Frank Pasmore

Well, signup went fine, without a hitch, but sure wish I could figure out how to put a thumbnail next to a new topic like everyone else in the forum seems to know how to accomplish.  One actually magically showed up on one, but I couldn't see what I did differently.  Signup itself was good, though.

Of course I had heard of self publishing before, but it wasn't until last month when I took a zoom workshop from the library that one of our local authors explained about Amazon's Kindle Direct program (Amazon Free Self Publishing).  The royalties vary depending on how much work you do yourself, and how much you let Amazon do for you.  But there are a tremendous number of potential customers, even if your eBook of your children's pictures only gets sold to your parents and in-laws.  Could be an excellent chance to get your story out there...

http://BuyMeaCoffee.com is a mini-crowd funding platform to let your fans support you with a $5 donation.  I think that a nice feature of the service is that when someone buys you a coffee, their coffee and your site are posted at the top of the donor list, possibly generating an additional donation if the right donor happens your name on the list.  I've never tried it, but saw the link on calmly.io (a useful site if you're money stressed)