I am a prospecting author, I have been writing for my own amusement since I was a kid, and with the intent of getting published for the last decade. The published dream has always seemed far away as I continued to hone my craft and deciding on a story I wanted to work seriously on, but I now stand with a novel in my hand and I ask myself... what now? How do I get it published? I can't afford an editor, I wouldn't even know where to find one, so after some digging for alternatives, I thought it might be a good idea to establish myself. Get a platform, test the waters, see if people care for my writing and characters at all. Thus I ended up here.