34 - Great Basin Sun, June 7, 2023
A 2023 Publication of Nevada News Group
By Julia Maestrejuan Nevada News Group
After 20 rejections from different publishers, local author Gail Hertzog decided she would take the fate of her book, Crossing the Ford, into her own hands and start her own publishing company, Long Legged Something Press. “This [book] is kind of my baby. I wrote it four times to get it to where it is. I took some writing classes and I really studied around and tried to refine it into a good book,” she explained. According to Hertzog, around 200,000 books used to be published each year, but now, there’s around two million books published every year, with more and more authors, even big name authors, going self-published. “After getting published, the next big step is to market your book. And that’s the process I’m in right now and it’s really hard…I tried [to market] a lot of ways— I’m still trying— but I decided to join these writing contests, or book award contests.”
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Her book has now earned eight different awards including First Place Goethe for Historical Fiction, and First Place Laramie for Americana Fiction from the Chanticleer International Book Awards and First Place Romance, First Place Western, Second Place Interior Design, and Honorable Mention in Illustrations (done by local artist Teddy Swecker) from the Royal Dragonfly Awards out of thousands of entries from around the world. According to Hertzog, she has rewritten her book many times over the past 20 years, wanting to make sure it was just right. The story takes place in post Civil War Winnemucca with characters inspired by some of her ancestors and her friends and family, including her main character, Ruby Holt, who was inspired by her father, a quirky-colloquialism using cowboy. The heart of her book beats for Nevada though. Continued Inside
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