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Welcome Guest Blogger Elaine Williams!

Submitted by Elaine Williams on Thu, 2009-01-29 13:22.

Thank you for inviting me to guest blog and for the opportunity to share my self-publishing experience.
My writing has always carried bits and pieces of my personal life. I have read and written romance for many years and in 2001, I was published by SSE.
When I began journaling about two and a half years after my husband’s death, I wasn’t thinking of writing a book. Always a writer, I needed to put my thoughts down, but for a long time grief had stolen that ability, so my first efforts were disjointed bits and pieces.
When I felt like the writing was done, the realization kept coming to me that it was something other women needed to read. Because of the personal nature of my writing, I initially resisted this idea, but the notion persisted.
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Welcome Guest Blogger Linda Mickey!

Submitted by LindaMickey on Thu, 2009-01-29 13:28.

Note From Sam: Take notice that today we have two guest bloggers: Elaine Williams is addressing her experiences self-publishing her nonfiction book, and our other guest, Linda Mickey, is addressing self-publishing her mystery series (fiction). This is a follow-up on my previous discussion about self-publishing, and I thank these two authors for coming to chat with us today. I hope we'll all have a great discussion! I have highlighted both discussions so visitors know we have two bloggers today, and I didn't want you to miss either one! Sam
From Linda:
First, let me point out that there are really two categories of self-publishing. One requires that the author form a publishing company. The author is responsible for everything from paper selection to distribution –and the author/publisher pays all the costs of getting the book to market. The other I’ll call supported or subsidized self-publishing. In this, the author makes some decisions but portions of the process are LICENSED to a company that handles a variety of tasks. If an author gives up his or her ownership rights and pays to publish, it is not self-publishing. It is vanity press and that is something completely different.
There are pros and cons to everything and that certainly applies to self-publishing fiction.
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