First Lesson Learned the Hard Way
#1 Do not include photos, artwork, schematics, diagrams, drawings, sketches, or anything that is not text or tables. Anything color must be converted to black and white and the printers will warn you that grayscales may print with poor contrast. Printing them in the original color means the whole book is considered a color print, even for the sake of just one image. This will triple the cost of the book.
Evaluating 3 Public Relation Firms
After much research, I've narrowed down my three choices to Smith Publicity, Black Chateau, and BooksForward. They each have different prospective author engagement procedures.
Editor feedback is complete
Official Full Line Editor Review
Manuscript under Editorial Review
On November 17, 2023 after years of research and writing, the book manuscript is in the Line Editor’s hands! In the meantime, I am building this website for general book promotion, to update followers with my progress towards an official release date, to entice readers with glimpses into the story line, and to make special announcements about events or giveaways/coupons for the book.

