Procrastination

Ugh, my procrastination is out of control. I have at least 20 things to do and can't seem to complete any. At least now blogging is off my To Do list! Well, I have spent alot of my time marketing in the last couple of weeks. I find that getting out and talking to people about what I'm doing really helps me. I have gotten so much good advice from friends in the business I need to share.  Apparently if you want Illustrations in your book, the Illustrator is picked by the Publisher. Hmmm, not good for me for two reasons, 1. I am pretty anal about my book and can't even consider letting someone I don't know and have never seen their work, contributing to the project. This will not work if I want to use a big publisher. So I may have to go with a smaller one. Less help with marketing after publication. 2. My Illustrator is a relative (unbeknowst to us both until very recently) of my main charactor. Seems to me he was destined to be the Illustrator. Who else would have such a vested interest??
One of the other things I learned is that if you are having someone do copyediting for you (periods, paragraphs, run-on sentences etc..), don't tell anyone, apparently this is frowned upon. I have no idea why....
So anyway, I am off to finish getting the info to my Illustrator, to heck with the Big house Publishers, I am doing this my way........... and you may never see me in print....