Last week I “met” a lovely woman ( I could practically hear her accent in her emails!) , Lindsey Middlemiss of FibroAction.org, a UK organization.  She’d read Women Work and Autoimmmune Disease: Keep Working, Girlfriend! and wanted to interview me about it and my business.

When bloggers interview, they tend to write a set of questions that you answer. It’s really quite efficient. You can read that interview here, Getting to Know Rosalind Joffe.

One thing about publishing a book that I think many people don’t realize is that most of the time, the authors, not the publisher,  are responsible for selling the book.

I knew that before before the first word was written. But thinking you know something and actually living through it can be quite different.

Now I realize that there are actually three stages to being a “successful” book author (in my world, that means that you sell more than 1,00 copies in the first year).

1. You write and edit it.
2. You publish it.
3. You market it so it sells.

Joan and I are in phase 3 and it’s much more work than I’d envisioned.  And, we’re not doing it completely on our own! The publisher does some marketing (although it’s pretty minimal) and I hired a publicist! That said, marketing this takes hours out of the week that I could/should be devoting directly to the cicoach.com business building which is how I earn my living (no, unfortunately, book sales don’t do that).

I’m not complaining. I have to admit I get a kick talking about this –  to all these people whom I’ve never and will never meet!
Rosalind aka cicoach.com

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