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Date: 6/29/2004 5:41:31 PM
Written By:
Paula Hines Lonergan
Subject: Best way to go
I wrote my book in one month. I started June 10 and
finished the whole story on July 10. I thought because it was
about my father who was portrayed in the Disney movie
"Remember the Titans" that all the publishers would jump on
the manuscript. My father was on the Ed Sullivan show, he
bodyguarded for Martin Luther King, Jr., and played at
Eisenhower's inauguration, the first black band to ever be
invited to do so. However, I soon came to see that it wasn't
easy to get a big publisher to bite. So I sat on the
manuscript for a while. Then, took a class and it gave me all
the steps to publish the book myself, so that's what I did.
Within four months of starting the self-publishing route, my
book "A Titan of a Man" was published and I presented it as a
surprise anniversary gift to my parents. I'm proud to say I
did it ALL myself and defintely encourage others to follow
that pathway if they will maintain the motivation and desire
to get their project out there. My second book "Babies Dribble
and Drool" just came out. I self-published that too. My next
book is coming out in a few months. I'm doing it all myself
again. Once you do the first one, the initial costs involved
with starting a publishing company aren't there anymore, so it
was cheaper to do my second book because I am already an
established publishing company. Those are my thoughts.
Self-publishing is the way to go as far as I am
concerned.
Regards,
Paula Hines Lonergan
Writer,
Motivational Speaker, and Author of A Titan of a Man and
Babies Dribble and Drool.
http://www.prlpub.com
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