Today, I would normally be boring you with formatting "stuff," or relaying various and sundry disputes over publishing versus self-publishing, but I stumbled over this blog from Anne R. Allen (author of Food and Love and The Gatsby Game, amongst others), whose site is recognized as one of the Best Writing Sites by Writer's Digest, which is saying something.
Anne writes about the "12 things not to do" when self-publishing, and I think her list is worthwhile reading for any newbie, or even any traditionally pubbed-author switching over to self-publishing for the first time. I am particularly fond of her advice for #1: don't publish your first novel before you've written your second.
I'd sit here and regurgitate everything she said, and make myself sound smart, but you should hop on over to her blog and read it in its original place and from its original author. I highly recommend this article (and don't skip over #3, her sage wisdom about ensuring that you use professional cover design and formatting!! ;-) You can read Anne's article, in full, here: How Not to Self-Publish: 12 Things for New Indies to Avoid
Thanks, and see you next time.
Thanks. I'm sharing this.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for the shout-out. The thing about writing another book is the one newbies hate to hear. We think that now we've finally finished the &*#! book, the next step SHOULD be publication. Because it took such a long, slow sloggy time to get it done. But the second one is usually easier. (Unless you're doing a bunch of marketing at the same time, which is why...well, you get it.)
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