TAKING THE
PLUNGE: INTO INDIE PUBLISHING
MY JOURNEY WITH CREATE SPACE
From
December to September: so what was the big holdup?Genuine nerves! Cowardice! Procrastination!
All of
the above plus a liberal serving of self-doubt. Not as an author or editor or fear that my books wouldn’t cut it
simply my lack of expertise/ experience in publishing. The weight of responsibility. When you
self-publish. It all comes down to you. There is no one to edit your final
work, no feedback on plot foul ups, repetitions, typos, bad grammar its all the
same to publishers such as CS (CreateSpace )
While I was completely confident there were no issues in any of these
areas; both books had been edited & gone over with a fine tooth comb , still
little errors cropped up. So my MS(s)
were read, re-read, & then over it all again. Most
books these days have minor errors even when published by big publishing
houses. Even so I both books had to reach my standards.
To say I was
fearful of embarking on the first steps towards publishing with CS is not
putting it too strongly. I was heading
into unknown territory (it felt like shark infested waters) What if I made a
mess of it? So I- did what I always do,
research & gather information. Lots of gathering went on here. That’s where
the procrastination came in. Formatting, page size, margins. I
downloaded too much random information ( I was buried beneath a mountain) before realising it was all there in one BIG
document from CS. My good friend Hettie Ashwin who has published numerous
books, many through CS gave me some pointers.
She also said it was easy. No problems. Of course she wouldn’t lie to me. Would she? Maybe she had no
problems--- I had buckets of them. Still, I determined not to ask for help. I
could & would do this myself. Hence the lengthy lapse in time between
deciding & actually doing. More on
this later
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