Dear New Author, While you grow excited as your publishing day comes near, I wanted to give you a small token of wisdom. Have something else in your life you are excited about waiting for you after you send your book into the ether. With so much build up, there can be an equally hard let down after. Not to be pessimistic but things can happen along this journey that can lead to absolute melt down. Formatting can go awry, you can discover a grammar error moments before loading it into the distribution que, or like me, you can take as long as you want to make it perfect and release day comes but the books arent loaded. You know what? Its okay. It will happen, it will go live, it will get read, and God willing be loved. Producing a quality product is essential. The ability to roll with the punches and know what to be concerned about and what to dismiss is just as vital. In the end, you wrote a friggen book. So before you hit that button, take a deep breath, and think of what you just accomplished. You are awesome. Now mark your calendars to meet Kathryn Falk and I along with an incredible group of people on May 17th in Dallas at the RT Convention for the RT Roundup! Fortune favors the prepared...
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:20:37 +0000
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