A Long, Hard Road...
by Cash Pawley
(Florida)
Pray for Death (Original Cover)
Detective Fiction
Publishing a book didn't prove to be as hard, as it was long. Being my first publication, I had no idea where to even begin.
After writing the book (freehand), I started doing hours, and hours of research on the internet... Everything from Agents, to Query Letters, to Synopsis', to Summaries. "Holy smokes" I said to myself, "what have I gotten myself into!" At some times I would have 30 pages of searches and materials open on my computer at once (it froze up on me many times).
After months of research, and acquiring a general knowledge of how the whole industry works, I began to bring my project to life. Using this information, I submitted to 100's of Literary Agents, only to be politely turned down by all of them (most never even reqested more than the Query letter).
However, with much perseverance, I pressed on, determined to get my Novel in the hands of, well, Anyone! After many months of typing, I finally had gotten the Novel into a rough draft form using Microsoft Works. I then later formatted it to size, typesetting, Chapter layout, and a hundred other minute details to make it actually look like a book.
Then, I got a lucky break in one of my searches, and I discovered self-publishing. I had heard bad things about this type of publishing in my research, but something told me to give it a shot (just make sure that I did my homework on the companies that offer this service).
Well, now the fruits of my labor have paid off. The first book in my series (Pray for Death) is now published, and I am working on the second book in the series (Pray for Mercy). It took a couple of years to get to this point, but it was all well worth it...
Visit Cash's Lulu page.
