Erica, it's been good timing or luck but I never fail to either be entertained (100 Words!) or be instructed (on how to do/deal with going from an idea to getting the words in front of a reader), I'm glad you wrote this one. I hope you'll someday write editorials on the ins & outs of self-publishing.
You got it! I'm in the middle of self-publishing my 100 Word Stories into a collection that will hopefully come out either end of this year or early next and I'm documenting as much of that process as possible. I've got some things in the pipeline for sure!
I published a book during the heart of the pandemic. It was a bunch of articles I and others had written. We did an ebook via Amazon, and if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't.
Yeah, I did that too. I published a few books but then wanted to do a rebranding of myself so I took them all down. When I return to publishing at the end of this year it will be for good this time.
I'm sure you have it down way better than I did! Unfortunately, the labor-intensiveness really turned me away from wanting to do it again any time soon. Maybe there will be a "book consolidator" type LLM made just for us?
My dream is oddly specific: I want to sell 423 copies of something I've written (ideally a novel or novella, but it could be a story collection too). Why 423? Because it's one more than the number of copies sold by the writer played by John Cusack in 2012 of his book about a space shuttle crisis, "Farewell Atlantis." I figure if I can beat that guy, I'm good. :)
"I want to teach and influence through my own journey in storytelling. And with any luck be able to do this for the rest of my life." Love this quote. This is what I want, too.
I've been slowly collecting all my favorite (self-penned) short stories into an anthology. Not sure when it'll be done, but I know I want to be very proud of it when it does eventually go up for sale.
Interesting post, thoughtful. tbh, the tweet name made me think of Monty Python "Life of Brian" where a character had a very similar name. I may read the book, but not just yet as I simply don't have the time.
Erica, it's been good timing or luck but I never fail to either be entertained (100 Words!) or be instructed (on how to do/deal with going from an idea to getting the words in front of a reader), I'm glad you wrote this one. I hope you'll someday write editorials on the ins & outs of self-publishing.
You got it! I'm in the middle of self-publishing my 100 Word Stories into a collection that will hopefully come out either end of this year or early next and I'm documenting as much of that process as possible. I've got some things in the pipeline for sure!
I published a book during the heart of the pandemic. It was a bunch of articles I and others had written. We did an ebook via Amazon, and if I had it to do over again, I wouldn't.
Yeah, I did that too. I published a few books but then wanted to do a rebranding of myself so I took them all down. When I return to publishing at the end of this year it will be for good this time.
I'm sure you have it down way better than I did! Unfortunately, the labor-intensiveness really turned me away from wanting to do it again any time soon. Maybe there will be a "book consolidator" type LLM made just for us?
My dream is oddly specific: I want to sell 423 copies of something I've written (ideally a novel or novella, but it could be a story collection too). Why 423? Because it's one more than the number of copies sold by the writer played by John Cusack in 2012 of his book about a space shuttle crisis, "Farewell Atlantis." I figure if I can beat that guy, I'm good. :)
"I want to teach and influence through my own journey in storytelling. And with any luck be able to do this for the rest of my life." Love this quote. This is what I want, too.
I've been slowly collecting all my favorite (self-penned) short stories into an anthology. Not sure when it'll be done, but I know I want to be very proud of it when it does eventually go up for sale.
If you ever need any advice or help, let me know. I love working in Adobe InDesign for print books and I use Vellum for all my ebook formatting.
Thank you!
Already on it. I'm just about finished with one Novella (actually book 1 of a series.)
I have a second (Which is here on Substack) at 97 pages and 14k words or so. When it's done, I'll make it a second novella.
Encouraging positivity.
Interesting post, thoughtful. tbh, the tweet name made me think of Monty Python "Life of Brian" where a character had a very similar name. I may read the book, but not just yet as I simply don't have the time.
Thanks for reading it! Tremendous nail biting happening over here! lol