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jon_chaissonNot gonna lie. The excitement of seeing your first book officially listed on websites like Barnes & Noble does not get old. I'm still stuck in 'how the hell did I pull this off?' mode here.
I went into this self-publishing venture completely expecting (and accepting) that I'd be shouldering all the work from start to finish. I faced each part of it with a balance of seriousness and enjoyment--I refused to do a half-assed job with any of it, but I also had a blast doing it as well. It's true, it's been exhausting juggling all this with the Day Job (especially when the Day Job has been stressful with an unexpected rise in work volume), but in keeping an even head and remaining dedicated has paid off.
The Final Line Edit is finished as of late last night (to the tune of Failure's Fantastic Planet, for those playing along), five days ahead of schedule. All I need do now is clean up a few endpage fiddly bits and start work on the final formatting. I'm probably going to be spending tomorrow on that.
Then I get to do this twice more for books 2 and 3. Woohoo!
Oh, and shameless link:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-division-of-souls-jon-chaisson/1122455721?ean=2940152073201
I went into this self-publishing venture completely expecting (and accepting) that I'd be shouldering all the work from start to finish. I faced each part of it with a balance of seriousness and enjoyment--I refused to do a half-assed job with any of it, but I also had a blast doing it as well. It's true, it's been exhausting juggling all this with the Day Job (especially when the Day Job has been stressful with an unexpected rise in work volume), but in keeping an even head and remaining dedicated has paid off.
The Final Line Edit is finished as of late last night (to the tune of Failure's Fantastic Planet, for those playing along), five days ahead of schedule. All I need do now is clean up a few endpage fiddly bits and start work on the final formatting. I'm probably going to be spending tomorrow on that.
Then I get to do this twice more for books 2 and 3. Woohoo!
Oh, and shameless link:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-division-of-souls-jon-chaisson/1122455721?ean=2940152073201
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Date: 2015-08-15 04:41 pm (UTC)It does all sound very exciting. I'm going to try to do some self-publishing, so I hope you'll spread around some wisdom posts when you have time?
How do you anticipate marketing?
Will you have hard copies available? Or are you sticking with e-books?
Good luck with it all!
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Date: 2015-08-16 03:03 pm (UTC)Marketing? Heh. Most of this has been via the Indiana Jones Method ("I dunno, I'm just making it up as I go along."). I'm just going with what makes sense to me, really. I'm not making a huge marketing plan. My view has basically been thinking about how someone like myself finds out about books, and go with that.
As for hard copies...that's a good question. I may do it through CreateSpace when I set the book up for Kindle.
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Date: 2015-08-15 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-08-16 03:03 pm (UTC)