Getting, and giving back - Mari Biella
It’s been over eighteen months since I first dipped my toe into the self-publishing ocean, and it’s been quite a journey. I’ll be the first to admit that I wasn’t particularly well-prepared at the outset. If any potential self-publishers were to ask my advice now, the first thing I’d tell them would be to learn everything they possibly could before they hit that ‘publish’ button: to trawl the internet for information, speak to self-publishers, and know precisely what they wanted and what they could realistically hope to achieve. It wouldn’t necessarily be plain sailing, and self-publishing is one of those activities you learn by doing. But forewarned is forearmed, and at least then they’d have a reasonable idea what to expect. Hindsight’s a wonderful thing. As I say, at the start of my journey I was rather unprepared. I stumbled around, searching for the right road, and there were a few surprises along the way - some discouraging, and some so disconcerting that I once or twice c...