I had a lapse of faith. The religion of being a writer seemed to have no more heavenly promise. Books took a year or re to come back with form letters rejecting me. The gods of publishing did not want a male unknown writer doing romance.
I basically gave up. I had 11 books written, and several more partials staarted. but I lost my drive with my faith. I stopped paying money for writers group memberships. I stopped going to meetup groups to promote my work. I went back into the cubbyhole of real life, dealing with animal rescue and nature education.
But my writer side would not rest. I began doing other writings. I made up stories to do storytelling in my nature classes. I started writing newspaper articles and doing other works. Still it was not the same. then in 2011 I heard about something that brought me back to life. I heard about epublishing.
I went to a seminar on epublishing and saw so much potential. I learned a lot about it and now I have 4 books out on the epublishing market. I am putting up the 5th later this month. I have a whole page on Amazon at >>> http://www.amazon.com/S.-A.-Stone/e/B005DRI5JS/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1
I also decided to stop dealing with teh traditional publishers. They are the old gods in a new world. The religion of cowtowing to others idea of what will sell because they like it is over. Now I can write what I want and how I want. If it does not sell, then I am the only one at fault. In the new religion of the word of writing, god helps those who help themselves.
I made a small business out of helping others. I started an ePublishing help group on both facebook and on Meetup.com. I started teaaching a bit of what I learned through the local college at Wake Tech, and I started a new business at www.vbooks.com, actually setting up books to publish.
So, I have found my faith in my writing again, and I have started back on my path to publication. It is good. It has healed a hole in my life.
Besides, this is the only way I know I can actually get people to groan at my bad humor all over the world....
More later... or maybe sooner.
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