Surely, publishing a book can't be THAT difficult?

Monday was a failure. I had an appointment booked with a book publishing advisor at11:00, and didn't hear from her. Tried calling, got vMail = DAM!

So today, between doing interviews in the day job, I rang her again. I had read her website before the call, and wondered if there was a one-route solution? That was horribly confirmed in the following 30min phone call: "The answer is write a proposal to a publisher, so that will be £1500 please." She had a dodgy phone, which on hearing the price dropped out!

I am thinking that I am getting the order incorrect here on business launch. Even if I self published at a cost of around £3,000, it would still be six months+ - so September - before the book reached the shelves of Waterstone's and the High Street book retailers. I think you can do Amazon Kindle for less than $100 in a month.

Lets go back to basics here: you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going. So I think we will get the website and course going first, and then think about changing the draft eBook into something physical.

Book publishing task complete, by dismissing it!