Newbie Author - This Chick's Journey to Becoming a Self-Published Author

Newbie Author - This chick's journey on becoming self-published author

Newbie Author – This Chick’s Journey to becoming a Self-Published Author

By Carolynne Raymond

 Copyright 2014 Lady Maverick Publishing

 Cover Design by Carolynne Raymond

 This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be re-sold.

 Introduction

 When I first started writing these blurbs, the thought about documenting my journey to create a book had never been intended. The thought was to create monthly posts, almost like having a blog but not having to actually commit to it. I chuckle as I write this because it sounds like I have commitment issues, but really the first thing to understand when you are writing stories is you need to focus your time on what matters and for me, I didn’t want to have to maintain a blog site but in another breath, I wanted to track my journey and I would ultimately share my monthly check-ins on my Facebook page and twitter. As these posts became regular, in the beginning, I had doubts on myself on if I would be able to commit to a journal entry every month, so to speak, but month after month rolled by and I was able to commit to the entries and from there, I eventually started to use wattpad to help me put it all together.

 A little bit about myself, I was born and raised in the Ottawa, Canada. I have a younger brother and sister. I am married to someone who keeps my head out of the clouds. I have one Maltese dog. Writing is a hobby for me (2 years into it) and I also love to be creative and enjoy photography, painting, gardening and doing some physical activity. When I am not working, you can find me curled up on the couch with a bowl of popcorn and watching the Bachelor, Bachelorette, Game of Thrones, Dallas and Ellen. Yes I know weird combination but know that I am a sucker for good laughs and also captivating stories.

 Besides reading and writing I love to play video games, yes I am a total nerd, I play World of Warcraft and I am a sucker for collecting the riding mounts in the game. For physical activity, I do a lot of walking; I also own a couple of kayaks and love to go out on the water. Swimming up at my parent’s camps as well as my parent in-laws retirement home is a must. I love to swim.

 Life at home is interesting. My husband and I are both Pisces and honestly I think that if we had our own reality television show it would be a hit. Like take what happened last week for instance. We had our energy efficient front end washer break. The first thing that happened was our clothes that were in the drum were trapped. I couldn’t get the door to unlock so I gave up for a bit, and then went back to it and to my amazement the door finally opened. I was like, yes! So what do I do? I figured it was just a hiccup with the machine and close the door again and re-run the load, when the rinse cycle came the machine stopped working again.

 My husband tried his best to come to the rescue. He opens the back of it because at this point we think there is a clog somewhere because the water isn’t draining. He grabs hold of the water drain pipe, pulls it from the pump and water comes gushing out, like really gushing out. He starts screaming at me, “What do I do?” I start getting the mop out but this water isn’t slowing and after a moment of being silly I finally say, “Can you re-connect the hose to make the water stop?”

 He does that and the water stops. We were tired, I blame fatigue for our lack of reason and after our basement flood we had to laugh and long story short, a repair man was contacted.

I think the best way to describe my personality is that I am shy and outgoing and I say this in one sentence. I am the type of person who struggles with starting up a conversation, I do force myself to and that is the shyness factor in me. I do have an outgoing side, I put things into action, I enjoy learning how to do things for myself and that is likely a huge factor as to why I decided to go through the self-publishing route. I enjoy seeing through a project from start to end. I published my first book, “A Life Cycle Reborn” on June 3, 2013. From 6 months leading to my published date and afterwards, I learned a lot in that there is much more to becoming an author and it is not just about being able to write a story. Over the months I have written of my experiences and have compiled them together in order to share. Each Chapter represents updates on my own journey over the months, this isn’t a how to book, this is a book of me sharing specifically what I did, my own trials, success and defeats into going the indie route in self-publishing a novel.

***News to come on the next chapters of my story. Happy writing everyone!