Something Happened

When my graphic novels went out of print, I turned my hand to prose. I wrote a novel, and I wrote another.

My third found an agent. A very damn good agent, at that. She loved it, and she had editors in mind who she thought would love it too. The manuscript made its rounds, and got some very enthusiastic rejections. At one point Poison Door climbed the editorial food chain only to be rejected by marketing, who had reservations about the New Zealand setting and lack of American characters.

Meantime, I kept writing. My agent spent six months with my next novel before deciding it didn't quite fit her list. She reps literary thrillers and Crossroad Blues was a modern-day Western, a Noir thriller with plenty of action and a literary edge. She thought it'd make a better second or third novel, not a debut.

So I kept writing. I finished another novel, hemmed and hawed about whether my agent would like it enough to shop it. Whether editors would like it enough to spend thousands printing it. Whether marketing would like it enough to actually promote the damn thing.

And something happened.

Kindle hit a tipping point. Over the course of a few short months selling ebooks went from a tidy bit of side-money for published authors to a viable way for writers to get their work in readers' hands. Lots and lots of hands. The market had exploded.

It's a brave new world, my friends. We're in the middle of a Revolution!

Talk to me: tell me about YOUR ebook experiences. What do you like about ebooks? What don't you like? Authors, what's working for you? What isn't? Let's share!