We are self publishing and it has been hectic around here with a swirl of ISBN, ABI, EAN etc. which is why I haven't posted much recently. I have also had to deal with the website, annierogers.com, which we discovered was far too confusing and was not working as a sale site for the first book, A Dream Across Time. We received invaluable input from our Yahoo self publishing group. So I have been out looking for resources to put it to right technically.
One of the things we will be doing is moving our Insider Information columns over to this blog. Before setting up the website I reviewed over 100 websites by other fiction authors. I thought they weren't very interesting in that there was usually just information about a current book and past books and little other content. I couldn't find much reason to ever revisit them. We had thought that we would create an event on our website by putting up these columns but, along with other things we included, we found the event was confusion.
The columns were intended to share the adventure of the writing process. I am a recovering clinical psychologist who left the field because of the problems with managed care. My wife is a clinical social worker. We worked in a joint practice specializing in stepfamily problems. But we found that we could not practice ethically with the way managed care functioned. So, we joined the stampede of other professionals who were exiting the medical and mental health fields. Having the opportunity to develop a specialty travel business we threw ourselves into marketing short term villa rentals in the Caribbean. As we spent more and more time in the Caribbean we found ourselves with a wealth of stories. It was then that we decided to begin to write them.
I found myself on a plane to St. Lucia reading a not very good book. Mala and I felt we could do better and set out to write our first novel. It was such fun and we love joint projects.
With our mental health backgrounds we were in fat city when it came to goal, motivation and conflict. And so we wanted to share our perspective on our characters and it also gave us the opportunity to share cultural perspectives and what we found in the writing process.
Do you begin to get the drift about the choice of the title of this blog? Yes, I will be digressing. Look for commentary, perspective, missteps and our self publishing adventures. Oh yes, self publishing is an adventure. But it is also so much more satisfying although the learning curve sometimes feels asymptotic. But now we have an integrated approach. We work out the stories, we write the stories and have control of things such as pub dates and marketing.
Next up look for Column 1 which is about the magical tropical island setting for A Dream Across Time.
For Much More Come Visit Us at www.annierogers.com
One of the things we will be doing is moving our Insider Information columns over to this blog. Before setting up the website I reviewed over 100 websites by other fiction authors. I thought they weren't very interesting in that there was usually just information about a current book and past books and little other content. I couldn't find much reason to ever revisit them. We had thought that we would create an event on our website by putting up these columns but, along with other things we included, we found the event was confusion.
The columns were intended to share the adventure of the writing process. I am a recovering clinical psychologist who left the field because of the problems with managed care. My wife is a clinical social worker. We worked in a joint practice specializing in stepfamily problems. But we found that we could not practice ethically with the way managed care functioned. So, we joined the stampede of other professionals who were exiting the medical and mental health fields. Having the opportunity to develop a specialty travel business we threw ourselves into marketing short term villa rentals in the Caribbean. As we spent more and more time in the Caribbean we found ourselves with a wealth of stories. It was then that we decided to begin to write them.
I found myself on a plane to St. Lucia reading a not very good book. Mala and I felt we could do better and set out to write our first novel. It was such fun and we love joint projects.
With our mental health backgrounds we were in fat city when it came to goal, motivation and conflict. And so we wanted to share our perspective on our characters and it also gave us the opportunity to share cultural perspectives and what we found in the writing process.
Do you begin to get the drift about the choice of the title of this blog? Yes, I will be digressing. Look for commentary, perspective, missteps and our self publishing adventures. Oh yes, self publishing is an adventure. But it is also so much more satisfying although the learning curve sometimes feels asymptotic. But now we have an integrated approach. We work out the stories, we write the stories and have control of things such as pub dates and marketing.
Next up look for Column 1 which is about the magical tropical island setting for A Dream Across Time.
For Much More Come Visit Us at www.annierogers.com
posted by Roger | 3:00 PM
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