Well, I've decided that it's time to start writing again --- this time, not with a view to being published. Too many people 'publish' things these days, and the market is so crowded that no one gets attention- or makes real money from the effort.
So - I'll write, but I'll post the work on my website, with links to them from my author FaceBook page.
I started writing when I was in high school. Mostly fanfiction (before I knew that that's what it was called), based on many shows. Dark Shadows, Star Trek, Here Come the Brides, The Big Valley, The High Chapparal, Bonanza. I wrote original stories, too. Mostly gothic romances, which were what I read vociferously.
Those first stories have never been read by anyone else. It wasn't until later, when I had a DS novel and short stories privately published that others told me that I was a good writer, and that I should keep going. My creative writing teacher in high school agreed, and urged me to keep writing.
So I did. When I got online, and set up my first websites, I posted some of my older fanfiction there, and finally wrote a novel that I was lucky enough to have published by Double Dragon Publishing, "Blairview". They published a second novella, "The Dark Sorcerer", and I've yet to make more than thirty dollars in the years since they hit the market from them.
Writing for money isn't why I do what I do. I write first for myself. If someone else reads it and likes it, that's just icing on the cake.
Check out my FB page: https://www.facebook.com/NancyEddyAuthor/
And my website: http://nancyeddy.com/
See you later!
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