Spunk--Is It in You?

 

 

Writing is the easy part. After 17 or 18 traditionally published books, I've pretty much got the writing part down pat.

Book design, cover art, layout, etc., are probably better left to the pros, but I can't afford pros, so I'm doing most of it myself, with the help of a generous ex-husband and a young artist friend who is giving me the "friend's mom discount" (that's his work, illustrating this post). 

Marketing the book will be the really difficult and expensive part; if you write it, readers won't automaticaly come. You have to, as Stromboli said to Pinocchio, "push it in the pooblic's eye." 

So here I am, at a freshly-minted sixty, embarking on a career as an author-publisher. 

 Sometimes I feel like the little Red Hen.