When I was 17, I finished my first novel. I wrote constantly my whole life, from short stories, poems, and plenty of half-started novels. Without getting too much in detail about my whole life, I always knew I wanted to be a writer. In future posts, I’ll focus more directly on my writing process and marketing. This post will be focus on how I started publishing and things that I attribute to the successes I’ve had. The scariest most honest thing about the publishing industry, whether you self-publish or sign with a traditional publisher or both, is that some books sell and some books don’t, and most of the time, nobody really knows why or how to make it happen again. In fact, it doesn’t mean that I have the same results. I can tell you the things that I did – and I will tell you all the things I did – but that doesn’t mean that you or anyone else will have the same results. Those posts are older, so I’m doing this as updated post.īefore I do, there is one thing I want to emphasis: There is no magic hand. I’ve done similar things in the past, as seen in these posts: An Epic Tale of How it All Happened, There is No Magic Hand, and Some Things That Need to Be Said. So I thought it would be easiest if I just wrote out at long posts explaining everything, and then I can direct people to these posts instead of writing out individual replies each time. The reason is that I still get a lot of questions about publishing, writing, and how I did/do what I did/do. This is going to be the first post in a three part series about writing/publishing that I’m doing.

Hollowland by Amanda Hocking