Distractions
My non-writing life has taken me away from my computer for the last two weeks. Certainly I have been unable to make any sensible contribution to this blog. I have however managed to send out my manuscript to a ‘Self Publishing’ Company for a quote to prepare a cover design, format the novel for e-readers and for printing, and made an appointment with another company to discuss an advertising 
campaign. I think I’m trying publish my novel the easy way, rather than handling all aspects of self publishing myself. I tell myself it’s cheaper than keeping a horse, which seems to be the preferred hobby of most of my neighbours. Do I detect a horrible pun there?
Amazon make it seem so easy, your book published in hours but that rather unsettles me. Am I being a wimp about it or not? I’m not sure.
scribblingadvocate 
I think we have to careful how we define publishing in this context. Once we have a completed manuscript, edited, proof-read and polished to within an inch of its life, then we can publish on Amazon within a matter of hours (if not minutes). That last step is easy and anyone can do it by just following simple instructions. It’s the bits leading up to that polished file that take the time and the expertise.