So it begins …
Dear friends,
As I approach the end of my second novel, I’ve decided to begin a blog. Many authors blog about politics and art, culture and books, philosophy and genitalia, and whatnot. As Carl Sagan would say, there are beelions and beelions of blogs out there in the world—what are the odds that one of those blogs will contain life? Errh, forget that metaphor. What I mean to ask is—why should you waste precious minutes of your life reading my blog when you hate blogs or/and read too many blogs already? Email me if you have an answer to that.
Oh, here’s one possible reason: I’ve chosen a singular topic that may interest a few Goodreaders. I’m going to write about the process I follow to publish my novel. The ins & outs, ups & down, and side to sides. My successes & failures. You’ll get the unvarnished experience as it happens. Gradually. It will be the exquisite pleasure of watching paint dry.
I will place some hope in the theory that unpublished authors, self-published authors, those who might want to publish in the future, and those who are intrigued by the publishing process might find some value in the exposition. I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but perhaps even my stumbles will be useful. If this sounds interesting, please go to my profile and set your profile to "Follow" my reviews, and you should receive an email every time I post a new entry (along with any other author’s blogs you follow).
I promise—I will keep my posts fairly infrequent and rather concise. At least for me. Along the way, if you have any questions or suggestions, by all means, fire away.
Next up: My strategy
Ps. The word blog kind of makes me nauseas. Seriously.
As I approach the end of my second novel, I’ve decided to begin a blog. Many authors blog about politics and art, culture and books, philosophy and genitalia, and whatnot. As Carl Sagan would say, there are beelions and beelions of blogs out there in the world—what are the odds that one of those blogs will contain life? Errh, forget that metaphor. What I mean to ask is—why should you waste precious minutes of your life reading my blog when you hate blogs or/and read too many blogs already? Email me if you have an answer to that.
Oh, here’s one possible reason: I’ve chosen a singular topic that may interest a few Goodreaders. I’m going to write about the process I follow to publish my novel. The ins & outs, ups & down, and side to sides. My successes & failures. You’ll get the unvarnished experience as it happens. Gradually. It will be the exquisite pleasure of watching paint dry.
I will place some hope in the theory that unpublished authors, self-published authors, those who might want to publish in the future, and those who are intrigued by the publishing process might find some value in the exposition. I wouldn’t call myself an expert, but perhaps even my stumbles will be useful. If this sounds interesting, please go to my profile and set your profile to "Follow" my reviews, and you should receive an email every time I post a new entry (along with any other author’s blogs you follow).
I promise—I will keep my posts fairly infrequent and rather concise. At least for me. Along the way, if you have any questions or suggestions, by all means, fire away.
Next up: My strategy
Ps. The word blog kind of makes me nauseas. Seriously.
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Uggh. Good point. Maybe i'll blog about how much i hate vlogs.
Do you not have the same publisher as the Zamboni book?
Patrick - I self-published Zamboni. Not in the same way that many people now self-publish through companies like iUniverse (which is print-on-demand). Mine was an entirely self-guided process wherein i formed a company (called a Sole Proprietorship) called Bedhead Books. I essentially created my own publishing company in order to publish my book.I'll be getting more into talking about self-publishing versus finding a publisher in my blog, and i'm also going to talk about it as well in my next book review. (I'm catching up on the latest information about self-publishing in case i decide to go that route again.) Self-publishing is a lot more work than being published (and requires the author to manage everything from distribution to collecting payment). However, the odds are slim on finding a publisher. So...
Looking forward to your experiences, having been involved in small-scale publishing/self-publishing for a long time.
Of Doom
Author David David Katzman blogs about the process of completing and publishing his second novel.
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It's still better than it's video counterpart- the vlog. We really need to start thinking of better names for these things...