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The First Self-Published Book is Hard. Never Give Up

Photo by Nextvoyage from Pexels You don’t know what you don’t know. Keep going. Self-publish your book. Writing my first book almost broke me. I self-published. I believed that self-publishing would take the delay out of the process. I was wrong. Self-publishing added an overabundance of new non-writing related tasks that took time to learn to …

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Stop Your Writing From Being Unloved, Unseen and Unread

Image source: Pixabay Self-published writers must have a marketing plan. Self-published writers must develop and execute a marketing plan for their writing. This is no easy task. Traditionally published writing has a publishing team to handle the majority of the marketing. The self-published writer has only themselves. Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Snapchat, Twitter, Blogs, Podcasts, radio, broadcast …

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If You Are A “Control Freak”, Like Me, Then Self-Publishing Is For You

pixabay Every aspect of my book is under my control. I’m the decider. I am a control freak. I like to be the leader — the head person in charge. I want complete control of my book. There is a fairy tale about traditional publishing that haunts me. I’ve dreamed about it for a long time. I …

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Keep Your Day Job. Self-Publishing Is A Expensive Addiction

https://pixabay.com/en/burning-money-dollars-cash-flame-2113914/ Save yourself. It’s too late for me. A persistent myth about self-publishing is that it is inexpensive. That is a lie. If you think self-publishing your book will be cheap, think again. A tech-savvy person can learn to perform the tasks required to publish a book. Learning all those skills could take years. I’ve …

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