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The Book Diaries #2 - A Realistic Self-Publishing Plan
The Book Diaries

The Book Diaries #2 - A Realistic Self-Publishing Plan

It's time I stopped living in cloud cuckoo land!

Ren Riley
Jun 03, 2025
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Psst! This is The Book Diaries, a series for my paid subscribers where I am documenting the process of self-publishing my first ever book.

In this edition, I tell you all about the research I have done so far about the self-publishing process, and I give you an update on the names of the essays I will be writing.

If you’d like to join us, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. The subscription money will be used to make the book better, such as finding someone to proof-read, and someone to design a front cover that doesn’t look like ass. (If you don’t want to upgrade, just delete this newsletter and I’ll see you at the next Neurowavy Thoughts weekend newsletter that remains free for everyone.)


Since I wrote the last diary entry, I have learned a LOT.

Let’s just say that before I undertook this massive self-publishing research deep-dive, I was living in blissful ignorance and starry-eyed at the prospect of one day soon releasing a book I had written and produced from beginning to end.

It ain’t gonna work quite how I’d envisioned, and that’s ok.

The main thing I have learned is:

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