The Undiscovered Country

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I don't have much to say other than the desire to jump to the top of the blog list for 34.56 seconds.

Actually, that's a bit optimistic. Make that 0.154 seconds.

When Thomas finds ways to either sleep or entertain himself, I'm finishing up my novella for publication. I'm leaning toward BookSurge, a subsidiary of Amazon.com. If I create my own cover as well as format the manuscript according to their specifications, publication - which includes the ISBN number and listing on Amazon as well as a few other online bookstores - and 20 copies for my personal use will cost a mere $299. I could add on a bunch of features such as professional editing, but that can easily jump the price up to over $2,000. $300 sounds much more appealing. Plus I'm working with a gal there who so far is very helpful. It's nice to have a real person available to hold my hand through the process.

I don't have the cash now, but hopefully by the time I'm finished, I'll have scraped enough to pay for it.

After that comes some promotion (don't worry Voxxylady , I'll keep the quality of my writing a priority ). With so much technology at my disposal, I'll be able to get a good start, such as my portfolio, creating a website, and myspace. The book isn't big or important enough for other types of promotion such as book signings; I want to use this book to gain a following for when my other books get published.

It probably sounds like a pie-in-the-sky dream right now, but that's what writers do best - dream. May as well dream big if I am to dream at all.

Plus, with so many of you publishing on your own, I have many a resource to answer any questions that come up.

Anyway, that's the thought bouncing around in my brain. Not much else going on except trying to figure out why my little one is so fussy today.

Later!