10 Things I Didn't Know About Being a Published Author
It doesn’t matter how much reading you do, how much planning, how much learning you do, until you put the wheels in motion you really have no idea what is going to work and what isn’t. And you really don’t understand what everything means until you are using it in the way it is intended. This is so true for being a published author. The biggest thing I’ve learned is that there is no one rule that fits everyone. Each person who is published or who publishes themselves will find the journey different. There are so many avenues available nowadays to get published that want-to-be authors really have to do their homework as to what works for them.
Here are ten (although I could make this list closer to thirty) things I didn’t know about being a published author:
1. That writing the book was the easy part. Who knew?
2. That once you are published the real work begins. I had to come up with a plan for what I wanted to do with my book. How was I going to market it? Where was I going to find my readers?
3. That formatting is a lot of work and it is very different if you are doing a paperback book versus an ebook. And then each type of ebook, depending on the company, requires a different layout to be done for their specific company.
4. That asking for help was easier than I thought and there is a huge community of authors willing to share.
5. That not everything has to be perfect, that although I read and learned and asked questions, until I was actually published, that’s when I really understood what it all meant. I have accepted that I will learn as I go.
6. That I would have to find that balance of marketing, networking, doing events, writing and having a life outside of my published one. It was really easy to get pulled in to feeling like I had to be everywhere at once. It’s important to choose a few things and make those work for you.
7. That to market my book effectively, I should have started marketing it several months before it was published.
8. That when I started to find my readers, the ones who love my book, that they would...
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Here are ten (although I could make this list closer to thirty) things I didn’t know about being a published author:
1. That writing the book was the easy part. Who knew?
2. That once you are published the real work begins. I had to come up with a plan for what I wanted to do with my book. How was I going to market it? Where was I going to find my readers?
3. That formatting is a lot of work and it is very different if you are doing a paperback book versus an ebook. And then each type of ebook, depending on the company, requires a different layout to be done for their specific company.
4. That asking for help was easier than I thought and there is a huge community of authors willing to share.
5. That not everything has to be perfect, that although I read and learned and asked questions, until I was actually published, that’s when I really understood what it all meant. I have accepted that I will learn as I go.
6. That I would have to find that balance of marketing, networking, doing events, writing and having a life outside of my published one. It was really easy to get pulled in to feeling like I had to be everywhere at once. It’s important to choose a few things and make those work for you.
7. That to market my book effectively, I should have started marketing it several months before it was published.
8. That when I started to find my readers, the ones who love my book, that they would...
To keep reading click here: http://wp.me/p2ydBl-hN
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