ISO publishing coach

I am shopping around for a publishing coach, because I don't seem to know how to get myself published.

I'm serious about this writing thing. Even if I have to self-publish, I want to find a way to get my words out there and not beg my friends to buy my books. I know I'm not going to make a lot of money on this (breakeven from all the coaching and stuff would be nice, though). I dream of being well-known and well-liked, but this may not happen either. But I want to be read.

Jackie Kibler, one of my colleagues and a motivational speaker, has gotten me started on this venture. She, like I, think the traditional agent-publisher route is broken by too many writers vs too few publishers. Like any situation where there's a limited number of sellers/producers (otherwise known as an oligopoly), competition in the marketplace is that of branding, not of price or innovation. The marketplace of ideas is no exception.

So I am working on something new. Send happy thoughts and encouragement.

More about the move.

I want to attract attention. Not because I'm an attention hog, although I love it when people pay attention to me, but because I want people to read my works. Why else would I post them on my writing blog or on Wattpad? (Note: I am currently hosting a selection of short stories from the Archetype universe at Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/user/lleachie is the address.)

In the marketplace of ideas, I'm told, things have to look pretty. It's a long way from the days when I wrote poetry in my notebook in pencil and tore out the pages to show my eighth grade teacher. (I still have those pages. They're barely readable.) 

Toward that end, I made this much prettier and more readable blog. I will be doing the same thing here, and there is also a link to the old Blogger file above (At the top, under the header, labeled "Blogger" in case there are old favorites you want to read.

So, I hope this entry is seeing you all well and happy, and I really want you to become a frequent visitor to this site, and to have others join you. And please talk back! I really want to hear from you.

 Again, you can now find me on https://lleachie.wixsite.com/website, and I hope you will follow me there and make me a happy writer!