Today’s post comes to us courtesy of Tess M Garfield, a friend of the blog and a terrific author.

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I enjoy the passion and humor Tess brings to everything, so I wanted her as one of our first guest bloggers, and luckily for me, she agreed. Watch for her interview here next week!

Here’s Tess:

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When I started writing my first book, I had read that anyone can publish a book on the internet, so I knew it couldn’t be that hard.  There really is nothing quite like looking at the world through rose-tinted glasses.  Having planned to write a book for many years, I had carried out some brief research, like maybe as much as five minutes, so I knew that KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing) existed. …