book made it into Amazon’s top 100.
However, it’s been hard to maintain that momentum. Having been published
traditionally and having self-published, I’ve found self-publishing to be the
best route for me. I like the control it gives me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">My respect for authors who do
really well has increased. This is because I know that no matter how much you
promote, it might not be enough. It’s not easy to become a bestselling author.
I’ve learned that a book that most people say is written terribly could still
be a bestseller while a book that is thought to be well-written might not sell
at all. That there is an element of luck to this business.</span></div>
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well-written, enjoyable book—don’t assume your job is done. Ensure the book is
professionally proofread and edited, and is given a professional looking cover.
As much as your budget allows—promote, promote, promote. </span></div>
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Elysia Strife is a self-published author of science-fiction fantasy and romance novels.</div>
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Adopted by two educators, Strife developed a
deep love for learning new things. In 2012, she graduated from Oregon
State University with two Bachelor’s Degrees in Public Health and Human
Sciences: Interior Design and Exercise Sport Science. Her past wears
fatigues, suits, and fitness gear, sprinkled with mascara and lace.</div>
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“I like to question everything, figure out
how things work, and do tasks myself. Experiencing new things is fun but
also helps with writing raw and genuine stories. And I’m always trying
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Strife likes the rumble of her project
car’s 350-ci V8. She enjoys the rush of snowboarding and riding ATVs on
the dunes. But nothing brings her more solace than camping in the
mountains where the stars are their brightest.</div>
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Strife enjoys connecting with readers and welcomes all feedback and questions.</div>
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Website: <a href="http://elstrife.com/">elstrife.com</a></div>
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Blog: <a href="https://elstrife.com/category/blog/">https://elstrife.com/category/blog/</a></div>
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Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ElysiaLStrife">https://twitter.com/ElysiaLStrife</a></div>
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Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/authorelstrife">https://www.facebook.com/authorelstrife</a></div>
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<br />A romantic-suspense novel featuring: miscarriage, hot co-workers, cybersecurity threats, and the <br />
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struggle of defining family.<br />
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With only an abusive mother-figure to guide her, Norah has learned
everything the hard way. An unexpected pregnancy with her fiancé changed
her career plans. But miscarriage and betrayal thrust everything in
reverse again. Eerie things start happening at work, and Norah finds
herself at the center of the investigation.<br />
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Secrets tumble forth from Norah’s father, her ex-fiancé, and the
mystery around her adoption, breaking the walls she’s put up to protect
her heart. Now, more than ever, she longs for trust, love, and a family
of her own.<br />
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Bonding with her handsome co-worker, Evan, and his teenage daughter,
Ashley, Norah gets a glimpse of cohesive family life. She finds herself
falling for Evan and becoming an unlikely source of help and
understanding for Ashley. Evan and Ashley have an empty seat at their
table, one Norah wishes to fill. Yet the guilt of taking the previous
woman’s place threatens to keep them apart.<br />
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Can Norah overcome the scars of her past and discover her inner
strength? And will the private letter from her father answer her
questions or destroy the family, and the man, she’s come to love?<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">I didn’t set out on this journey thinking, “I want to be an author.” I just had stories I wanted to share with others. A Promise in Ash was prompted by the feeling of emptiness and failure I experienced after a miscarriage. It developed into a full story after an interesting encounter with a woman as one of the RV parks we’ve stayed at over the years. Her tales inspired the book to become what it is today. I think it’s important to talk about miscarriage and abuse. The more we do, the less uncomfortable the topics become. I just felt like fiction was a gentler way to go about this than self-help. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">No, this is my 5th book. I’ve also written three sci-fi fantasies and one holiday romance.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">With this particular book, how did you publish – traditional, small press, Indie, etc. – and why did you choose this method?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">I’m a self-publisher by nature. I love learning how to do things, so it just seemed like the right fit: doing everything myself. But I also chose self-publishing because I didn’t think I was ready for querying, traditional agents, and contracts. It sounded more serious than I was prepared to dive into. I wanted to figure the system out before I put time and effort into queries.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Can you tell us a little about your publishing journey? The pros and cons?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">My first book was pretty rough the first time around. I’ve edited it a few times since and changed the cover. I’m finally happy with it, but it took a while. But lack of sales came down to a lack of marketing platform and knowledge of marketing in the beginning. I’m much better at it now, but it’s still hard to compete with the pros. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">I still like having total creative control. I design my covers too. This can be detrimental in the beginning when you have no idea what you’re doing. I know I’ve learned a lot, but sometimes I still feel like I’m just “winging it.” Eventually, you learn to trust your training and instincts, and then move on when a project is done. Getting bad reviews sucks. But even super famous books have them. So I figure if I get just a few great reviews, the book was a success. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">What lessons do you feel you learned about your particular publishing journey and about the publishing industry as a whole?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">There is a lot of competition. There will always be the top 100 books to read for the year. But I’ve read some fantastic books by indie authors with less than ten reviews. They’re great writers, but they aren’t included in the top 100 because of lack of discoverability. Indie publishing is great, but it’s led to market saturation. If you want to get readers’ eyes on your books, you have to advertise. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Traditional publishing is getting more competitive. It’s not just enough now to have a superb query letter and a polished manuscript. You have to have a social media following. Yep. I’ve seen people rejected for that very thing. A marketing platform is everything.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">I didn’t understand how to narrow down my audience in the beginning. I’m still working on it. But it’s not enough to search for readers in your genre. You have to focus on the subgenre and key interests. I’m finding this issue is surfacing again with my romance. I have a holiday romance and a dark contemporary romance, which I list as romantic suspense because there’s yet to be a subgenre for that. But readers of one book won’t like the other. The themes and content are too different. It’s frustrating to start over with a readership, but it’s important to acknowledge and respect how very particular some readers are. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Sure. I think it’s great to be able to say that you’re an author and have a physical copy of something to show others. People need to share their stories, whether true or fictional. With as much competition as there is now for traditional slots, I think indie authorship is a great alternative. Everybody has a story to tell, even if it’s just their memoir. When we share our ideas and concepts, we discover things about each other and humanity.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Be realistic, which I know is hard when you’re not really sure what you’re getting yourself into. Hopes and prayers aren’t enough to get your book done and seen. You have to be prepared to do a lot of work. Writing is hard. Editing is harder. Formatting is cake. The cover is the frosting; make it look darn pretty. Publishing is eating cake. Marketing is the hardest. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">You need a marketing plan before you publish. You need an author brand, at least in concept. You need to know who will support you, what the genre expectations are, and how to avoid all the amateur mistakes. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">You need to have conviction. Writing will only be one tiny facet of the business if you choose to become a full-time author. You’re going to spend a lot of money on ads and websites and programs—tons of stuff. Save your receipts. You won’t make a lot the first few years until you start to figure the system out. Don’t quit your day job if you can help it. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">Remember why you started writing. Remind yourself of this every day, so you don’t get discouraged. There are going to be chunks of time with no sales. You’re going to get bad reviews. Every author, even famous ones, get them. Don’t pull your book down. Don’t quit writing. You’re going to get better, but only if you don’t give up. </span></span></span></div>
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