Why I Won’t Be Traditionally Publishing My Book
My science fiction-thriller book comes out fall 2023
I’ve wanted to be a published author my entire life.
I remember the first book I ever wrote. I was in third grade. I wrote it on those soft, yellow composition pages that were made from recycled paper or something. I don’t know, they had a weird texture.
I stapled them together like a book. I drew a cover with lavender, green, and blue highlighters. I hid it under the chair in the living room because I didn’t want anyone to see my work before it was done.
From there, I graduated to filling notebooks with my ideas for stories. I wrote a Star Wars fan fiction. I wrote a story about a girl living in colonial times. I wrote random scenes that would come to me.
But I never wrote a complete book. I never thought I could.
My ideas always came to me in bits and pieces and never in a complete story. I had random scenes but no way to connect them. No idea of where I’d want the story to go.
Until I sat down and forced myself to try.
That took about twenty years.
