Having problems swimming with the big sharks through the cedar trees?? Find a niche in self-publishing. Recently, our author, Adam Santo, posted a few blogs about getting published. Please show him some support by commenting on either blog. One is found on his personal website, while the other is on our WordPress account. He will send you down the publishing path based on his own experiences. Follow him down his short path of creating art out of words, breathing life into print. A manuscript is only the beginning. Read on to see where Adam's footwork took him.

Guest Blogger today is Adam Santo. Please give him a warm welcome.

I had a great time throwing this second novel together with the  scraps of thought I'd haphazardly scrawled on anything I could find - now littering my desk - to piece it all into one word document. My final book in this trilogy will be just as amazing as the first two with one exception, It will be final.
Soon, the picture above will have a baby sister (fingers crossed for an October release). This one gestated a tiny bit too long and ended up coming out much larger for it. Wasn't one enough? No! No, it wasn't. I wanted to squeeze as much of the story I could into three books. I've got five more manuscripts on the table to be typed and printed.  I spent almost a year for marketing the first book by myself when time should have been put into writing. It will be the one greatest thing I do this year - not bombarding the masses with endless plugs for Temperature: Bitter Cold. Selling my first novel taught me that.
One other thing I neglected to research was a small guarantee to bookstores if they picked up my book and it didn't fly off shelves (not included with my first novel). Lacking this one service might have been my downfall. Every store out there carries a copy online. Physical selves, not so such.
When a final date comes my way for the book release, I will share it while the ink is still fresh. After that? I'm off o write more novels. A few short stories might pop-up here or there. Keep an eye out for those, too. Until I post again, and I do plan to post more, please check out my current fundraiser for curing Parkinson's.  

It’s a wildly morbid tale about a young woman’s experience in cheating death and falling in love after she dies.

When life and death collide there is no telling where it might end. Sally Mertill is spending time with friends visiting her beloved state. They’ve spent the day poking around Pike’s Peak and looking as far as they can see, but everything changes on the way back down the mountain to Colorado Springs. In a flash they careen off the side of the mountain.

With no guardrails it’s not surprising that no one survives. And yet within days, Bocnic Drewings will call upon the metal drawer where her body awaits an autopsy. For whatever reason the powers that be have chosen Sally to join the ranks of the undead—and there’s a kick, Sally also possesses a power only one other undead has ever had, which is to control and bring back anything that has died.

As Bocnic teaches her the ropes of not living, it becomes obvious that not all the undead share her enthusiasm for life—or have a heart. Sally is caught between worlds as also learns what it means to be undead when The Cross, a branch of the Catholic Church, seeks to destroy her.

This first novel is printed by CreateSpace before Panhandling Fantasy Publishing (PFP) came to life. PFP is the public branding for author Adam Santo and will be used in all future publications.(Click the banner above for a copy from the publisher or check a favorite online book retailer just a few keystrokes away.)

*This is Adam Santo's first novel in the Temperature trilogy. Adam Santo was born and raised in Southern California before joining the Army for his short lived career as a soldier in Colorado Springs. Currently living & writing in Florida with his family and faithful dog, Copper. Follow him on Twitter @AdamSanto and on Facebook.