I have discovered publishing your own book is quite the undertaking.
\nI remember a meeting I had with my undergraduate journalism professor\u00a0about being able
\nto complete my degree in the time frame I wanted, many years ago.\u00a0He asked me a lot of
\nprobing questions, and I am forever grateful he took time to help\u00a0me figure out some things.
\nHe was a great objective sounding board.\u00a0In this meeting, he\u00a0told me, “Go publish your own
\nbook. You don’t need a publishing house. Times are\u00a0changing, and publishing yourself
\ndoesn’t have the stigma it used to have.”<\/p>\n
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I remember just staring at him in disbelief.<\/p>\n
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Publish my own book?<\/p>\n
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What glamour would that have to it? How would I accomplish this endeavor?<\/p>\n
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Whelp, I can say my ideas of book publishing were wrong on every level. Yet, in the end,
\nI wish I would have taken a little more heed, earlier, to his words.\u00a0Times are completely
\ndifferent than they used to be. Frankly, publishing is quite different from even a few
\nyears ago, and it is constantly changing.<\/p>\n
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I realized, after a lot of research, that the book industry isn’t as big as I thought it was,
\nand the many convoluted roads within the industry were typically based\u00a0upon the bottom
\ndollar. This led me to self-publishing.<\/p>\n
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I decided I didn’t like the aspect of most things boiling back to money. I didn’t want to water
\ndown what I wanted to say because it could have repercussions for the publishing house.
\nI didn’t want to be bound by a contract, which would force my hand to tone down what I
\nwanted to say or do. I didn’t want to be linked to topics and subjects I didn’t agree with, and I
\ndidn’t want to have money being a determining factor for anything. Plus, more than anything,
\nI wanted full creative control. I wanted to control everything about my project. Going the\u00a0self-
\npublished road was a mentally trying decision. It wasn’t easy to make by any means, but I felt
\nit was the only road, at this junction of my life, I was willing to travel. If I was going to
\nfollow what my key hopes for this book were going to be, I needed to try.<\/p>\n
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If you’re fascinated by the process, keep reading.<\/p>\n
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I am going to unpack my book, Be~ Biblical Wisdom for Children, and give you a behind the
\nscene look at different parts of the process.<\/p>\n
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