My heart is in my mouth as I write this blog. Mrs Brown, kindle version, will be published today. Please press the blue link to access your nearest Amazon store if you want to buy my book.
It has been a journey of prevarication, nerves, new skills and set-backs and these don’t even cover the writing process. Now with all buttons pressed there is no going back and Mrs Brown won’t be languishing at the bottom of a dusty drawer, her pages yellow and curling, she’ll be out in the sunshine, on a beach, under a tree in the shade and she’ll love every minute.
In the end, the writing of my first novel has been the least fraught part of this whole Indie publishing process. I didn’t know how little I knew before I started and how overwhelmed I would become during the editing, proofing, re-jigging, tweaking and checking of my manuscript. The publishing part has involved lots of tears, several beers and a couple of tantrums on my part from sheer frustration. The hardest task has been connecting the dots, signing readers up to my mailing list, sending out newsletters and emails to anyone who maybe interested in my novel. Writing a blog is relatively straightforward but the setting up of targeted recipients is harder. My whiteboard is a spiderweb of connections to ensure one app/site talks to the other, the receiver receives and the sender sends. And the rule changes, several times I’ve set up a pathway according to the instructions, youtubes and FAQ’s only for the parent company to update their conditions ‘for ease of access’. Humph!
The paperback proof copy is on my desk and it has some anomalies. I’m not sure how parts of chapters move from one place to another, or the indents manage to wander across the page. Another skill to master and I will, but perhaps not today, today is for celebrating raising a glass of something bubbly and a snack of something sweet before I put my head down and write my next book, fabulous ideas are swirling as I write.
Enjoy Mrs Brown.
Jacqueline P Vincent 
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