Why I Decided To Self-Publish

I've been scribbling something or other since I could first hold a pen, but I have been writing seriously for about five years.

It all started with a trip to South America where I heard a story from the Independence Wars that hooked me. I started researching the background to it – just curious – and before I knew it, I was writing a historical novel.

It was a monster and took me over three years to write, but it gave me an excuse to go back to South America for another nine months. When I was...