The Learning Curve

The Learning Curve

The past few months have been filled with so many new twists and turns, it leaves me breathless as I think back. I took on the task of self-publishing my memoir partially to avoid certain miseries like rejection, (I had no interest in facing the kinds of cruel...
The Learning Curve

Losing and Gaining Heart

I woke up this morning and I felt paralyzed. Why? I wondered. I finished my memoir, I self-published it and now I’m marketing it: submitting it for reviews, sending emails, posting on social media. All the things one is supposed to do to market a book these days. But...
The Learning Curve

Choosing Photos For Self Publishing

When I read memoirs or biographies, I love seeing photos of the people and events I’m reading about. But when these photos appear, one after the other, crowded into the middle section of a book, or in two sections halfway through the first and second half, I find it...