Beginning

I had my conversation on Monday with a nice lady who’s going to be my contact at the company that’ll be publishing First. It’s exciting to finally have the process underway.

She didn’t try to sell me on other services as much as I expected, which was a nice surprise. The publishing site caters to writers all over the world, as you must do these days, and I made an appointment on their site for a rep to call me at a time I set where I had an opening on my work calendar. Their site says the conversation will take 15 minutes but it was closer to a half-hour, which was fine. The rep created a quote based on the information I gave her and the publishing package I prefer, and right away it appeared within the Quotes section of my login to their site. Because First is longer than the usual novel, currently clocking in at about 124k words, the cost is a little higher than a regular 75-90k word novel, but not too much.

All I have to do now is finish my final, final pass and upload the manuscript. I don’t think I’ll be done by today but tomorrow is fine. I’ll let you know how that process goes.