Welcome to Blogging A to Z! My theme this year is Going Indie. I hope you enjoy it. Don't forget to check out the other participating blogs.
Decisions. Decisions. Decisions.
I knew, but I didn't know, you know?
Going in, I anticipated that going indie would put a lot more decisions in my hands that had previously been decided by my publisher:
- editions to be created: paperback? hardback? audiobook?
- release date: as fast or as slow as I'm capable of and want
- editor selection: who do I want to work with and can afford?
- cover art: who do I want to work with and can afford? what should my cover look like?
- layout/formatting decisions: more here than I expected: size, type of paper, font, drop caps, header style, section breaks (I'm using Vellum and going pretty basic so far)
- blurb language: I usually did write this myself, but now I have the final say
- price: this part is cool--especially if I want to discount to participate in a promotion. It's totally up to me!
- printing and distribution options: going wide? focusing on Amazon? using Ingram? Trying out other printers?
- review copies and distribution: who gets an early peek? Do we do NetGalley or other paid services?
- corrections/revisions to the text: getting those fixed is one my timeline now
- imprint/branding
- author pages: website, Amazon, Goodreads, BookBub, etc.
There is a bit of decision fatigue…and it is difficult to balance time for handling all these decisions alongside actually writing and creating new work.
Mostly, I've been pretty excited to decide on all these things. Of course, that means there's no one but myself to blame for the decisions that turn out to be bad ones, but then I get all the credit for good ones, too.
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