Adria's Book Project
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It was exactly a year ago to the day that I announced to the world that I had written a book. For four years in the secret place, I wrote my story. Nobody knew. I would slowly let some friends in on the project but in the beginning, I knew it needed to just be me and the Lord. So much healing took place as those words flowed out of me. As painful as it was, it was like a press and release effect.
If you do not know how the book world works, it goes a little like this. To sign the big book deal, meaning, to have publishers say they want to pick up your book, you have to first sign with an agent. They will then represent you and be a way into the door of the publishing houses. Without an agent, it is a shot in the dark. Publishers receive proposals in the masses of people who want them to pick them up. They don’t have the time to sift through the pages and find the good ones, so they rely on agents to present them to them.
For weeks, I emailed agents my proposal telling them about my book. Rejection after rejection and no responses at all. It wasn’t until someone connected me with an agent that anyone even gave me the time of day. In the end, I somehow managed to land an agent as a first-time author. This in itself was not expected. That leads us to now. After months of talking back and forth, the climax of the process was that I needed to build my platform. More people needed to be reading my blog, more people needed to be following me on Instagram, and I needed to be speaking way more than I was. The numbers that were thrown out of goals to hit were astronomical.
I knew I did not want to spend the next 5 years waiting for the chance to make this book come to life. So, I did what probably nobody in my shoes would have done, I went my separate ways with my agent.
With all of that being said, I have decided to self-publish. In simpler terms for those of you not familiar with the book world - I am publishing the book on my own. Think of it as similar to an artist deciding to record song without having a record deal.
This is where you come in. The self-publishing process costs money. I can do the whole project for around $3k. I believe in this book enough to put my own skin in the game and invest in this project of my own savings. I can’t do it all though. I am asking and believing the Lord would double my offering of what I can invest and get the whole thing funded. If you feel led, you can give on the link below. This money covers the cost of an editor, copy rights, ISBN, distribution, cover art, etc.
More than money, I am asking for prayers. Uncharted territory and starting lines – but I know with every fiber in my being that the Lord breathed these words into me and out of me and they need a place to land.
If you want to read more about this journey and this book you can read the two blog post below. The first being when I announced the book and the second being a little more about this journey.
https://www.adriaking.com/i-dont-want-you-to-just-know-my-story/
https://www.adriaking.com/god-does-not-need-my-follower-count/
If you do not know how the book world works, it goes a little like this. To sign the big book deal, meaning, to have publishers say they want to pick up your book, you have to first sign with an agent. They will then represent you and be a way into the door of the publishing houses. Without an agent, it is a shot in the dark. Publishers receive proposals in the masses of people who want them to pick them up. They don’t have the time to sift through the pages and find the good ones, so they rely on agents to present them to them.
For weeks, I emailed agents my proposal telling them about my book. Rejection after rejection and no responses at all. It wasn’t until someone connected me with an agent that anyone even gave me the time of day. In the end, I somehow managed to land an agent as a first-time author. This in itself was not expected. That leads us to now. After months of talking back and forth, the climax of the process was that I needed to build my platform. More people needed to be reading my blog, more people needed to be following me on Instagram, and I needed to be speaking way more than I was. The numbers that were thrown out of goals to hit were astronomical.
I knew I did not want to spend the next 5 years waiting for the chance to make this book come to life. So, I did what probably nobody in my shoes would have done, I went my separate ways with my agent.
With all of that being said, I have decided to self-publish. In simpler terms for those of you not familiar with the book world - I am publishing the book on my own. Think of it as similar to an artist deciding to record song without having a record deal.
This is where you come in. The self-publishing process costs money. I can do the whole project for around $3k. I believe in this book enough to put my own skin in the game and invest in this project of my own savings. I can’t do it all though. I am asking and believing the Lord would double my offering of what I can invest and get the whole thing funded. If you feel led, you can give on the link below. This money covers the cost of an editor, copy rights, ISBN, distribution, cover art, etc.
More than money, I am asking for prayers. Uncharted territory and starting lines – but I know with every fiber in my being that the Lord breathed these words into me and out of me and they need a place to land.
If you want to read more about this journey and this book you can read the two blog post below. The first being when I announced the book and the second being a little more about this journey.
https://www.adriaking.com/i-dont-want-you-to-just-know-my-story/
https://www.adriaking.com/god-does-not-need-my-follower-count/
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Adria King
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Atlanta, GA