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Publishing: Traditional - Hybrid - Self-Publishing

 So you've got a manuscript and you are thinking about publishing. Now what? In sharing how my book came about I thought I would share a little about the publishing process as experienced by a beginner. This is not advice- this is just the process I went through. When I completed the draft of my book I thought that was a major accomplishment. In fact, It was. Setting a goal and achieving it is always a big accomplishment, but I hadn't thought a lot about publishing it until I was done. I had given the manuscript to a couple of people to read and had sought some editorial input. A couple of significant revisions had been completed and now it was done.  Right? Not really. Through the writing process I always had publishing in the back of my mind but I didn't have a hot clue about the process. I started to learn about querying and how the publishing industry works. I was like a fish out of water. I quite literally didn't know what I didn't know. As I began to learn I r

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