Here are a handful of interesting self-publishing success stories in a recent Publishers Weekly article. I love reading real-life stories of the process people went through to write and publish their books. Right now I don’t have any plans of signing on with a publishing house, but the last sentence of the first story is what scares me:

“When administrative and distribution work became too onerous, however, Tillman was ready to find a publisher.”

Right now I’m just trying to take one step at a time, but we’ll see what the future holds!

HT: John Kremer’s Book Marketing Blog

Author Josh Harris shares How to Write a Book in 16 Easy Steps on his blog. Even though I’ve only written one book, I can totally relate to his bit of tongue-in-cheek commentary on the emotional rollercoaster of writing a book. A great little dose of reality for anyone working on a book or aspiring to write a book!

…but such is not the case. 🙂 I’ve just been so hard at work that I’ve been negligent in posting updates for the past month or so. Sorry! Here’s a quick list of some of the things I’ve been working on:

• Implementing the editors’ suggestions and marks into the final manuscript.
• Meeting with various people who are helping with the project – editors, a marketing advisor, my interior page designer, etc.
• Gathering pre-publication endorsements.
• Creating a Pajama School Fact Sheet.
• Designing a new website/blog for Pajama School (soon to be live!).
• Opening a bank account for Sibro Publishing.
• Opening a PayPal account for Sibro Publishing (I’m linking to it in case you want to make a donation to the cause 🙂 ).
• Setting up an Amazon Advantage account so that I can sell Pajama School on Amazon.
• Acquiring a business license from our city.
• Thinking and praying a lot!