First butterfly this spring in my awesome plum tree
Hello! Sorry we were a bit short on threads in March. My work load almost doubled, so I had some frantic rearranging to do in order to accommodate it. I think we’ll be back on track for twice a month now as long as there is interest.
I am stockpiling some stories from our published writer’s on their experiences to share the next few posts. Thanks to everyone who has emailed me. I’ll give you a heads up when I’m planning on posting your wonderful experiences. Going forward, what I would love is any emails with topic suggestions and/or your stories.
Today I’m sharing John F. Wirenius story. He’s successfully published his book, Phineas at Bay (found here):
So I self-published a novel in 2014. it’s called Phineas at Bay through CreateSpace. It’s a sequel to Anthony Trollope’s six Palliser novels, set in England in the late 19th Century.
On the whole, I found it to be a very satisfying experience. I had a good friend, with a Masters in English, who was willing to edit the book, and had another friend design the cover. (My first friend, who appointed herself my “Domineditrix” was kind enough not to change, if I would do the same for her novel; my second charged me a reasonable but not nugatory fee.) So I went to CreateSpace for internal formatting and layout and production. I also used their book description promotional services to come up with the jacket description and author bio.