Hello Out There

Being a self-published author is a weird position. When I initially drafted GGTR in 2021, it was mostly an exercise in seeing if I could do it--if I could write a full draft of a short novella, not having completed a manuscript in over a decade. I decided to self-publish it mostly so that my friends could read it, and also because I thought the process would be interesting and fun. And it was! I got to take in feedback, learn to format, hire my dear friend Abby Gavit as my cover designer, and relearn the ins and outs of KDP (which had changed a lot since the old CreateSpace days.)

To my surprise, GGTR did pretty well for the fantasy debut of someone who, until fairly recently, was mostly known for horror fanfiction. I have my long-time friends and their generous word of mouth to thank for that. And so I ran headlong into the next project, TM. I started trying to learn how to navigate author Twitter and the other author spaces online. And I came up short against a pretty big wall, which was myself.

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