Writer’s Digest has compiled a list of the 101 best websites for writers. Writers can find everything here, from agent blogs to grammar help to inspirational quotes to gifts for the other writers in their lives. Check it out.
And while you’re there, take a spin around the Writer’s Digest site. It’s a very helpful site for all writers, no matter where they are in their career.
Your first step in creating a vision for your self-published book is to answer this question: Am I creating this book to fulfill a burning passion or am I doing it to make a buck? Am I in it for the love or the money?
There is no right or wrong answer to this question. Or rather, you are the only one who knows what the right answer is for you. But once you know the answer, it guides you through a lot of other questions you’ll be asked (and you will need to ask yourself).
But wait! I can hear you saying, I want to do both. I love what I am writing about, and I want to make money too. Most authors, especially the ones who self publish, are motivated by a combination of love and money. As someone working them, I won’t have it any other way.
Let’s take a trip along the For Love or Money continuum.
“I always used to think that publishers had to be devilish intelligent fellows, loaded with the grey matter, but I’ve got their number now. All a publisher has to do is write cheques at intervals, while a lot of deserving and industrious chappies rally round and do the real work. I know because I have been one myself. I simply sat tight in the old flat with a fountain pen, and in due season a topping, shiny book came along.”
