A New Book at Last!

It’s been a looong time since I last blogged. I could say that it was because I was busy writing, but I wasn’t particularly busy, and the only things I’ve consistently written in the past few months are instructions for the dog sitter, book reviews, and a few pages for the next book.

Along the way, I rewrote, revised and readied my newest book for publication and now, after a year, “River of Light,” is being released. My first book, “In the Pockets of Dreams,” was self-published and I did all the formatting, book cover design--the works. But, ten years later, things have changed in the publishing world and so have I.

I long for the days when publishers paid authors to publish their books. Now, it is more likely that an author will pay the publisher. And the cover designer. And the developmental editor. And the copy editor. Then there will be the costs of promotion—contests, boosts, book fairs, influencers, ads, book reviews. The goal might morph from making a lot of money on a best-seller to the far more modest goal of realizing enough money from the sale of a book to pay for publishing the next book.
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But, here it is at last: “River of Light,” published by my friend at Mumblers Press and available for Kindle pre-orders on Amazon. Life is good.