Write 2 Be

Okay so I am a little frustrated. It is the beginning of February and I still don’t have a book cover for my novel that I want to come out by June. This is the time for me to start marketing my book and I don’t have a cover to do it with. Not only that I don’t have a written press release yet and the same person who is supposed to write my press release is also writing my back of the book blurb and surprise surprise, that’s not done yet either. I feel like I have way too far to go in regards to getting this book out and I halfway feel like giving up but that’s not me. I am not a quitter and I have come too far to give up now. I just wish I at least had a cover. I want my cover artists to put a fire under her butt and respond to me more often and act like I am paying her because I am paying her, and more than what I really have to pay. But I guess good work takes time right. What I have seen thus far of her work, I like but I would just like a few corrections to be made and a few more samples to choose from. Who knew that trying to publish a book would be this nerve wracking? I guess I have a great deal more of respect for the agents and publisher’s who have already begun making a good living at doing this because if they have to go through this much work and all the author has to do is wait for the marketing and printing and everything else to be done and they don’t have to actually deal with the headache themselves. I’m starting to wonder if I really want to deal with this instead of just being able to write the work and then leave it up to someone else. I had to want to give this kind of a chance to other unknown authors. I just hope that I do well with my own books to start out with so that I can be able to help others get their work published as well. I think that maybe I should start writing for some grant money to maybe see if I can get help with funding for my company but then again in this devastating economy right now I’m not sure that would happen anyway. Well I know that I will not give up in my pursuit to make what I want happen. I guess I will just have to wait until my end result of my Novel is complete and then I can see that all of my hard work was not for nothing. Until the next time I write, Be Blessed!

Jimmetta Carpenter

“The Diary: Succession of Lies” (Coming Late Spring)

Writing as “Jaycee Durant”

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I love the idea of blogging and reading blogs. Being able to see what other people are going through, other writers in particular, is in some ways therapeutic for me. It is nice to know that my trials and tribulations are not as bad as they sometimes seem. I have been working on one novel or another since I was in high school and at the age of twenty eight I still don’t have a finished novel to show for it. Now I have four poetry books (only one published but not mainstream). Well this year that will change. I will finally release my first novel this spring and I am doing it all myself. I have my own publishing company that I am trying to get off the ground so I am doing all of the work of publishing my book myself, and with no regular job that is not an easy feat. Right now I am going through the extremely exhausting process of self-publishing my first novel (The Diary: Succession of Lies) and it is so much more involved with self-publishing than I could have ever imagined. The writing is done and for the most part so is the editing. My cover is currently being designed and I already have my block of ISBN #’s so I am in some ways more ready than some would be. Now the hard part is becoming the monetary part of trying to figure out a way to get the review copies and to actually get the books and the main part would be to try and throw together my book release party which I feel I so deserve for all of my hard work. I know that my novel is good and I want more than anything to get it out there so the main thing I am focused on at this very moment, aside from pulling the money together, is marketing and trying to promote my book. I have published an ezine since 2006 called Free Fall and I am now discovering that that can’t be the only thing I use to get my name out there. That is one of the reasons I wanted to start this blog. I wanted to get the word out there about me and about my book but I also needed this blog to keep me on track. I feel as though sometimes I am not being my most productive self and in using this blog to track my progress on the road to becoming a published auther I am certain that it will help me to hold myself accountable. So anyone reading this can feel free to post comments or ask questions and keep me remaining productive and hold me accountable. And to all of the writers out there, keep writing. I’ll write again soon. Be blessed!