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Making Choices to Change My Business Model
Altering my path as an authorpreneur
When I first began to self-publish, I used CreateSpace. Via this fantastic website, I could format both an eBook (Kindle) and paperback for publication — mostly to Amazon.
I started slowly. It began with some of my nonfiction works. This, in time, would be moved to a separate name (I’m published under 2 names — one for fiction and one for nonfiction). But it also led me to start publishing my first love — fiction.
As I’ve written before, I started writing sci-fi when I was 9 years old. On a shelf in my office are both the original handwritten, hand-drawn 50-page illustrated book and a bound color copy my dad made of Wildfire.
I’d attempted to get it published. Vanity, to some degree — but also a prelude of a recurrent theme.
Not long after I started publishing my fiction, CreateSpace became part of Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). This has several cool advantages — and like CreateSpace, everything can be done for free.
Still, I know the importance of professional editing and learned why paying a cover artist is wise. Although the process of uploading and formatting the Kindle eBook and paperback is free and easy — there are still costs involved in self-publishing.
