Is your book published?

I came to Alaska two years ago with my current book, 'Some Secrets Shouldn't Die', farmed out for editing and feverishly working on a new title, 'Shadow Angel'. I had stopped telling people I was a nurse and started telling them I was a writer who made a living as a nurse. Yet I still fielded the question, "Is your book published" again and again. I had initially printed about 50 copies of my manuscript and sold them for $20 (to cover printing costs) to friends in Phoenix who couldn't wait to read my book. It was obvious I had a marketable product because the general consensus was. "Where's the next book". Unfortanatly I couldn't get any agents to see the book for what it was.

I had toyed with the idea of self publishing several times but wanted to do it right. So finally last fall I put my head together with yet to be published author Alex Clifford and decided to take the deep plunge. In late November 2008 I sent off $100 to the state of Alaska for a business license I became the owner of CogWheel Press was up and running as a publisher and owner . My first task was to do one final edit of my now thoroughly polished manuscript and start the printing process.

Now I say, "Yes it is published."