You know whatвЂ¦ You get to enjoy the book or not enjoy it. Then, you get people who think you should have done it differently, or they donвЂ™t like the content. You know who gets to enjoy the magic, the READERS, because the only thing that isnвЂ™t hard work when publishing a book is reading it for enjoyment. If I want social media posts, I have to do those too. If I want ads, I have to find the money to take out paid ads. If I want an audiobook, I have to record that audiobook. I have to edit and proofread that book, format it, design the cover, decide where and how it will be published. Once I finish a book, the real work begins. ThereвЂ™s no writing the book then sending it off for the team to finish. We are the CEOs, CFOs, vice presidents, writing talent, editors, proofreaders, advertising executives, artistic talent, web designer, article writer, coder/programmer, book formatter, book publisher, voice talent, janitors, maids and even the freaking cook. No one is providing a second set of eyes for edits, designing our covers, managing our social media, publishing our books, advertising or monitoring sales. On the off-chance that we have a little extra money or our books are selling amazingly well, we MIGHT be able to hire someone to do SOMETHING, but if we canвЂ™t, it all falls on us, especially self-published authors. We run every aspect of our author businesses ourselves.

IвЂ™m going to take some time out here to tell you what it is to be an author.

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