The Wonderful World of Self-publishing

_ I attended my first Willamette Writer conference August, 2011, went to Jane Friedman's workshop on e-publishing, decided to give up trying to get the NY publishing gods to buy at least one of the six books I've written, and went the e-publishing route. I discovered BookBaby (www.Bookbaby.com) at the conference and used them for conversion and cover art. I like the job they did, and they are very easy to work with. So far self-publishing has been a rewarding experience, and I like the artistic control it offers. (About the same time I saw the PBS documentary on Woody Allen and how he has always maintained artistic control over all his projects. I thought, well, I can, too, with self-publishing.) I now follow Dick Lutz's column in the WW newsletter with avid interest. I follow Jane Friedman on her web site: www.JaneFriedman.com. She offers good, prolific advice. And my writer friend, Valerie Wilcox, (www.ValerieWilcoxWrites.com)who told be about the e-publishing workshops in the first place, supplies me with endless lists of web sites to check out. After listening to Jane Friedman, my head turned away from books in print to digital books. It was like an epiphany. For Christmas I bought my husband a Kindle Fire (fabulous little electronic device, of course, I use it) and myself an Ipod. Yes, I read books on an Ipod. But you can also download digital books to your PC through free aps. I'm on a roll. I'm not looking back.