The Successful Failure – My Oxymoronic Publishing Journey – Part 14

  Since I’d decided to write about reincarnation, what prior life would my heroine experience?  The practice of child labor in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries really intrigues me,…

Interview on The Rejection Survival Guide Blog

In conjunction with my blog posts about my writing and publishing journey, The Successful Failure – My Oxymoronic Publishing Journey, I was interviewed by Daniella Levy from The Rejection Survival Guide…

The Successful Failure – My Oxymoronic Publishing Journey – Part 11

I decided it was finally time to let Harvey Dunne go. There comes a point when you realize you can do no more with your current project (although it feels…

The Successful Failure – My Oxymoronic Publishing Journey – Part 10

As my last major effort at marketing Is Harvey Dunne?, I decided to make a trailer for YouTube. Back in December 2009, videos were becoming much more popular.  And even…

The Successful Failure – My Oxymoronic Publishing Journey – Part 9

Synonyms for the word BEG: Seek, Request, Ask, Appeal To, Implore, Beseech, Plead, Entreat. Another: A writer soliciting whoever they can in whatever manner possible to read their book. Unfortunately,…

The Successful Failure – My Oxymoronic Publishing Journey – Part 8

OK, so now my book was published. What should I do next? I felt almost like a new mom bringing the baby home for the first time, asking myself “Oh…

The Successful Failure – My Oxymoronic Publishing Journey – Part 7

So, to publish a book, the first thing I had to do was choose a service. I didn’t have much money to spend, so I went with a free service.…