I've have many trips around the sun and I've yet to reach that 'get easy' stage in my writing career (or life for that matter). I've often started down a path and thought this is the 'it gets easy' road but I've found that it was another path of ...
I left my full-time job to live my dream of writing. Oh the dreams I had. Writing, eating doughnuts that never made me fat or effected my sugar, and napping (lots of naps). I was home for 2 weeks and along comes Charlie...
Now I know that plenty of moms do amazing jobs while working full time (and I did the first time around) but Charlie is a child of trauma. And the many many challenges that brings.... and the endless amount of joy makes it more complicated.
To start my shift from a full time employee the amazing world of full time writer, I began a fantasy series under my 'nice' pen name. It was a 3 book series!
I wrote it!!! I sold it!!! And the house went out of business :-( I wrote a couple steamy romance suspense - Sold them!!!! And the houses went out business :-(
So what do I do??? Give up and eat doughnuts - that would make my hips grow and do wicked (and not the good kind of wicked) things to my sugar? Nope...
I made a seriously scary decision and decided to self publish them....YIKES. Now I really need those doughnuts!
A Mermaid's Wish was my first book from beginning to end that I self published (the other ones had been previously published so it was just a matter of uploading them on Draft2Digital).
Man oh man is there so much to the self publishing thing...Where to get a cover???? I was to the point I was going to have Charlie draw me a picture. Then I found Lia Davis and she's much better than Charlie's coloring!
I had to find a content editor...
a line editor... my eye is twitching still thinking about it.
I wouldn't say that it has gotten easier to self published but I'm a little more comfortable. So while I haven't ever stumbled on to the 'it get's easier' path, I have traveled the path of amazing dreams realized and over flowing with love.
