Aww thank you my lovely!

Haha! I feel both of those in my soul! These ideas are great though - I'll add them in 😉

Thank you! Yes - I definitely plan on doing some walk throughs and videos on formatting when book 2 is ready for it!

Thank you! I honestly try my best!

Thank you! Hopefully one day I can share those lovely juicy big numbers...or you know, just a positive profit figure 😂

Are you planning on querying with it? The only thing I'd say is that I don't have experience with querying! However, a synopsis is a synopsis, and I'd be happy to figure something out to work with you on that! If you want to chat more, head over to Instagram and dm me so we can run through some things!

The biggest courses I took were the 'HB90' planning course and 'Publish & Thrive' with Sarra Cannon and I cannot recommend them enough! I did a couple free courses for things like IG stories and a freebie fb ads mini class (www.matthewjholmes.com/) that's the link for the fb ads one! It's just the basics but that's what I needed to begin with!

Personally, I couldn't publish without other readers first. I published my first 2 books without any feedback and it showed! I've learnt a lot more now and I wouldn't be able to do that again 😅 Some of my first readers were actually a couple of friends who read themselves and who I trusted to give me honest feedback. I will note here and say while I can be nervous, I've always wanted feedback to improve! I do a mix of paid and volunteer beta reading (to give me a broader mix of 'reader' and feeback) and I usually do a couple of rounds. Depending on the book depends on when I use the paid beta readers. I've used fiver in the past and also recommendations from friends who've used certain people (often other authors). I now personally offer beta critiquing because I felt like there's a gap between a casual reader offering their thoughts and the mega expensive developmental editing! To find volunteers, definitely look to your socials, but there are groups on fb and goodreads that are specifically for beta reading too. It can take a lot of work. My first series that I sought out this help took a long time to gather even just a couple of people! My latest book I had volunteers from just posting on my socials. I also now have a few author private groups/friends who I share things with and get critique along the way. My biggest advice is to never be afraid of critique! I've only ever had one fairly rude person and I just ignored their comments for the most part to be honest! Writing is definitely fun for me, and my passion, so I get that feeling. As always, this is just my personal view on it! Sorry for the essay response! 😅