LB’s Blog
Thoughts On Pros & Cons of Going Indie
I’ll be on a panel at AWP in February (2012) so I’ve created this little handout for whoever attends. I thought I’d share it with others who won’t be there. It’s a list of the reasons I had for becoming an Indie author. And then a list of the reasons I came up with against becoming an Indie author. Hint: that list is shorter. By the way, I’ve now published five books as an Indie. One with co-author Karen Cantwell. And two under my pen name L B Swan and co-author’s pen name Hope Chandler. I leave it...
read moreAn Interview about The Naked Gardener
Here are a few questions readers have asked about The Naked Gardener How did you come up with the idea of a naked gardener? A: At a certain point in my life, I knew three women who gardened naked. They all had different takes on why they did it but all of them felt it was really important to them. So I began to think about a woman who goes to her garden naked and what that might mean and in what ways it was liberating for her and important in her life. Is the concept, um, autobiographical? A: No. Except that I love to nurture and grow living...
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