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by Ginger
Chambers
I
hope I won't be shown the virtual door because my favorite pair of slippers are
blue and fuzzy! If it's any help, they're a shade of
pale blue that looks very pretty with pink. (waits to be tossed out) (isn't) (big smile) Thank you! My blue slippers and I have been
together for quite awhile. Even written several books together. Let me prop my feet
up, cross my ankles properly as shown in your photo, and tell you a little
story.
I'm
sure you've all heard the saying, "You can't teach an old dog new tricks."
Well, don't believe it. You can. I'm the "old dog" and the "new
trick" is e-publishing. Now
wait! Wait! Don't everyone rush off in horror. It's not going to be THAT bad.
I'm not going to try to teach you anything while we're enjoying having our feet
up. I'm just saying that it can be done. "Old dog" here is doing it!
And, believe me, if I can do it, you can do it...if you haven't already!
All
of my writing life has been in Category Romance. I loved reading it before I
started writing, and I have loved (almost) every moment of writing it for the
past 30-odd years. I'm a fairly slow writer, so that time accounts for 33 or so
books. And as I said, all Category. I'm a sucker for a HappyEverAfter ending.
Gets me every time. Only, once the books had their moment in the sun (2 to 4
weeks on store bookshelves), that was it. The only way the book stayed alive
after that was at Used Book Stores, with the pages growing shabby and torn from
use, and the cover fading...
Now
we have pixels and readers and Fires and Pads and Nooks and cell phones. And
all those old books--the ones we wrote and the ones we once read--can be new
again! With authors having final say on content and covers! Oh, joyous day! No
more hero who looks like a vampire as he bends to 'kiss' the heroine's neck
(and it's not a vampire book), no more "But my heroine is a blond, not a
redhead!" Or my favorite, she's shown bursting out of a D-cup when she has
trouble filling a B-cup in the story.
Which
brings us to the event that brings this all together and is happening at this
very minute. Today is the launch of LOVE
ME SOME COWBOY! A boxed set of 5 full novels by 5 best-selling authors who
have taken the e-publishing bull by the horns and wrestled it into submission.
Yay, us! Jean
Brashear, Day Leclaire, Barbara McMahon, Lisa Mondello, and Ginger Chambers. All
at the bargain price of 99¢
($.99) for the boxed set. My
contribution, Love, Texas, is my
first attempt at self-publishing at all the usual e-suspects: Kindle, Apple,
Nook, Kobo, Smashwords. What an experience! And soon there will be another, Call It Love, which was my first
Candlelight Ecstasy Romance back in 1982. After that, another, then another...
Once this gal gets going, ya can't stop her! I'm loving this new world for
writers.
There's a lot more to tell, but a little story is just
that--little. So I'll uncross my ankles, put my fuzzy slippers on the floor,
and get back to work. Thanks to all of you for listening.
Ginger
www.gingerchambers.com
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