It is RELEASE DAY! It's honestly a bit surreal. Good luck on your authoring journey! No matter which route you go, it's a wild and fun ride!! (less) I think that in today's landscape, there is more opportunity than ever for authors to explore different business models and ways of shaping their careers.

If the right trad deal came along, I would definitely be open to being hybrid. Because I take home all of my royalties (after the retailer cut OFC!), I make a comfortable full-time living from my books, and I feel like it would have been a lot harder to do that as a mid-list author if I was trad. The financials of indie publishing are also very different than trad, and they've been very kind to me. My day job was in marketing and I went to school for graphic design, so I also felt like I had the skillset to leverage in an indie career (plus, those things are fun to me, so I wanted to be able to play with them!). I love being able to have full control over my output, books, packaging, marketing, and career. I've always been interested in entrepreneurship, so indie publishing really attracted me on that front. There were so many different factors that went into that decision. I' …more Thank you so much, I'm so glad you loved it and so appreciate your kind words!! I live with my fiance, one very well behaved rabbit, one very poorly behaved rabbit, and one perpetually skeptical cat in Rhode Island.moreĬarissa Broadbent Thank you so much, I'm so glad you loved it and so appreciate your kind words!! There were so many different factors that went into that decision. When I'm not writing, I'm working at my day job in cybersecurity marketing, watching too many movies, or drawing. Today, I write fantasy novels with a heaping dose of badass ladies and a big pinch of romance. Since then, my stories have gotten (slightly) less depressing and (hopefully a lot?) more readable. I've been concerning teachers and parents with mercilessly grim tales since I was roughly nine years old. I live with my fiance, one very well behaved rabbit, one very poorly behaved rabbit, and one perpetually skeptical cat in Rhode Island.

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