It has been a very a very long time since I blogged on here.
Years ago, making a living as a Freelance Artist - though mediocre I may have been, I really thought I would paint for the rest of my life. How wrong I was?
Being unwell for a number of years and losing several members of my family, inevitably brought on some doom and gloom but one day after reading an inspiring e-mail from Joel Osteen, I realized that there was more to me than just my painting skills.
I had written 2 Children's Books years ago and would either post them to Publishers or drive up and down the motorway delivering them by hand.
The suspense of waiting for good or bad news was a killer.
Manuscripts often sit around doing nothing for months while you're left thinking that the longer the wait, the more interested the Publisher is.
WRONG !
After so many kicks in the guts, demoralization drives you to 'Shelve' your own material - FOR YEARS !
Then 'life' and 'tragedy' cause you to re-assess your life and you start dragging out your old 'tools' - the tools of your trade and VOILA ! All that hard preparation work wasn't in vain and you find that it DOES have the potential to be resurrected ~ with the invention of Digital Self Publishing such as KDP - Amazons Kindle Direct Publishing
This is what happened in the case of three books I wrote years ago - in the days when I wanted it all to happen 'yesterday' !
I will discuss preparation for turning your manuscript into a Kindle e-Book on my next Blog, but for now here are the three live publications I have on Kindle Direct Publishing at this moment.
"What's For Dinner Luv?"
Fringeless and Friendless
Fribi the Planetarian Tour Guide
Thanks for reading.
See you soon!
Alena
Years ago, making a living as a Freelance Artist - though mediocre I may have been, I really thought I would paint for the rest of my life. How wrong I was?
Being unwell for a number of years and losing several members of my family, inevitably brought on some doom and gloom but one day after reading an inspiring e-mail from Joel Osteen, I realized that there was more to me than just my painting skills.
I had written 2 Children's Books years ago and would either post them to Publishers or drive up and down the motorway delivering them by hand.
The suspense of waiting for good or bad news was a killer.
Manuscripts often sit around doing nothing for months while you're left thinking that the longer the wait, the more interested the Publisher is.
WRONG !
After so many kicks in the guts, demoralization drives you to 'Shelve' your own material - FOR YEARS !
Then 'life' and 'tragedy' cause you to re-assess your life and you start dragging out your old 'tools' - the tools of your trade and VOILA ! All that hard preparation work wasn't in vain and you find that it DOES have the potential to be resurrected ~ with the invention of Digital Self Publishing such as KDP - Amazons Kindle Direct Publishing
This is what happened in the case of three books I wrote years ago - in the days when I wanted it all to happen 'yesterday' !
I will discuss preparation for turning your manuscript into a Kindle e-Book on my next Blog, but for now here are the three live publications I have on Kindle Direct Publishing at this moment.
"What's For Dinner Luv?"
Fringeless and Friendless
Fribi the Planetarian Tour Guide
Thanks for reading.
See you soon!
Alena
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