What motivated you to become an indie author?
I've spent a lot of time writing for myself or for friends and online fans. Like other writers, I've had a literary agent before, and I even had some interest in my novels from traditional publishers. It's really important to me that I have a consistent, high quality in all of my writing, but especially in works available online--since it's so easy to find, I need to put my best foot forward. For a long time, this intimidated me. What if someone read a story of mine that wasn't polished enough and they never bothered with my other work because of that?
When I left a toxic work environment after three too many years of getting no where, two of my friends separately talked to me. They had no idea at the time, but they each were practically begging me to give independent authorship a try. With both my best friends urging me that I was worrying over nothing (and promising to help me out with covers!), I took the plunge! And here I am.
What is the greatest joy of writing for you?
I love world-building and character development! When a character traits comes out of no where and I need to go back to edit in for the new information, I just get giddy.
I want even a short story to feel like there's a bigger, darker world waiting to be explored beyond those few thousand words. And with character development and world-building, there's always so much left to tell. That sense of knowing a world is in flux and that I can go anywhere with it, and take you along, is like nothing else.
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