No Longer Waiting for the Call You Think Will Change Your Life

Last fall I wrote a post that has had more hits than anything else I wrote: “Waiting for the Call You Think Will Change Your Life.” I saw that it struck a chord with a lot of people. In it, I described my career as an author, and how for many years I eagerly jumped when the phone rang – hoping that this was The Call.

You know: the call where the voice on the other end says: “An Editor at a Mainstream Publishing Company has Made an Offer for Your Novel.”

Before you get too excited for me – wait.

No one has called me.

What’s happened is that I decided I was not going to wait any more for The Call. Instead of waiting to be published I’m going to go independent! “Heaven Falls” is going to be published by Telemachus Press in March 2010. From now on I am going to rely on those who I believe are the future of publishing: Readers and Reviewers. They are the ones who can further my life as a writer – not a corporation.

“Heaven Falls” is a romantic novel that had been trolled by my agent a few years back, and that I’d revised more times than I cared to remember. I’ve always loved this book, and it made me sad to have it wither away in a drawer. People have urged me to go the indie-publishing route for a while, including some good friends who read the novel and who have already forged a path in the world of independent publishing: Claude Bouchard, Robert Crull, and John P. Locke. Thanks to them, and many others, I decided I’d join this enormous, important movement.

“Heaven Falls” is going to be available SOON!!