Author: leilani

My kids and my husband are all extremely supportive of my venture into the publishing arena. (Read: they’re asking me WTF took me so long, whilst cheerfully telling everybody they know about the book.) As it turns out, my oldest son has kept up a long-running conversation with a very high profile author in the…

Yay! The publisher has my book online for sale. They said it takes another 4 to 6 weeks to hit other outlets, but I’m not going to stress over that. I am just doing the ebook format for the moment, but think I will probably also bite the bullet and do print-on-demand a la CreateSpace….

I did it. I pulled the trigger over the weekend and submitted the book for publication. I don’t know what kind of time frame is involved. If it were on Amazon alone it would probably have gone live right away, but I opted for a more circuitous and (hopefully) wider-distribution outlet. I signed up on…

I gave my friend a deadline of the 10th, for a lot of reasons. The cover image isn’t done, but y’all get to see why I chose to wait this long on her. This is the work in progress: I have some very talented friends,  as you can see. (You should also check out Hil…

I am STILL waiting for the cover artwork for my book. I hate to press because yeah, you can’t really hurry art, and I’m getting it essentially for “free”. By the same token, it’s been a month and I haven’t seen so much as a prototype, and I am trading my editing for the work…