Writing as an Indie Author

New Books Brewing

Just when you get used to life as it is, changes occur. A friend moves away. Your massage therapist loses her place of operation. Nothing like it, I’d say. Well, I’m changing, too. Thanks to my web SEO, you’ve a new surprise waiting for you at the website bearing my name. A little clue: it’s in this article elsewhere.

My book Stone of Her Destiny just came out on Amazon on August 5, and I’ve written a dossier on Kenna’s ancestor, plus a new book, Inheritance Spurned, and another new novel begun, The Tarbert Legacy.

All of the new work is part of the Highland-Cape Fear Thriller Series, a series filled with all things Scottish, the Stone of Destiny, a Southern mansion, intense love, a Cape Fear River chase scene, and unasked-for-thrills and adventures, old letters and other treasures. A series, and yet each book is a standalone. My speed of writing has increased drastically, and I must say, it needed to.

Authors can make it today, but they have to work harder than ever. If an author wants to tell her kind of story for the reader to enjoy some gourmet goodies that are just a little bit off the mainstream, she has to publish herself. If she wants a higher cut of the proceeds from the work she does, she goes Indie. Yes, it’s easier than ever in many ways, but harder just due to the multiplicity of apps and services he or she has to have and pay for in order to make it in publishing and marketing.

Since I’m writing this to fans, readers, and lovers of the independent way, I won’t bore you with information that others can give you better. If you want to know about all the bells and whistles, check out Mark Dawson’s Self-Publishing Formula. I have him to thank for my recent progress. I have started dictating my books, too, which coincides with my shoulders protesting their typing and painting loads. It’s a pain (the dictating pain) that you can master, as well, if you have the inclination.

Lane Campbell and Kenna Alford Campbell still inspect their ancestry, and are hot on the heels of an ancestor common to both of them. Their searches and activities have captured a lot of unwanted interest as well as buzz, enough to keep them ahead of the curve of their life spans and unexpected curves of impinging loyalties. Fortunately so far, the stalkers just want to know what they know. That might just change.

There’s nothing as certain as change.

Hop on the bandwagon and read my other standalones, as well.