I made some money writing. I could comfortably earn up to $250 per month writing articles and ebooks and editing on the side. I started my first blog on writing, Finish That Novel!, and published my first bestseller, a steampunk novella called Automaton that I had originally written for the NaNoWriMo writing challenge the past November.

I realized that I wasn't a total flop, and that self-publishing was a lot cooler (and more fun!) than I had imagined at first. My biggest challenge was in figuring out what caused some writers to succeed so abundantly and learn how to replicate their success on my own.

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Then life happened. My husband and I bought our first house, and it was a fixer-upper. I had to quit my job writing for a real-life day job teaching English in a local school. The strain grew from there. I missed the flexibility of choosing my work, the freedom to learn more about my craft and become better at it.

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Years passed.

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I experimented. I tried things out. I advertised. I made mistakes. Eventually, I started studying the success stories of others. What decisions did these authors make? What principles did they operate on? What set them apart from the rest of the crowd?

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My goal at Pen And Glory is to help great writers succeed in publishing. I want you to be able to magnify and optimize your success in the competitive world of ebook selling, attract readers to your book like flies to a lightbulb, and turn a quick profit while you're at it. I believe self-publishing is fun, exciting, and a great opportunity all-around.

 

Let's get started!