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"I love your newsletters. You should write a book." That’s what people have told me for years.
Guess what? After going back and forth with my awesome marketing team at Incite Creative, I did.
It was easy peasy, or it should have been. I have had years of material to work with. But some of that material, well, it was dated and not really book ready.
What did we need to do?
- Sort through 20+ years of stories that I’ve written to determine which ones were book ready
- Edit the stories and then edit them again
- Hire an illustrator
- Proofread the stories and proofread again with a professional proofreader
- Format the book for publishing and then proof it again
- Create an ISBN #, which is some publishing thing that identifies the book
- Sign a contract with Amazon that basically gives them the right to print your book and take all the money
- Upload your book, which goes through multiple checks before they say, “OK, you can sell it now, good luck!”
All this is to say, writing a book is a lot of work even when you have all the material. Was it worth it? Give it a read and let me know!
-Eileen
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