In episode 3: A mom plays a huge role in her daughter's development. But some mothers really know how to sabotage. Also, the importance of self promotion as an independent author verses one signed to a publisher.

On this episode of Self Published, I share information on free legal advice for artists, resources on preventing and recovering from abuse, and my state of mind in preparing to confront my father in court for molesting and raping me.

Along with advice on writing a query letter and finding a literary agent, "Query: Episode 1 of Self Published is a menage narrative of the first post of "Unashamed An Open Book", comments and questions from readers and fans and sidebars of drama from behind the scenes.

I am Aziza Kibibi and I'm so excited to share with you my journey as a self published author.

"Self Published" chronicles much of what I was going through the 4 years it took me to write and publish my book Unashamed: a life tainted...vols. 1 and 2.

You'll listen to stories of my process and life, which include everything from my attempts at securing a traditional publisher, to getting an opportunity to promote my book on the ABC talk show "Katie!" before I even finished writing it, and the many tools and resources I used to keep myself motivated through the entire ordeal to get it done.

In this 10 episode season, Every Monday starting September 14, 2020, I will upload a podcast episode that is an eloquent mash-up of my archived blog posts "Unashamed an Open Book," and my journal entries correlating with the publishing of the blog. Those tasty nuggets will be accompanied by insight, resources and advice on self-publishing a book. And to top it all off, it will be accented by a couple of dashes of crazy that was going on behind the scenes.

So If you are a budding author, a fellow human living a life that deserves to be surrounded by letterbox complete with opening and closing credits, a person who wants to share their story to help the world, or someone who just enjoys listening to interesting life experiences, then this podcast is for you.

"We are walking stories. Rarely opening our pages to others for fear of their judgments and criticisms." - Aziza Kibibi