Thursday, April 19, 2012

UPDATE

So, come to find out, the company I was thinking of publishing with, is one where the author pays the publisher to do the work for them. Now, I'm not knocking that, I just don't have the bob (you'll find out what that means in Irish slang when you read the book) to do that right now. Therefore, I am in the process of creating my book online through CreateSpace on my own. Yep, that's right; I'll be one of those lame, self-published, indie authors. But, maybe someday when I'm rich and famous and someone is buying the movie rights, like Amanda Hocking, I'll be able to afford to publish somewhere else. Or, publishing companies will be beating my door down. Anywho, after a day and a half of trying to format the stupid thing just right, it's now officially downloaded and saved. My 183 pages, ended up at 412! On to the cover. My super awesome friend, Rebecca has offered to help me design it. I know what I want, so hopefully it will turn out. I didn't want to go with one of the plain cheesy templates that were already made up. Because we all know, that you do judge a book by its cover. At least I do anyway. I went to Barnes and Noble a few months ago to check out the "Teen Paranormal Romance" section, and if the cover was lame, I didn't even bother to read the back to see what it was about. If it looks cool, it probably is cool. I'll keep this updated once I get my proof back and it becomes ready for sale on Amazon and possibly Barnes and Noble. Then, you can all run to your computers right away to buy 6 copies of it because you know you want one for your mom, sister, teen daughter, friend, friend of a friend, and even your grandma.

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