After months - yes months - of pontificating, dreaming and some tantrums, the time has come for me to self-publish Too Close to the Sun.
I had thoughts of trying for a traditional publisher amid dreams that I would be offered a contract along with a six figure advance and that I might be able to give up my day job and write full-time.
After sending my brilliant (if I don't big it up, who will??) novel, Too Close to the Sun to just two publishers and neither of them having the courtesy to either acknowledge or say thanks but no thanks, I had an epiphany.
Just do it myself.
I had my hands well and truly tied with Authorhouse, who published my first book, Malavita and still have battles with them now and the idea of complete autonomy over Too Close to the Sun fills me with excitement and even relief. I can do my own marketing (though no real plans for that, as yet, ideas welcome), set my own attractive pricing and be my own boss (almost).
So here I go.
Step one - another edit.
Step two - ready the manuscript to upload to Amazon Kindle, thanks to the invaluable article in Writers Forum Magazine (issue 140). They have made it seem very easy to do and I hope it is. I hate technology but if it as simple as they claim, it will save me paying upwards of £100 to format it ready for upload. Let's face it, £100 is a lot of books to sell to get the investment back.
I have my cover, thanks to friend Emma Lacey at Octopress and a fine and striking job she has done with it.
So, in theory - I'm all set...
