My Self-Publishing Journey
I first learned about self-publishing when I was in Junior High School when I was in my 4th year. Short stories where compiled into one book. All of my classmates manuscripts were collected and got book bind. Only my story was not included because of it has too many pages.
This is the first type of self-publishing I knew about. We were required to give copies to our class mates and mine was limited edition because of its length. My Classmate Sofia Yu said it was already a Novella. I got hooked into my own story that I planned a Book series of it. I wrote down in yellow pad paper the book plan but the cost of book bind cross my mind and I just got discouraged and discontinued my Book series plan.
In 2009 I got into the avatar website Gaia Online and on one of those forums specifically for writing stories, I was writing a story about a ''little witch''. I got lots of criticisms so I deleted my post. I already have the thought of writing a book version of it but I still got worried that I need money to have it book bind.
So I did not continue the idea of creating a book again. Instead I just searched for a Job. It was in 2010 that I get to know J.K. Rowling through her documentary ''A year in the Life''. I saw how traditional publishing works and that got me inspired to plan my own book and follow the steps and process how Jo got published. I was motivated and inspired by her to write my own book sadly I got rejected by a literary agent.
My first rejection was a positive one requesting that I find another literary agent. But I decided that I did not have the talent and self-publishing came to my mind again. I though about creating my book by printing the pages and binding with a cover myself. Then donating copies of the book to libraries for free in order to get readers. After that e-books came into my mind and I self-published by turning my book into a PDF file.
I changed my mind again and search in the internet how to create a book and I found on my search about ''createspace.com'' which enable me to self-publish in print on demand and then I found out about kindle direct publishing online. I self-published in those platforms on my own. That is how I learned to self-published by doing research online the proper way.
This is the first type of self-publishing I knew about. We were required to give copies to our class mates and mine was limited edition because of its length. My Classmate Sofia Yu said it was already a Novella. I got hooked into my own story that I planned a Book series of it. I wrote down in yellow pad paper the book plan but the cost of book bind cross my mind and I just got discouraged and discontinued my Book series plan.
In 2009 I got into the avatar website Gaia Online and on one of those forums specifically for writing stories, I was writing a story about a ''little witch''. I got lots of criticisms so I deleted my post. I already have the thought of writing a book version of it but I still got worried that I need money to have it book bind.
So I did not continue the idea of creating a book again. Instead I just searched for a Job. It was in 2010 that I get to know J.K. Rowling through her documentary ''A year in the Life''. I saw how traditional publishing works and that got me inspired to plan my own book and follow the steps and process how Jo got published. I was motivated and inspired by her to write my own book sadly I got rejected by a literary agent.
My first rejection was a positive one requesting that I find another literary agent. But I decided that I did not have the talent and self-publishing came to my mind again. I though about creating my book by printing the pages and binding with a cover myself. Then donating copies of the book to libraries for free in order to get readers. After that e-books came into my mind and I self-published by turning my book into a PDF file.
I changed my mind again and search in the internet how to create a book and I found on my search about ''createspace.com'' which enable me to self-publish in print on demand and then I found out about kindle direct publishing online. I self-published in those platforms on my own. That is how I learned to self-published by doing research online the proper way.
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