After many years of writing idea’s, scenes etc, I finally came around to actually writing a novel. The first in a series to be more precise. I never gave it much thought, as to me it always was a hobby, something private. Yet after talking with a friend (read, getting my ass whipped) she convinced me that maybe there are people out there who would love to read my story.

After much deliberation, I slowly started to do some research into it and decided that self-publishing would be the way to go. Easy peasy! They said. ‘They’ being the many self-publishing and or POD (printing on demand) sites. Great, I thought. Because with no background in publishing, it felt nice to hear that everyone could do this.

But then things started to get more serious. I’m a modest person by nature, and I don’t have any expectations of becoming the next J.K. Rowling, or another newby writer who rises to best selling status overnight. but I generally don’t like to do things halfway either. If I’m going to expose my ‘baby’ out there, I’m going to give it everything I can to succeed in the big bad world.

Via the wonderful Facebook NANOWRIMO community (really go check them out, they are great!) I came to another FB group called 20booksto50K. Again, I never expect to make that much money with my book, but it did make me realize that maybe it’s not as ‘easy peasy’ as they make it out to be. In fact, the more I’m researching the whole ‘Indie world’, the more I realize there is sooooo much to it! From editing to covers, and from marketing to distribution. 

I’m currently at a point where I feel totally overwhelmed one moment and completely motivated the next. I’m learning new things every day. Things I never ever considered I’d needed to know. Why this blog? First of all, it’s a way for me to help organize my thoughts and give the information I’m gathering a place. It helps me to put things in writing; As I’m writing it down, it’s downloading the information on my hard drive so to speak. But then I thought, maybe there are other people out there who are going through the same thing. Maybe right this moment, or maybe months after, but they might want to know they are not alone out there. They might learn from my successes (or failures, who knows at this point.) As a rather inquisitive person by nature, I like learning new things, so I’ve decided to board the rollercoaster and see where it will take me. Will it be a success? Failure? At least I’ve tried. No ‘what if’s’.