Exactly one year ago today, my first book, Follow Your Bliss, was released into the world.
I felt excited and nauseous all day that characters I’d created and words I’d written could now by read by everyone. Friends, family, former co-workers, complete strangers.
For a long time, I wanted to be traditionally published.
For a long time, I didn’t even consider self-publishing.
But then things began to change.
A lot more writers started taking the bull by the horns instead of waiting for an agent, then an editor at a publishing house to decide they were worthy of being published.
I finally thought, why not me? Why not self-publish, where I can have total control of every aspect of my books?
And that’s what led me here.
But I haven’t completely given up on traditional publishing.
Hybrid authors (self and traditionally published) are hot right now, so I plan to dip my toe back in the world of agents and editors. Who knows how that will go. Life is full of surprises and half the fun is not knowing what those surprises will be. I’m someone who’s never liked surprises, but I’m learning to embrace them as time goes on.
I can’t wait to see what 2024 holds for my writing career.