What’s it like to have your first book published?
Amanda Gaddis is a writer. As a free lance writer for the web, she writes those posts that tell you how to plant flowers, live on the tundra and build a hovercraft in your spare time.
And her first novel is to be released this fall. Getting a book published is a long process. First you write it, send it out to publishers until someone gives a you contract, make revisions, do line edits (the comma on page 32 should be a period), print a mock up, print a few books, send them for reviews, market them on the web and through book distributers. And you’re published, and out of breath.
Why write a book that is sci-fi, fantasy and a bit wacky? Amanda ascribes it to having her father read Tolkien to her when she was a child. Sure she had some nightmares but look at how imaginative she became.