After more than 6 years of helping Authors through Scribe, I can tell you that every Author goes through it. The book ended up being profiled by The New York Times and is now required reading at several addiction recovery centers. Last but not least, there are a few unrealistic expectations about being an Author that I see a lot.

If you don’t have that training, your cover isn’t going to look great—it’s going to look like it was put together by an amateur (because it was). An alternative reason for going down the anonymous path is when an established author wants to test the market by trying out a different genre entirely.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Purple Parrot Press FRIEND I Wrote This Book About YOU: Prompted Fill In The Blank Journal For What I Love About my FRIEND. Plus, once your draft is done, you still need to go through the process of self-editing and then professional editing. Often readers were positively discouraged from imagining that the author was a woman, take George Elliott as an example.

I would give anything to know that story—who she was, what she thought, and why she did what she did. You can sort of find out about it if you ask other authors around, but when you’re starting out it’s hard to really know other authors—which I fortunately do know now!

I lost some money because of the Red Wedding, but full disclosure the book is looking like it will break even in a few months (even accounting for the sharp drop off that is gonna continue for a while). Depending on the business you have and the way you’re using your book, it’s entirely possible to make millions of dollars from it. For a book you need to stand by the book when it’s being shitty, when it doesn’t want to go where you want to, when it’s being stubborn and its blank pages are staring you in the eye daring you to say a word, any word, but you know whatever you’d say would be wrong.