Writing - the ups and downs

I'm learning the ins and outs of putting my novel on Amazon as an ebook for Kindle. I'm nervous and I'm excited. I'm ready to  copyright my book and do all the other endless things needed. I'm doing another nervous run through making sure there are no mistakes. Wish me luck on that one! I've looked at book covers all day until my eyes feel crossed. I've found some wonderful sites if anyone is interested. My daughter is helping me go through covers and I'm making a last minute change to the title. I pray I'm making the right decision about that. This whole process is a little intimidating. I'm much more confident and self assured when I'm writing. Publishing or getting ready for publication is way out of my field. I'd always thought if I ever published a book it would be with a big publisher who would do all the work for me. But the world of publishing is changing and so many doors are opening for authors with internet ...

Just a quick update on my progress reading through HUNGRY FOR CHOCOLATE. Since getting the BOLD print debacle corrected, things are going along much more smoothly with the story. I'm going to skip back to the story behind HUNGRY because of a few questions I received. That manuscript was with an excellent literary agent for four years. It didn't sell after repeated efforts. It may be that the story was before its time. That's why my next marketing efforts will be directed at a publisher in WV. Its tone is distinctly West Virginian. HUNGRY is set in WV and is about a surrogacy gone wrong. The main character, Vada Faith Waddell, wants to make some extra money - she can't seem to make enough for a down payment from her job at the beauty shop for a down payment on a new home out in the fancy subdivision of Crystal Springs -SO she decides to answer an ad in the local paper and become a surrogate mother. She figures it can't be all that hard. She already has a set of six y...