A to Z and IWSG: Going Indie: A is for Anticipation

 

I'm such a popular girl today, that I'm invited to TWO parties today: Blogging A to Z and The Insecure Writer's Support Group. 

Luckily for me, my theme for A to Z is writing related (Going Indie!), so I'm going to try to put these together.  

Don't forget to check out the other participating blogs in AtoZ as well as the Insecure Writer's Support Group blog hop and its fabulous hosts today: Melissa Maygrove, Cathrina Constantine, Kate Larkinsdale, and Rebecca Douglass!

So, let's talk about Anticipation. 

the infamous moment in the Rocky Horror Picture Show

 

When it comes to Going Indie in my writing life, I considered it from the beginning, which for me was 2014, when I was shopping around Going Through the Change, which would become my first published novel, to small publishers after having already spent two years querying for another novel to Big 5 publishers. 

But, that was 2014. It was harder then. Not that it's easy now, but information is more widely available, some of the stigma and snobbery has abated, and tools and systems have improved. When I looked at it in 2014, I was daunted. I knew I couldn't manage alongside a teaching job and raising two young children, so I put that idea on the back burner. 

But I never let it go. 

There's so much about indie publishing that appeals to me: being in creative control and exerting greater influence over timing ranking high on the list! 

So, in 2025, when my last contracted novel for Falstaff Books was published, I decided my next project would be indie. 

So, that's what, a decade or so of anticipation? Sooooo worth it, though. Hope you'll join me for the rest of A to Z (a post a day, excepting Sundays, in April) to hear about why.   

IWSG's question is all about music today:

April 1 question - If you have a playlist (or could put one together) that either gets you in the groove to write or fits with one of your books, what is it? What type of music or what songs?

 So, how perfect is it that to build a little anticipation for that first indie book, Not Too Late: A GenX Romance, releasing on April 28, 2026, I've got a playlist of the songs that served as my chapter titles.

 

 

 

If that little preview has you humming along, you can can listen to whole thing on YouTube.  I don't always do playlists for my writing projects, but it was a natural fit for this one, with two GenXers meeting again, 35 years after high school and falling in love. Amanda and Chris definitely have an 80s soundtrack playing under their love story. 

 

Thanks for popping by my blog today!