Personal insights along the way

The time has arrived: distributing my finished books!

As I decided to publish with CreateSpace (Amazon), which is placed in America and which only has printing facilities in the U.S., now that it comes to ordering my finished books, reality has hit! The postage costs are simply horrific! Whereas before, my research as a complete self-publishing novice focussed on HOW TO PUBLISH, i.e. […]

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Building My Author Platform – Why I write what I write

Part of building my author platform is answering some challenging questions: Not so much WHAT I write, which is quite easy to answer but rather WHY? Ouch! That requires a bit of thinking! I believe that at heart, I am a teacher. I want to share my life experience, to possibly save others from making the

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Getting through the legal hurdles when you self-publish

My “Nature Poetry” book is ready for submission and then for eventual publication. I say “eventual” because I will need to use a fine tooth comb to go through the prototype of the finished product, despite all the extensive proofing I have already done on my draft. All this, though seemingly finicky and tedious, nevertheless is standard

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Building an Author Platform

One of the dos for “indie” authors (short for independent, I am told) is building your author platform, so it seems. This is one of the many hoops “trendy” self-publishing authors are recommended to jump through, by internet self-publishing gooroos. The list is truly dizzying; first you need to produce a manuscript as close to

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