Introduction

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before...

You have a manuscript that or even a concept you’ve been working on, a project that’s been slowly consuming your every thought. It’s a project with so many possibilities – could it become a play, a novel, a collection of essays, even? – that no sooner has it taken up permanent residency inside your mind, you begin to make a special place for it inside your heart.

You become passionate about it this idea, this manuscript, this concept. So you get to work. You spend every available waking hour writing, pouring your thoughts onto the screen for fear of losing an idea. And after many days and nights writing, rewriting, editing, moving parts around and trimming away the fat to reveal fresh copy, you have finally come to a stopping point, the last period has been typed. You’re finished!

A feeling of euphoria has overtaken you, much like when a person finds new love. And like most people who have found “The One” you want to tell the world, shout it out from the rooftops so that the entire universe can hear like some mad scientist: It’s alive!

You’re talking about your baby, your pride and joy.

It’s your story.

Little did you know that all that writing, all those long nights editing and losing sleep? That was only the beginning. It’s now time to share your story with the world.

No problem, you might think. After all, you’re living in a time of social media, the digital world where information can be shared and spread across the planet faster than Donald Trump can Tweet 140 characters at 5 am.

The question now is where do you start? There are different routes to take on the publishing expressway. Do you start sending out hundreds of query letters to publishers that might be interested and wait months and months for them to respond, only to find out that they only work with writers who have either A. been published before or B. work with a literary agent? Did you send similar letters to literary agents only to find that they only work with authors who have been published?

​I know how this feels.

When I finished my first children's book, Night Rhythms, I knew that I had something good on my hands, a project that I believed in. I read it out loud to kids, volunteered at local schools for read-a-longs and even bribed my local Barnes & Noble to let me read my story during their weekly story time. And the response was awesome!

My next step was to share Night Rhythms with the world. And when I typed in the phrase "Self Publishing" in my Google search window, my heart nearly sank. There were 7.5 million results (found in 0.52 seconds, mind you). I clicked on countless links, exploring company after self-publishing company. All of them forced me to choose some type of self-publishing package, which essentially put my project in a box, marginalizing my project according to price. And the price? Let's just say that some of these companies expected me to take out a loan to pay for their services..

Tell Your Story is a class designed to teach you how to self-publish your project on your own without breaking the bank. You'll learn how to take the reigns and have full control, step-by-step, of your project and see it go from desktop to store shelf to the pages of Amazon and every other major online retailer where books are sold. 


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