The Publishing Road Less Travelled

Or less traveled, if you’re American.

Writers in their yellow wood of composition come to their own diverging roads at last, and have to decide which path to send their completed book down – the conventional route via agent and publisher, or the other, self-publishing. Is the latter still the one less travelled? Possibly not, these days.

I have been very happy with the conventional route, and have not given up on it, but I like to dally with the other option too. It’s at least partly to do with age. I feel the sands running through my hourglass, and do I really want to waste time on the long and often bruising journey in search of a publisher? With my science fiction, the answer was no. That was in part because we were in the midst of a pandemic when everything had ground to a halt and books that I had out there all seemed to be on hold. I self-published my science fiction because I wanted to feel in control of something, anything. I wanted something to happen.

Now I am doing it again with a pair of books that I had already had published conventionally. SHADOWS and LONG SHADOWS. I have reclaimed them and put them out there on Kindle under my own steam because I’ve sort of got a taste for it. So here they are.

Tales of the deceptively old house, Llys y Garn, in the depths of North Pembrokeshire. A house nursing shadows of the past and making the shadows of the future. A slight touch of the paranormal in SHADOWS, and a serious delve into history (Victorian, Stuart and Mediaeval) in LONG SHADOWS. Both available on Kindle and free, of course, on Kindle Unlimited.

And let’s not forget my Science Fiction, either.