OMG why is everything in life so difficult, here we were thinking it was all so easy and were overwhellemed and weve only just started, step two set up your own web page lol easier said than done, I mean what do you put on it? when is it ready to be published? The more you look into this publishing lark the harder it becomes. there was us thinking yes easy enough just choose a self publishing company and off you go. Not so quick, its not THAT easy. There are over twenty companies that we have found already all offering different packages all at different costs and then when you research those companies there are drawbacks to each one.Not the same drawbacks Oh No all different.
So we decided to concentrate on getting the website ready for publishing. Easy? No chance. So weve bought our web domain, designed how its going to look now we concentrate on what goes into the site.
But thats going to take time, I estimate around three months time we will be ready to publish, first we have to get the books into ebooks, start selling them, get podcasts made, make a few videos and most of all FIND AN ILLUSTRATOR AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
So we have spent a few hours designing the webpage put that to one side and decided on getting our books onto ebook, at least then we can start selling in the meantime of setting up the webpage and deciding on a self publisher.
What could be easier, the books are already written (minus the illustrations) so we should be able to fire them out quite quickly yes?
NO. STOP RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE!!!!!!
they dont publish ebooks the same way as you publish a paperback, oh no, you have to redo the whole manuscript in a completely different format than the paperback, so guess what, it's back to rewriting the books again, ready for ebook publishing AND THEY WANT A FRONT COVER WE HAVE NO ILLUSTRATOR(have I already mentioned that?)
So day 2 is bang your head against a brick wall, count to ten and breathe day.
We will keep you posted on what happens next, as for now, we are going for a long break, well until tomorrow at least.
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