A Cry For Help Now On Amazon

It's been almost a year since I published my book. So almost a year later I have some news and some thoughts to share on the topic.

First, My Book Loud Mouth is now available on Amazon. When I published it came with distribution plan that came with the mandatory ISBN. This also gives me the ability to get it in local stores. Why a year later? A divorce, new job, new boyfriend, new house, new puppy, and new outlook on life kept me busy enough to procrastinate my end of the deal. So when I realized it had been almost a year and I should get my butt in gear with final edits and the distribution I got to work. And after the folks at Amazon fiddled around with it for a bit taking it out to lunch, and movies in such, getting to know it a bit and make sure there was no child pornography and military secrets inside they approved it and there I was on the big screen. (Like big computer screen, well depending on the size of your monitor.)

Second, I find now that I have mixed feelings about the book. My writing has grown immensely since I published it, and in some ways find reading the old material to be a bit painful or perhaps even a bit if an embarrassing show of my current works worth. I published the book not as a money making venture but as a way to grab everything I had package it up nicely and be able to hold in my had something I accomplished that was mine. Something I finished.

It's funny because often when I am introduced to people by friends or fellow writers they make the comment "Katie "SELF PUBLISHED" A book." I want to finish the conversation explaining that I also, that day, "Self Showered" "Self Wiped" and "Self Fed" because let's face it I'm not helpless. I've never tried to hide the fact that the book was self published, but at some point I find the humor in people feeling the NEED to attach "self published." I had every intent to self publish this book and never even considered going a different route. I am well aware of the fact anyone can self publish a book. You could type the word shit a million time get it all bound up with a nice cover featuring a cover of a stinky dump and call yourself published. A Writer I used to know would say, self publishing isn't for writers it's for entrepreneurs. I disagree I think it all depends on what the writer is looking to get out of the publishing experience.

So in the end I got what I wanted out of it. I got something that was mine, something with my name on it and my voice in it. Something I could hold in my hand. It might be funny to you, or as a few of my family members described it "Katie's cry for help." Either way I laughed when writing it, and people tend to laugh when they read it so mission accomplished even if I did "self publish"



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