Ramblings… May 22, 2023

This week, I thought I may just share with you an excerpt from an interview I did with the lovely Michele Orwin for her website Bacon and Books. It is focussed on the self-publishing side of writing. I have self-published five of my seven books.

Why did you decide to self-publish? Did you have any doubts?

I think it was just about impatience at the beginning, the waiting for a response, knowing it was unlikely to be favorable anyway. My mother calls me a go-getter, and I never thought that was a good thing, but I didn’t want to leave my fate in the hands of the gods of publishing, so off I went and did it myself. There were and are plenty of doubts, constantly gnawing away at me sometimes taking away every creative instinct I have. The what if I ruin this, sully my name? But in the end, I always come back to that saying – the biggest regrets are not for the things you did, but for the things you didn’t.

To read more, head over to https://www.baconandbooks.com/bacon-and-books/the-not-waiting-for-someone-else-to-decide-when-to-release-my-book-meet-author-and-teacher-rita-h-rowe

Until then…