Patti Davis's Blog, page 2
April 23, 2013
Till Human Voices Wake Us
I just got an advance copy of the print version -- Till Human Voices Wake Us will be available in print on Amazon (through CreateSpace) on April 30th. The book looks great -- so exciting!
April 19, 2013
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Here's my new revelation about self-publishing: I think it's vital for writers to have a fighting chance in the world by being able to put their work out there. I love the story in my novel -- I wouldn't have worked on it for over a decade if I didn't love it. No publisher was going to give me a chance to release it into the world, where it could succeed or fail on its own merits. Because they had put ME -- not my work -- ME -- in a box and that's all they could see. I am so grateful to Kindle Direct Publishing -- they've led the way in this revolution and I feel like I have a whole new career!
April 13, 2013
Till Human Voices Wake Us
Years ago -- more than ten -- I overheard a conversation by strangers about two sisters-in-law who fell in love with each other and then simultaneously divorced their husbands. Were they gay or bisexual already? I heard. No, they fell in love.
Wow, what a wonderfully complicated story, I thought. When I sat down to start a novel from that seed, I had to find a way in for these two women to fall in love. Years ago I knew a woman who lost her young child in a swimming pool accident. She said she never found out who left the screen door open. I combined these two stories and I was off on an adventure that I didn't know the track of, or the ending of, until I got there. I put this novel aside when publishers turned it down...because it wasn't about the Reagans and I'm so famous for writing about my famous family. But you know what? I have other stories to tell. This is one of them. So I self-published it. I highly recommend self-publishing.
Wow, what a wonderfully complicated story, I thought. When I sat down to start a novel from that seed, I had to find a way in for these two women to fall in love. Years ago I knew a woman who lost her young child in a swimming pool accident. She said she never found out who left the screen door open. I combined these two stories and I was off on an adventure that I didn't know the track of, or the ending of, until I got there. I put this novel aside when publishers turned it down...because it wasn't about the Reagans and I'm so famous for writing about my famous family. But you know what? I have other stories to tell. This is one of them. So I self-published it. I highly recommend self-publishing.
