self publishing - Brenda Lee Free

self publishing

A collection of 6 posts

The 8 Hours it Took to Read 'Our Interrupted Fairy Tale"

The 8 Hours it Took to Read 'Our Interrupted Fairy Tale"

Megan wrote this in her blog about meeting me: Before we parted ways, I offered to send her home with a book. Her cat shaped, blue eyes looked at me with the same semi-apologetic expression I would have given her if she would have asked me the same question, “No

The Year of the Book

It's been an amazing year. 112 backers. 443 books sold or donated. 1 book award. 12 events. 1 year ago was book launch day. Thanks to 112 Kickstarter backers, my memoir was brought to life a year ago and since then, 443 books have been sold, donated or

The Plight of the Self Published Author

I wish I had made my Kickstarter goal $10,000 so I could have hired an agent and pitched my book to publishers and have let them do all the work. I'd still have had to market it myself, but then all the logistics of actually being able

Book Launch Week

On Saturday, March 22, I officially launched my first book, Ebb from the Shoreline - Finding Cancer and Courage. It's been a long 5 year journey writing this memoir which is the love story of my late husband and I, mirrored against the blogs I wrote when Kevin

Kickstarter Accepted - Project Launches Sunday

On Sunday, check back here for the link to my Kickstarter campaign. It was approved by the Kickstarter staff and from September 29-October 28, 2013 you can pledge anything from $1 to $2500 to support editing, publishing, printing and marketing my love and loss memoir. We have to hit $5,

Tears, Widows, and the Memoir

As I told the story of how I came to be a widow, I felt the tears well up in my eyes, my throat closing. Just as I was recalling how Kevin had asked me to stay at Johns Hopkins that night, and the next morning I could feel his