About This Blog

Skidding in Sideways.

That’s the way I’m navigating life right now.

Forget doing things the normal way and making a dignified entrance. Nope. I tried dignity, and I found that it did not suit me.

So here I am. An author whose first manuscript was rejected by traditional publishers. The novel was well-written and clean, they said, but the market was just too small. But there was one caveat: if I self-published and sold 1,000 copies, my book would be picked up. That was my quest: to typeset my manuscript, design the cover, and publish my first novel.

Well, it didn’t quite work out as planned. You can read all about it here.

And I couldn’t be more thrilled to remain an indie author. I’m planning to release more books in the coming months, so watch out!

In addition to my trippings in author-land (winks to Emily Chubbuck Judson), I will post and comment on links to the latest news in the publishing world so that, if you are a sideways-skidding writer like me, you can follow along or disregard at will.

And keep an eye out for my first novel Charlotte Collins and my new thriller Absolute Liability. Caroline Bingley, another Austen sequel is out now.