Shortly before Easter dinner at our friends Aric and Kim’s.
Bryon: Aric was telling me about some guy who is making a lot of money e-publishing.
Aric: Yup. He’s supporting himself.
Me: Oh yeah? Well, there’s this other woman, and she’s been picked up by a regular publisher. Shannon was telling me about her.
Bryon: Well, maybe this is something you should think about.
Me: I don’t know. It’s an idea, but I think I’d rather go a more traditional route. These guys are outliers, you know.
Aric: There’s no law that says you couldn’t do both.
Bryon: Yeah. You could just, you know, get a pseudonym, and you could do something that would be easy for you to write. Say, you know, the Abigail Rath books. There’s not a whole lot of e-publishing for young adults and middle grade yet.
Me (tempted): Well, it’s a thought. Tell you what. Let me look into it, think about it. It wouldn’t be instead of regular publishing, so that’s something.
Aric: Hey, lots of authors who publish traditionally are doing it.
Bryon: And if it gets me that Lost in Space robot faster, I’m all for it.
(While this story will not have any sort of conclusion for sometime, this conversation is an excellent segue way into the second part of the E.F. Kelley interview, up very soon.)
