What is your idea of perfect happiness? Completing my last proof of my manuscript and submitting it for approval. What is your greatest fear? Finding typos in my work after publishing it. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? Not being confident enough in my work. What is the trait you most deplore…
As a citizen of the digital publishing world, I have created a list of six principles that reflect what I believe about self-publishing and what I want to believe/manifest about self-publishing. Here is my self-publishing manifesto:
I want to start by saying that no, I have not read every one of these books. In a way, this blog post serves as a reading list for me, too! Here are some books that I have come across in my research on the process of self-publishing. They cover topics ranging from why you…
Most of my early days writing my first self-published poetry collection involved printing out the poems I was working on and taking a pen to them. I’d do this a thousand times in a single week. The finalized poems would be completely different from the originals and better. Spending time with your writing is incredibly…
You might have thought about self-publishing before, but something stops you from going through with it. Do you know why? Well, it might have to do with the nasty stigma circling self-publishing and self-published authors. This post will discuss why the stigma surrounding self-publishing is fruitless. And hopefully, over time, people will come to fully…
When I decided to self-publish, I knew I would have to promote myself and my product like crazy. I would have to market myself. I wasn’t the shyest person, but I wasn’t one to put myself out there on every occasion. Putting yourself out there is hard. But it was something I had to learn…
I was a junior in high school. The summer before school started, I had been reading a LOT of poetry–and writing a little too. So, I decided to take a Poetry Independent Study with one of my favorite high school English teachers, focusing on reading and analyzing poems. Just me, my teacher, and a big…