Thanks so much for the detailed answer! My father in law has just self published a novel, but gone about it very old school (garage of books and all). That made me very curious as I've always fancied the idea of finally pushing one of my drafts to completion one day.

Ten months of editing is mad, but your books are huge so I suppose I'm not so surprised. Massive congratulations on the completion of the book and it's trilogy, you must be both proud and relieved!

Sorry to extend this with another question, but how much of the publishing process do you do yourself? I assume not printing, but how much distribution and such do you do?