Publishing your first book feels like going to the casino for the first time. You are filled with the optimistic chance that you might win, although logic tells you that the odds are heavily stacked against you.

The process takes about a year to unravel. If you want a quick fix, visit the mall for some retail therapy. Get used to adopting to the long view. While you wait for the stars to line up, the drudgery carries on, and bills still need to be payed.

As an exercise you have no idea what you are letting yourself in for. The starstruck creatives are blindly ambitious, which can be perilous and sometimes naive. The internet is full of good advice, but never when you need it most, and every poephol has an opinion.

If you can endure the torturous red tape, bureaucratic bungling and politically charged, load shedding, customs delaying, business environment of South Africa, then you really have insight to this countries inner workings.  The cost of doing business is high, and takes its toll on your sense of humour. I caught myself several times trying to convince myself, that going the publisher route, would have been wiser. I would just pinch myself again.

So despite all the blue marks we have done it! It has all culminated with a book launch. We sold and signed books nogal, now that’s a good feeling hard to describe.

 

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