Whoopee put on your mukluks, grab your dancing fans, let's get a drummer because I've FINISHED Dancing! Well not exactly finished actually dancing, I'm off to do just that this weekend a musician friend is playing... what I meant is that the third and final book in my Alaskan memoirs has now been written!
So does that mean it will be on the shelves next week? Well unfortunately, no... you see now that the manuscript has been written, all 49 chapters of it, well now the REAL work begins. So get up lady and get organised.
So does that mean it will be on the shelves next week? Well unfortunately, no... you see now that the manuscript has been written, all 49 chapters of it, well now the REAL work begins. So get up lady and get organised.
So what is the real work? As I am a self published author rather than pass this completed manuscript over to the publishing house to "prepare Dancing on the Tundra for publication please", I now have to discuss the next steps of getting the book into your hands, with a variety of professionals. These professionals will help me with the next phases of the process; editing, proof reading, designing, copy writing,promoting, printing, distributing, ebook publishing, contacting book stores, libraries and of course, you my gentle listeners and readers know...
So how do I know who to contact? Well that is a book on its own. Everyone it seems, has a different opinion, and an opinion of an opinion, so you need to find someone in the industry you implicitly trust... and go from there. It is all trial and error and the more trials and errors I make, the stronger is my resolve to know I can find the exact right people. In the meantime I am thinking of selling my car to pay for the next book publishing.... yes, seriously. Only problem is that we live in the countryside.... so mukluks on... and start walking... ? I'll look for any pot of gold as I go.
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