I signed a publishing deal for my debut book in April this year and am now working with the publisher and editor to get it published. The whole experience has been (and continues to be) amazing with many highs and lows and even more lessons learnt.
First Time Author is my attempt to share the lessons. In a series of blog posts, I will share my experience, starting with how I came up with the idea and how I wrote the first draft, all the way through to approaching publishers, signing a deal and working with the publisher to bring the book to market – and all the other little stuff that happened along the way.
I’m aiming to share 2-3 blog posts per month. Enter your email address below if you want to be notified when I publish a new one.
Paying someone to help publish your book seems to be frowned upon by many. But if you’re paying the right people it could be a valuable, quite possibly even necessary, thing to do. Learn more about what to look out for before paying someone to publish your book.
Read MoreAn overview of the writing tools, apps, software, and other things I used to write my book. Find out what laptop I wrote on, how I used Grammarly to edit and fine-tune, how I managed my work and more.
Read MoreFind out how I shared my work with beta readers, how I protected it, how I worked with feedback and what I did when I didn’t agree with feedback I received - and what I learned along the way.
Read MoreRead about the benefits of having beta readers, how I found beta readers for my book and how I worked with them. I also shared some ‘unusual’ tips on how you can find beta readers for your book.
Read MoreIn this post, I talk about how I edited the draft of my book to get it to a point where I was happy to share it with others.
Read MoreIn part two of 90,000 words in 4 months, I share how managed to write a lot in a short period of time, in what order I wrote my book and where I write best.
Read MoreHow do you go from having an idea for a book to actually writing a book? I’m sure there are about a million different ways to go about it, but here is how I went from idea to first words.
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