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First things first - the who.
I'm a New Yorker, not born but certainly raised. I graduated college with a degree in Criminal Justice, am not working in the field, but hopefully, that will change in time. Love to travel, love to try out new foods and frequent plenty of restaurants. Love my friends, love spending time with them.
I write a lot of random things, not always sci-fi, but that's mostly me flexing the style muscle. I read a lot of random things as well, mostly mysteries and thrillers, as well as true-crime books. A lot of it is because of my studies; you can take a girl out of sleuthing, you cannot take sleuthing out of a girl.
I edit others' work as well as my own. However, after Book 1...editing is best done with my editor.
I am versatile in both Mac and PC machines and own one of each. Love Photoshop, love InDesign...not a fan of the Mac OS, to be honest.
Annnnd...the how.
Frankly, and this is something that I'm sure goes without saying...I love to write. It's freeing, it's flexible, and it's my favorite medium of expression. The thing is, until I did NaNo 2006, I didn't really have a working plotline that I could stretch into more than just a short story.
The plot was something I kept tossing around for years. I think I was about 14 when I started putting it together the first time, but had no way to come up with an opener to the story. Moreover, I wanted to start something that I could keep working on - not just write, print and have done. I ended up shelving the idea of writing a book until I reached college.
I de-shelved it shortly after some very personal upheavals, if only as a way to keep myself distracted from the RL goings-on. It was fall of 2006, senior year of college, and my friend Candice convinced me to give NaNo a shot. By the time, I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to see from the story, so I figured that I might try.
For those of you who hadn't tried NaNo, I recommend it just for the experience. 50,000 words in 1 month may look easy, but by the time you reach 30,000....it's like pulling teeth. I finished the contest and won, but the book was a lot less than complete. I finished it fully about a week before Christmas.
Since then, I've written for NaNo every year and am gearing up to do the same thing again. The series is an ongoing, long-term project that I'll keep working on as long as I have the inspiration to do so.
Why self-publish?
The answer to that is simple: I had little other choice.
I queried agents repeatedly ever since the book was done. My end result was nearly always uniform: compliment on the plot and idea, but no actual "We'll work with you." Moreover, when NaNo 2008 was going on, CreateSpace offered a free proof copy of the manuscript to every NaNo winner. The opportunity was there, to use as a last resort if I wasn't able to secure anyone by the time I was ready with Book 1.
That's what ended up happening.
I'm a New Yorker, not born but certainly raised. I graduated college with a degree in Criminal Justice, am not working in the field, but hopefully, that will change in time. Love to travel, love to try out new foods and frequent plenty of restaurants. Love my friends, love spending time with them.
I write a lot of random things, not always sci-fi, but that's mostly me flexing the style muscle. I read a lot of random things as well, mostly mysteries and thrillers, as well as true-crime books. A lot of it is because of my studies; you can take a girl out of sleuthing, you cannot take sleuthing out of a girl.
I edit others' work as well as my own. However, after Book 1...editing is best done with my editor.
I am versatile in both Mac and PC machines and own one of each. Love Photoshop, love InDesign...not a fan of the Mac OS, to be honest.
Annnnd...the how.
Frankly, and this is something that I'm sure goes without saying...I love to write. It's freeing, it's flexible, and it's my favorite medium of expression. The thing is, until I did NaNo 2006, I didn't really have a working plotline that I could stretch into more than just a short story.
The plot was something I kept tossing around for years. I think I was about 14 when I started putting it together the first time, but had no way to come up with an opener to the story. Moreover, I wanted to start something that I could keep working on - not just write, print and have done. I ended up shelving the idea of writing a book until I reached college.
I de-shelved it shortly after some very personal upheavals, if only as a way to keep myself distracted from the RL goings-on. It was fall of 2006, senior year of college, and my friend Candice convinced me to give NaNo a shot. By the time, I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to see from the story, so I figured that I might try.
For those of you who hadn't tried NaNo, I recommend it just for the experience. 50,000 words in 1 month may look easy, but by the time you reach 30,000....it's like pulling teeth. I finished the contest and won, but the book was a lot less than complete. I finished it fully about a week before Christmas.
Since then, I've written for NaNo every year and am gearing up to do the same thing again. The series is an ongoing, long-term project that I'll keep working on as long as I have the inspiration to do so.
Why self-publish?
The answer to that is simple: I had little other choice.
I queried agents repeatedly ever since the book was done. My end result was nearly always uniform: compliment on the plot and idea, but no actual "We'll work with you." Moreover, when NaNo 2008 was going on, CreateSpace offered a free proof copy of the manuscript to every NaNo winner. The opportunity was there, to use as a last resort if I wasn't able to secure anyone by the time I was ready with Book 1.
That's what ended up happening.
