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I tried the "traditional" way until I accumulated 50 rejection notices. Then I turned to self-publishing. I put two books out on Amazon using their Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP). It's free to sign up with and practically painless. They give you software to download, called Kindle Create that helps you format your book the way you want it. Add pictures, chapter delineation, numbering, and all that. Then click "Publish." Amazon does the rest. You get a free ISBN number, plus your novel is available around 24 hours later. The paperback option take a couple of days.From first loading my novel into KC to seeing it on an Amazon page was around 36 hours.

They only require you give them a bank account (I made mine a secondary account to my savings account) so they can put royalties into it. If you go over $100 a year in royalties, you'll get a tax notice for when you file as well.

Bill

Booksie is similar to (and administered by the same person) as TNBW. The members tend to be much younger and, thus, your reviews might reflect that fact. I've been a member there (it's free) for quite some time now -- longer even than TNBW.

Bill

Did you read the one-star review?

Bill

The window key has a keycap with four equally divided squares on it. Usually way over on the lower left next to the left CTRL key.

Bill

Excellent, Randall. That's quite a string of successful books.

Bill

You might also investigate the firm that produces editing software that is second to none in my estimation. I've been using ProWritingAid for over a decade and love it. The site is simply "prowritingaid.com" (without the quotes). They have a product that integrates with Word as an add-in. It contains a number of "tests" or reports you can run against your work on-the-fly if you so desire. It can also be used by choosing a report singly. Be aware it is payware, but definitely helps. They provide an on-site editor as well that is free to try out. There are size limitations involved if you use it, but it is fully functional. Their customer support is wonderful if you should need help. I've had a lifetime account there since 2014. This is, by far, the best option to guard against inflation. I am glad I did as the cost has doubled since I bought mine, but I retained my full privileges.

Bill

While you're at it, Sol,, perhaps you could also fix the "logout when deleting a spammer's account" bug. I had to log in SEVEN times this morning to get rid of seven spammers. If you want me to continue getting rid of these spammers, FIX THE BUG!

Bill

RANT AHEAD:

I am really, really pissed off! I spent over fifteen minutes creating a post concerning my latest novel and when I went to post it, I found I was logged out! This random logging out issues needs to be found and FIXED! And, then I find out that when I was told "you don't have permission to post here" because of the logout, I CANNOT get back to the page I was working on. This stinks!
END RANT

Bill

I've had it happen both ways - delete or suspend.

Bill

Is anything being done concerning the logout problem?

Bill

Dirk and I (and others) are moderators. We have a special access that lets cancel memberships.

Bill

SOL: could you please look into why we keep getting logged out every time we close an account? This has been an ongoing thing for quite a while and, frankly, become quite annoying! There were 5 accounts in a row I deleted today and after every one of them I had to log in again.

Bill