Website Launch
In launching online store, author Tim Dreby comes out of the closet to promote his writing platform. Selling books and services independently marks a new beginning for the middle-age writer who works redefine the manner in which the public understands psychosis.
Oakland, California (PRWEB) July 09, 2018
July 7, 2018, in the volatile market of indie books and treating psychosis, is there any such thing as a guidebook? Ever since canceling a book contract to maintain the integrity of his work, author Tim Dreby has struggled with a profound sense of invisibility.
Like many independent authors in this era, Tim took to marketing with little guidance, time or money when his memoir Fighting for Freedom in America was released. Busy finishing up a grant program that was constructed off his own theoretical training platform, he did not immediately rise in Amazon’s ranks.
“There was barely time to read books on marketing,” says Tim. “I still was ambivalent about having my private world public. I couldn’t even get my mother to look at the book for two years and was worried how she would feel about it.” Much like the book was constructed organically and shaped into something that works,Tim approached the issue of being an author the iconoclastic tradition of authors he most admires, J.D. Salinger and Charles Bukowski, without doing research or conforming to social dictates.
He told an NPR journalist in a preliminary interview that he’d often heard things in local radio broadcasts about mental health that are offensive. Correspondence was cut off. Right before an interview with Malik Shakur of The Knowledge Show he signed into the page and viewed the image of a packaged condom that was ripped open. Tim felt it was an interesting interaction, yet was not invited back. On his interview with Will Hall on Madness Radio one listener commented, “For me this interview was one of the more ‘off beat’ ones I’ve heard thus far. Off beat in the sense of fascinating, informative, on the slightly bizarre side . . ., vulnerable, respectful, inclusive and ultimately oh so human.”
Tim’s former pen name still rests on his memoir, Clyde Dee. Clyde is Tim’s middle name and Dee is the first letter of his last name and the last name of his second favorite rapper all time.
Tim’s okay with owning his own experience and has found that family members support him or take offense regardless of the use of a pseudonym. Building a platform to promote his writing and sell his training and memoir has been a slow process and involved learning some new skills. He approaches marketing in a similar way that he has approached working with people who are in psychosis, listening to his own spirit more than guidebooks.
The site is full of mental health essays, poetry, and rough drafts and summations of his work with special messages.
He hopes with the launch of this site to give himself a new opportunity to get his word out and help re-define the public’s view of what psychosis really is. Visit http://www.timdreby.com.
