Category: Independent Publishing
Elephants Dancing in My Tummy: And The Angels Cried
I have a herd of elephants dancing in my tummy; my head aches and I am intermittently overcome by a wave of panic which starts at my toes and oozes from my fingers as I type; I’m not sleeping too well either. I’m not ill or on drugs – unless you count the medicinal Pinot [...]
Three Books in One Year
I have self-published three books this year. And in February, 2013 I intend to release one more. If you’d have told me this at the start of the 2012, I probably wouldn’t have believed you, but that was before I realized the process was so quick, simple, and inexpensive – compared to my expectations, that is. [...]
Deer in the Headlights: A Marketing Pro Self-Publishes
I should have known. In the passions of finally committing myself to the authorship of a book, one I knew from the beginning I would not shop with literary agents or publishing houses, I utterly failed myself in not treating my book, All That I Need, or Live Like a Dog With Its Head Out the [...]
QUEER GREER: From Self-Published to Indie Pubbed
I wrote my first novel, Queer Greer, in 2007. The arduous process of querying literary agents and publishers started the following year. Several dozen rejection letters later, I was not dissuaded from my belief that I had a publishable piece of work – only that, perhaps, the traditional publishing route was not the best way [...]
The Challenges of Self-Publishing – And Why I’d Do It Again
With a publisher, fame and fortune would certainly follow. Right? The idea for Found It: A Field Guide for Mom Entrepreneurs came to me in the night. Literally. At 2 AM, I raced to a lined yellow pad and each of the 51 chapters fell out of my head and onto the paper. Just like [...]
The Key to Selling Self-Published Books
Self-published authors face an uphill battle when it comes to marketing and selling our books. The stigma that self-published books face is a tough one to shed. And, to top it off, most of us don’t have much help promoting our books. So selling self-published books is a challenge. I have a Twitter account with [...]
The Many Lives of a Love Story: The Curiosity Cabinet
As a writer, you must fall in love with the idea of the book in your head. It’s hard to describe this process to anyone who hasn’t experienced it. It isn’t anything like the white heat of inspiration that new writers sometimes anticipate. So much of writing is perspiration rather than inspiration. But the idea of [...]
a heart offering: her white tree
She was telling me the story so I’d understand that my work was doing some good stuff. It mattered to her that I held this. And as I have trouble holding the idea that my words can touch like they do, I was paying careful attention. I wanted to hold it – I think more [...]
K. C. Hilton’s Publishing Journey for The Magic of Finkleton
Meet K.C. Hilton: In the writers world I’m known as K.C. Hilton. I recently self- published a children’s middle-grade fiction book titled The Magic of Finkleton. Several awesome reviews have been coming in from many readers, Kirkus Book Reviews, and ReviewTheBook.com. Reviews are like ‘gold’… and writers love the ‘gold’. Writing The Magic of Finkleton: I [...]
Published! Does it matter how?
“Wow!” Co-workers and acquaintances exclaim and ask when they see the print copy of my book. “You got published?” They ask. That question is hard for me to answer. I know they’re expecting to hear the name of a famous publishing house. Sometimes they ask, “Who published it?” That one is easier. I just smile [...]
