For years I have been writing stories, a mix of fantasy and science fiction. I’ve decided to put up a collection and am in the middle of the process–hope to have something up for sale soon. When you work on pulling together a book, you see how much goes into one. Not just the stories, the cover, the words on the back copy, but a copyright page. The headers that appear on the top of pages within the book.
All of those things have to be thoughtfully formatted. (Let’s not talk about the search for typos and final review of the stories for word choices and sentences and story consistency.)
I’m seeing firsthand how hard the concrete side of publishing is… to say nothing of later marketing, etc.
But the exciting part is that five of my stories will soon be out in the world for people to read. I hope you may find them and, if they speak to you, read and enjoy.