How I Became an Author by Clay Gilbert

Clay Gilbert - How I Became an Author
Clay Gilbert - How I Became an Author
If you’re an author, not self-publishing, finding the right home for your work is essential. It’s also a long and sometimes difficult journey.
 
I began my publishing career in 2013. I awakened on my birthday that January and decided that my 42nd year would be the year I finally published a novel. I had published short fiction and poems over the years, but none of my three novels had graced a shelf.
 
I wrote a two sci-fis and a vampire novel. Eternity was a young adult, dystopian sci-fi. Annah was the first book in a sci-fi epic I would call the Children of Evohe. The vampire novel, Dark Road to Paradise, is the first and only vampire novel to deal with the notion of AIDS head-on.
 

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How I Became an Author by Kate Andary

Kate Andary - How I Became an Author
Kate Andary - How I Became an Author
As a new author, most people want to know how you got your book published. How did you find your publisher? I guess I can say that I was one of the lucky ones; my publisher found me.
 
I had a friend that owned a metaphysical store. She was having an unknown publisher come out with a special guest tarot reader. I had no interest in meeting the guy that sold his own books, just the tarot reader mind you.

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