The Business of Being an Author Part 1
Being an author is so much more than writing stories. It sounds so simple. Write a great story, publish it and watch the money come in. Cue hysterical laughter from the writing community. While writing can be a hobby, if you are serious about publishing the stories you create, you must understand it is a business. Indie publishing is a demanding, full-time business even if you only work at it part-time.
A Brief Update
Wow, it’s almost Thanksgiving. How’d that happen? Life has been incredibly hectic around casa Phillips. Mr. P and I have been trading germs trying to one-up the other with who’s the sickest. Fortunately, modern medicine’s antibiotics have put us on the road to recovery. I still have a lingering cough but I am upright and functioning. In spite of my body’s best efforts to get acquainted with the grim reaper, I have made a few more updates to the website. I’m in the process of setting up my newsletter, Rochelle’s Readers. I hope to have all the signup forms active and the first newsletter ready by the first week of December. Being sick for most of October has put me…
