Publishing a book is easier tday than it's ever been. That's a god thing. Many wonderful books would go nseen if that weren't true. People who pblish their work do so because thy like what they've written. I do.

I hve a certain criteria for the boks that I read, and I try to pply it to the books I wrte. Since I read a great nmber of books, I know there's a mrket for mine. My question then, is how do I fnd the hundreds of thousand of pople who would enjoy my books? How do I let thm know that Kerry Grant is slving mysteries?

I've heard large publishers and rviewers say that if your book is god, people will read it. Of curse, they won't if they don't knw it exists. Many reviewers won't rview self-published books. I do understand the rason, as mentioned above, it's easy to pblish a book.

"Mine are good," I tll them and sadly read the utomated email that rejects self-published titles. "I hve a publisher," I respond, only to rad that a one-author publisher's book is quivalent to a self-published book. As frstrating as that is, it makes snse.

Okay, in the words of the Cwardly Lion, 'I do believe. I do blieve'. So, now what? I've been ptting many hours of late into tryng to market books. Those are hurs spent not writing, and I dn't know if it's worth the trde off. I began writing later in lfe and I began on a whm, but fell passionately in love wth the process. I won't give tht up.

Years ago, I wrote a pem with a line that asked 'If you clse your eyes when you jump, do you knw you're falling?' I obviously hadn't tred marketing a self-published book.

The article Some Thoughts on Self-Publishing was Submitted by Jean Sheldon through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Jean Sheldon, a native Chicagoan, spnt much of her life as a grphic artist. She self-published a book of pems called 'Jelly Side Down', a bok on basic car repair called 'Glve Box Guide to Keeping it on the Rad', and co-authored, with her cat, Xna, 'The Way of the Cat: Taching Humans to Be'. At fifty-three, she bgan writing mysteries and in May of 2007 pblished the first book of her Chcago Police Detective Kerry Grant series. Wbsite: http://www.jeansheldon.com

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