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How Is Publishing More Books the Path to More Exposure?
As a writer, writing more books is what I do. With more books comes more exposure.
As part of my newfound self-advocacy, I’m going to share where I am, where I’ve been, and where I’m going with my writing career.
Where have I been?
I often share that I started to write sci-fi when I was just 9 years old (1981). By then, I had seen Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, and Buck Rogers — so my love of sci-fi was thoroughly ingrained.
Over the years, I wrote a variety of finished and unfinished sci-fi. When I got my first computer in the mid-1980s, I mostly moved away from handwriting and illustrating to typing.
Writing happened in fits and starts through High School and college. But then, somewhere in 1998, I started writing what would evolve into my Source Chronicles fantasy series.
Book one, , was the first book I had professionally edited. That did more for me and my writing than just clean-up my work. I learned invaluable things about the overall writing craft and process that I have carried with me ever since.
When I initially started self-publishing fiction at the end of 2014, it wasn’t until 2020 that I began to ramp up the process…