Self-publishing is damn hard work!

For all my brash enthusiasm for self-publishing, I'm beginning to discover the downside of it: distribution.It's a complete pain. I've just packaged up and sent off over 100 books to about 10 different addresses and I'm totally pooped. There's got to be an easier way. Tomorrow I'm phoning up Nationwide distributors and seeing if I can fob it off to them. Paper Plus has embraced my book but each shop is an individual franchise and you have to post small orders to each shop instead of to one central warehouse. So what started as a delightful gesture by Paper Plus Merivale to take on big quantities for sale has leapfrogged into a nationwide distribution nightmare with heaps of other Paper Pluses wanting copies too. Not that I'd ever want to look a gift horse...Meanwhile Whitcoulls is thinking about selling it into their stores. At least they have a central warehouse point. I don't think I was ever meant to be a postie. Give me a pen or a laptop any day.