Self-publishing 101: Open thread with Teresa Hill, best-selling author

by David Akadjian for Readers and Book Lovers

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Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015 at 11:00:08am PST

A couple weeks ago, teresahill hopped on the Self-publishing 101 comment thread with a great comment about her experience with Bookbub.

We didn't know at the time, but turns out Teresa Hill is a three-time Rita nominee and USA Today Bestselling Author who has written thirty-five books of romance and women’s fiction, with more than 3 million copies in print in more than a dozen languages, for NAL/Onyx, Silhouette, Harlequin and Steeple Hill.

Her latest series is Christmas with the McRaes.

My favorite story about Teresa from her bio at Harlequin is that, while working for a small-town newspaper in Hilton Head, South Carolina, she was bawled out by Ross Perot for printing the fact that he’d purchased an oceanfront house on the island.

In her more than two decades as a published author, she's had three agents, at least a half-dozen editors, seen and heard just about everything, and is now thrilled to be self-publishing her own work.

I asked Teresa if she'd write something about her experiences and Teresa suggested an open thread where folks can ask anything they want.

Without further ado, here's Teresa. Ask whatever you'd like in the comments.

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