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Publishing My Book “Gerobak 777”

Brief Book Update.

Getting a book published is never easy. The steps involved are harder than the writing itself. Writing is the fun part. While it is a lot of work, the process of publishing a book is a headache. 

  1. Writing the book.*
  2. Editing/checking* Janet loves this part
  3. Cover design*
  4. Book layout*
  5. Numerous changes to the above*
  6. More revisions to the above* Janet also loves this part too
  7. ISBN application*
  8. Complete all of the above 100%  
  9. Send all info to printers
  10. Print-on-demand copies
  11. Contact reviewers/influencers
  12. Marketing/social media plan
  13. Book launch
  14. Hope for sales

Writing The Book Is Easy.

No, it’s not easy but we need to start somewhere and it seems like despite the time writing the book, the rest of it takes even longer. It is a matter of organization and having the right people involved. 

The many steps involved in the book writing process to the actual book launch itself is a laborious process.

When we look at the many steps involved it is impossible to manage all of it alone. So there needs to be a team that can back me with social media, follow up, and help with all the details. The above steps take time and they also take creativity. 

The first 7 steps are complete, but that is only 50 percent of the work done. The rest takes even more time and even more money. The social media aspect of it is also something that not only takes creativity but resources and time. 

Decision Process

I am still in doubt about the book cover for Gerobak 777. Should I go with my gut feeling or the input from different individuals? I am in a new world here because I am not dealing with the masses. I am dealing with and hoping to attract the masses and people with different tastes. 

I need to appeal to the local Indonesian people who are the A, and B crowd as well as the crowd that is on my TikTok. I am beginning to think I need to create content and ask, take a pole on cover A and cover B. I am desperate to go with my book cover but I am a little scared of being wrong. Yup, so we are still back at the decision stage in some aspects.

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Zsolt Zsemba

Zsolt Zsemba has worn many different hats. He has been an entrepreneur, and businessman for over 30 years. Living abroad has given him many amazing experiences in life and also sparked his imagination for writing. After moving to Canada from Hungary at the age of 10 and working in a family business for a large part of his life. The switch from manufacturing to writing came surprisingly easily for him. His passion for writing began at age 12, mostly writing poetry and short stories. In 1999, the chance came to write scripts. Zsolt took some time off from his family business to write in Jakarta Indonesia for MD Entertainment. Having written dozens of soap operas and made for TV movies, in 2003 Zsolt returned to the family business once more. In 2018, he had the chance to head back to Asia once again. He took on the challenge to be the COO for MD Pictures and get back into the entertainment business. The entertainment business opened up the desire to write once more and the words began to flow onto the pages again. He decided to rewrite a book he began years ago. Organ House was reborn and is a fiction suspense novel while Scars is a young adult drama focused on life’s challenges. After the first two books, his desire to write not only became more challenging but enjoyable as well. After having several books completed he was convinced to publish them for your enjoyment. Zsolt does not tend to stay in one specific genre but tends to lean towards strong female leads and horror. Though he also has a few human interest books, he tends to write about whatever brews in his brain for a while.