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I arrived at the decision to self-publish only after much deliberation about what to do next. You see, I had no plan and no idea how to publish or market that which I’d spent months writing. My single goal was to finish the book. But my WORD document didn’t look like a book; it didn’t have a cover with pages in between. I turned to the internet and by a sheer click of luck I found a writers meeting in my city and the featured speaker was from Lightning Source, a POD company for self-publishing.

I am so grateful I was led to that meeting. The speaker held up a paperback book and announced he had a plan for authors. I was an author and I needed a plan, so I quickly raised my hand. The speaker responded to my waving arm, “I promise I’ll take questions at the end.” I pulled my arm down and begin to write every word he spoke. I took notes in scribble format without regard to legibility. All I cared about was the speaker had a plan; I needed one, and his included publishing.