What motivated you to become an indie author?
After the initial success of landing a traditional publisher for my 1st book The Inner Sibling (formerly Line 21), I resumed querying my next completed manuscript, which was a fantasy novella. I quickly realized that most, if not all, publishers were unwilling/unable to take on that particular length of writing (25-40k+ words). However, the one thing that I had going for me, besides a viable product that I believed in, was the information that I was able to glean from a plethora of fellow writers about self-publishing.
What's the story behind your latest book?
This particular story came about in a rather convoluted way. Back in 2016, I decided to rewrite a previously published chapbook. The story was okay, but I thought it could use a little more in the way of content. About four chapters into the rewrite, I suddenly remembered I had a slushie novel that served as a prequel to this chapbook. With great reluctance, I put my current project to the side in order to tackle the slushie. Ultimately, I was able to extract two complete novels from that one slushie, and this particular story is the first of those two novels.
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