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Cinorjer
Hey Tom. I'm poking around, and realized there is this private activity thing here that I missed. If you're still interested in trying to self publish something, I can answer a few questions. How ya doing, anyway? It's hot, hot summertime here and global warming has people over 100 degrees now with bad storms.
Hey thanks for the extensive reply Cinorjer. I understand that if you are going to self publish, you really need to do a whole lot of marketing and advertising yourself, getting your name 'out there.' I am on a couple of book/author forums already but apart from that I would not really know many websites to use, apart from facebook *sigh*
My book will be vastly short on text as it would be a poetry book and mostly graphic. I really like the sound of designing book covers because that would not take a large amount of time and I have a good eye for layout design according to my old lecturer at uni.
I am looking into kindle fire which I was only privy to today, and also createspace. The problem is, if I am totally honest I am nieve when it comes to coming to deals and working out financial aspects of it all, I would not really know where to start. I understand that if you are writing aa novel you first need to either send a manuscript or a few chapters to an agent (I think so anywa