After writing my book I took a self-congratulatory tour to Smugsville. Where I continued to pat myself on the back and praise myself for having finally finished my first novel.
I had written 90,000+ words. That was a lot! I’d arranged them into neat little sentences that I then had turned into paragraphs and proceeded to position perfectly on over 300 pages.
I was an author! Yay!
Soon I would be a New York Times best-selling author!
Soon I would be hanging out with JK Rowling.
Soon Stephen Spielberg would be on the phone wanting to buy the film rights.
Very soon I realised that for any of that to happen my book had to be on a bookshelf, in a bookstore and not on the desk in front of me!
Very, very soon I realised I had no idea how I was going to get it there!
Sarah T Wright 
Hahaha. What a great and honest train of thought, because that’s exactly what writers discover when they realise completing the novel is just the first step. I just want to write, but then I learned there’s editing, pitching, marketing, and who knows what else. Wishing you all the best!
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Thanks Stuart. There is a long road ahead 😊
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You’ve captured what all new independent authors feel after completing their books in this piece. And now the work of marketing the book begins. You’re on a new journey now with endless forks in the road. You’ll veer off and backtrack numerous times, but hopefully you’ll find the right road in marketing and advertising to land your creation in the hands of readers who will appreciate all your hard work. Congrats!
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Thank you 😊 Becoming an author has been a long journey. Thank you for joining me on it.
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