Good advice I am following

A friend forwarded me this link http://mashable.com/2009/05/08/twitter-authors/ and it contained some great advice -- I can't just focus on my book and not offer other info that can help others. I am switching gears. Being so new at this, sometimes the focus is lost but I am back on track. For anyone intersted, I spent close to a year doing research regarding self-publishing or not. I found someone to help me on Elance (www.elance.com) - Michael McGuire. He is like my coach or agent in that he helped me find a publisher and helps me with marketing which is the hardest part of selling books. Michael then introduced me to GMBooks who published my book at a very affordable price. The commission split is also so reasonable -- just means the hard work is in marketing. If you are not willing to put the effort in marketing yourself -- don't bother self-publishing. You'll waste your money. Hope this helps :-)