Being published is an incredible feeling and can be nerve wrecking as well. Now, that your book is out there, you start to wonder how great of story it is and what people will think of it. Getting it published wasn't an easy task as well. You have to go through the process of being rejected by publishing house after another. Then once a publishing house wants to publish your story, you have to go through contracts and all the other paperwork. Once that's done, you start working on your cover with an artist. Once, everyone is agreed on the cover, you move on to the editing process. Don't be alarm of seeing a lot of red marks on your product. I know a few times I had thoughts I was a bad writer, but in reality it was just a chance to learn the skill. I was used to writing stories for creative writing classes and for myself. After many turns in the editing process, your book gets passed on to the copyediting step to get the final polish. After that, you book is published. It took almost two years to get my first book published, but after seeing it available for everyone to purchase and read. The final nerve wrecking thing is the reviews. You pray you get a lot of good reviews to help pet your ego, but it's not a bad thing to get a bad review. It's called a learning curve. You just learn and keep going or keep following your dream.
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So, yesterday was the official day when my first book was released and published. I saw on January 1, 2015 that it was on Barnes and Nobles and Amazon. It was both exciting and nerve wrecking to see it for sale. I pretty much screamed it from the mountain tops as all my friends and family were the first to know of it being on such sites. Now, that it's available anywhere, especially the publishing house website, for download. The next step is the nerve-wrecking reviews. You hope that everyone loves it and no one gives you a bad review. Will check in a few weeks to see how thing go.
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AuthorBorn in Denver, Colorado, Dawn L. Lubertowicz spent most of her formative years traveling the world with her family, during which time she learnt about many different cultures. In 1990 the Persian Gulf War brought all of that to an end and she moved back to the United States with her mother and her older sister. Finally, she married and settled in the small town of Tunkhannock with her husband, Jason, and their ‘furry children’, Storm, Zack, Clark, and Fudge. Archives
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