Being an Indie author is a surprisingly complex endeavor. Keeping up every day is a challenge. My gal pal over at the Huffington Post Blog, Rachel Blaufeld, wrote this great piece which pretty much says it all. It's worth checking out: The glamor of Self-Publishing.
I asked her, when you find the fun parts Rachel can you email them to me? I know it will be fun, eventually. I'm just not there yet. I'm at the working to build stage and it's a challenge.
What can I say. It's a lot of work. I didn't know that when I starting releasing my 26 books. I'm very practical in how I think. I thought: Where can I find a free hour a day to do this?
My 29 year old daughter bounced home for 2 years to do some more college and she brought with her an addiction to Law & Order. Did you know there is an episode of some kind of Law & Order series on every hour of the day somewhere. I'd never watched the show before she stayed with us, and I quickly became addicted. I have like 9000 espisodes to catch up on because there are 3 different series that each span like 20 years. So every day I watch an episode new to me.
So I thought..hmmm, there's an hour of day I can cut. It sounded like it would work. It is sort of working. But it's a challenge, day by day, one step at a time. Thank god Real Housewives of Orange county is in break for the season. I have a feeling I'm going to need another hour after I release #5 on October 6th. And that's when Real Housewives gets cut out of the schedule. Goodbye Vicki. Goodbye Tamara. Goodbye Heather... you are being sacrificed for my dream.
I asked her, when you find the fun parts Rachel can you email them to me? I know it will be fun, eventually. I'm just not there yet. I'm at the working to build stage and it's a challenge.
What can I say. It's a lot of work. I didn't know that when I starting releasing my 26 books. I'm very practical in how I think. I thought: Where can I find a free hour a day to do this?
My 29 year old daughter bounced home for 2 years to do some more college and she brought with her an addiction to Law & Order. Did you know there is an episode of some kind of Law & Order series on every hour of the day somewhere. I'd never watched the show before she stayed with us, and I quickly became addicted. I have like 9000 espisodes to catch up on because there are 3 different series that each span like 20 years. So every day I watch an episode new to me.
So I thought..hmmm, there's an hour of day I can cut. It sounded like it would work. It is sort of working. But it's a challenge, day by day, one step at a time. Thank god Real Housewives of Orange county is in break for the season. I have a feeling I'm going to need another hour after I release #5 on October 6th. And that's when Real Housewives gets cut out of the schedule. Goodbye Vicki. Goodbye Tamara. Goodbye Heather... you are being sacrificed for my dream.
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