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Publishing A Book Is So Much Fun!

Publishing a book is slowly killing me.

I swear, I had no idea how much work there could be. I already wrote the book. It's nearly ready, I just need to work on the final revisions. I thought that was the hard part, but oh dear lord, it was definitely not.

I may have already mentioned this, but I'm self-publishing. Maybe it's masochism, maybe it's the fact that self-publishing looked the most attainable, but that's what I decided. That leaves the work of editing, marketing, cover design, and all the stressful - I mean - fun stuff, to me.

The current challenge I'm facing is cover design. There is no way on earth that I would be capable of designing my own cover, so I decided to use a website where people post services, and you can hire them online. Then, you communicate with the seller, let them know what you want, they do it, you pay the, voila. It would be so, so easy, if only I knew what I actually wanted my cover to look like. I don't. Let me tell you, it's really hard to tell someone what you want your cover to look like when you can barely describe the plot of your book when someone asks.

So, I contacted one of the sellers. They were listed pretty cheap, so I reached out and asked her how long it would take. She answered, we got to discussing details, and I finally got an idea of what I wanted. Finally! After months of painstaking research of book covers, I got an idea.

Then, she boosted the price. By $150. Sigh.

Well, tune in next week to get the scoop on whatever struggling I'm facing by then!
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