Are You an Aspiring Author? Look Before You Leap: The Smart Author’s Guide to Avoiding the Money Pit and Achieving Financial SUCCESS in Publishing is based on heartwarming and heartbreaking stories from over one hundred interviews and surveys with published authors across traditional, self, and hybrid publishing. The author’s own experience as an author advocate and four-time, award-winning and bestselling author provides an engaging, often hilarious backdrop for this guide on book publishing. When you read Look Before You Leap, you will learn how to: * Overcome your own potential objections to writing and publishing a book; * Navigate the publishing industry with confidence and competence; * Avoid the potential money pit of book publishing; and * Achieve your financial goals on your publishing journey.