
Looking Up from the Instruments
My first author meet-and-greet was a reminder that there’s more to publishing than sales numbers and dashboards. Sometimes the best way to measure the journey is to look up from the instruments and me

Trawler Speed: What My First Week as a Self-Published Author Taught Me
There’s something strange about publishing a book. One week after publishing my first novel, here's what I've learned about waiting, watching numbers, and moving at trawler speed. For months—years, really—you work toward one particular moment. You write the story. Rewrite it. Edit it. Read it again. Change things you were certain you had already changed.…

Welcome to the Learning Curve
What happens after you decide to write a book? Michael Hoskins shares the unexpected learning curve behind writing, publishing, and launching The Journey of a Salty Soul.

⚓ Welcome Aboard.
There have been a lot of long days, late nights, rewrites, and more caffine than I care to admit leading to this moment. What began as a simple idea slowly became a story... and that story became The Journey of a Salty Soul. This page is more than a place to talk about a book.…
