| As a self-publisher, you become a business person. | | | | My commerce was in the arena of human suffering, |
| Your book is your product. Your readers are your | | | | addictions, and family dysfunctions. Back in 1998, I |
| customers. When I first made my career change, I | | | | went to a writer's conference with a business |
| didn't think I had any business savvy. After all, I had | | | | woman, and I spent most of my time delivering |
| been in a social service agency. I did court reports, | | | | poems and looking at the other exhibits rather than |
| visited children and parents, and handled emergencies. | | | | manning my own booth. Later, I said to my older |
| I was not a welfare worker, so I didn't deal with | | | | son, (who has his own business), "I guess I'm not |
| money. True enough, I did budgets and clothing | | | | about business. |
| orders, but overall, headquarters handled the money. | | | | |