One year ago I made my yearly goals. My main goal was to get my book published. As I listed all the steps needed to reach that goal, it seemed over-whelming and impossible to complete in one year.
You see, I had sent my manuscript off to an editor a week before, and wasn’t going to get it back for another month. I knew nothing about self-publishing, converting files for publishing, creating websites, making cover art, getting isbns, or really anything connected to getting a book into the hands of readers.
Little by little, I completed each step. Though, getting revisions done from the editor was probably the most challenging. I picked a release date in December to make sure I had enough time to get everything done. Even then, it was a close call. I didn’t get my manuscript done until a few days before Thanksgiving. I had to give up work on Bischoff Black book 2 during NaNoWriMo to make my deadline.
Though, what I didn’t expect to be the most challenging part of the whole process would be uploading to KDP. It took a week to get it uploaded and accepted. Of all the videos I watched on how to do it, nothing worked until I used Kindle Create. The only downside, I couldn’t use the font I wanted, it had to be Amazon’s Kindle font. Though, I’ll have to redo it one day to the style I envisioned, but for now, I’m so thrilled have my book out and ready to be read.
I’m going into 2024 with a new optimism and hope the goals I’ve set will come to amazing completion like 2023.
