![]() ![]() ![]() Robin had noticed that my name was showing up on the big name author’s pages on Amazon. ![]() When my fifth book, Wintertide, was released in October 2010 we saw sales more than double. When the first printing of The Crown Conspiracy sold out we got the rights back for it and it joined the rest. I really liked the one-book-every-six-month release cycle so we continued to put them out ourselves because going after another publisher would have disrupted that flow. We already had bookstores and book clubs lined up for an April release (we were notified in March) so the only way to get it out in time was to self-publish. That press had financial problems the whole time we were with them, and when they didn’t have enough money to print the second book the rights reverted. It took her a few years but she eventually found me an agent, then later a small press (AMI in Minnesota) to release the first book. My intention was to share it with a few friends and that would be good enough.” My wife fell in love with the stories and became determined to get them out there. When I started writing again, I had no desire to publish so I just wrote something I wanted to read. I had tried for more than a decade to get published and after failing miserably I gave up writing altogether for about a decade. Switching from self to a big-six was really my wife’s idea. Although you’ve expounded upon it in prior interviews, can you give readers at SFFWorld a quick overview? Your road to publication with Orbit has been a story in and of itself. ![]()
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