Self-publishing, Trend or Fad.

Good morning Pink Fuzzies and guests. Add your dishes anywhere you want to. Someone started on the hot dogs!











It's early for booze, but let's party anyway! Grab your coffee, tea, or juice. We could do mimosas, since I write about southern folks.

The publishing industry is changing again. Actually, it’s always changing. My dreams are changing or evolving, too.

When I started writing with the idea of publishing in 1991, there were more publishers. There were more independent bookstores.

Publishers merged and bought out the smaller companies. Bookstore chains bought out smaller stores.

Now only a few suppliers can put books into bookstores. Now you can buy your books online. I even read about the idea of a library with no paper books. I can't imagine not being able to wander through the stacks and look at book spines.

People started selling books from their websites. Yep, they would give away teaser chapters, then sell their books to readers they managed to hook. A few brave companies started selling e-books. (I won’t even get into books on tape or CDs.)

Twenty years ago I didn’t even consider that I might one day publish my own book or that my first publication would be published online. I heard about friends going through vanity presses and selling their books from their trunks. I’d never do that. Some published books as print-on-demand. I wanted an agent to represent me. I wanted to sell to New York publishers! A couple of years ago an editor for a small press suggested that I self-publish a book she didn’t feel would fit the needs of the New York folks. Who me? No way. Well, no one could read my books! Were there readers who would love them? Who knew?

Last year several writer friends “went indie” . The advent of the e-readers made reading e-books so much easier than reading them on computers. Reports from chain bookstores report sales of e-books edging out sales of paper books.

E-books aren’t going away and I don’t think Indie publishing will go away any time soon. Many Bestselling authors whose rights are being returned to them are self-publishing them as e-books.

I wrote stories I love and I want to share them. Finally folks can read one of my novellas.

What do you think? Will the self-publishing thing fade away?

I finally did it. I jumped into the self-publishing pool. Forever Love is a paranormal romance, available now at http://www.smashwords.com/upload/details/57300.

For the month of May it is on sale for $.99.

Nurse Sabrina Boyd’s life was just fine before Dr. Joe Walker, her cousin’s widower, returned home to South Georgia. Avoiding the handsome doctor who wants a romantic relationship with her isn’t her biggest problem. She has seen the Demon Cat, a harbinger of death for the Boyd family for centuries. Now she’s obsessed with finding and saving the person the cat wants, and she’s immersed in old journals about ill-fated lovers.

Joe wants to teach her about steamy sex. The cat ... what does the cat really want?

Enjoy love, lust, magic, and sweet tea.

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