For Indie and Small Press authors, the hard part is not the
writing. There is a love-affair between the creator and his/her characters that
an author would embrace, even if they have to write in a closet. Oh, wait, a
pantry off the kitchen was once my office. The “real” people in their novels
are their sweethearts and authors must tell their stories. Before you try to apply
an amateur diagnosis to these words, I remind you I am also Dr. Rapp, a
psychologist. It is just that we know our characters and their motives very
well. The hard part is marketing and distribution.
Family Christian Stores’ recent filing of Chapter 11
bankruptcy saddens many writers. I don’t pretend to know the details or the
impact it will have on their brick-and-mortar stores. I do know, when a writing
outlet has trouble, we all grieve for them and the authors they support. Thank goodness
for the Internet.
If you are like me, I still don’t know how to utilize the
net to the advantage of the books I write. With Publishers who navigate the cyber-world
and offer books through their online presence, we all say, “Thank you!” We may
not make the money of a Richard Paul Evans or Dan Brown—did I say, “May not?”—we
won’t make big money, we write for the love of writing, to introduce the world
to our “sweethearts.”
I just released, Length
of Days – Beyond the Valley of the Keepers, the second in the Length of
Days trilogy, behind the first, Length of
Days – The Age of Silence. I send my friends, Christy and Jason, out into
the unknown to overturn the Length of Days law, thus ending the extermination
of people for no other reason than they have reached their Length of Days. Read
about the two books at www.lengthofdays.net
. Will Christy and Jason succeed? They already have, because I have given them
a voice.
To all of you Small Press and Indie Authors, I say, “Tell
us about your sweethearts.” Readers now wait with paper- and-print books,
eReaders, cell phone screens and their own computers for an invitation into
your world, to learn about the people who live there. Type on! Happy writing!
Happy reading!
Doris
Copyright 2015 Doris Gaines Rapp
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