I’ve made a decision.
2021 is going to be the year I finally, finally, go all in on trying to make self-publishing a thing in my life.
My plan is simple. I’m going to publish romance novels. They’re my first love. I found my traditional publishing niche in children’s literature, but I started out to be a romance writer.
I decided to go with a pen name for a couple of reasons.
Reason one: see children’s literature. I don’t want to write both middle grade books and smut with the same name.
Reason two: I’m a teacher at heart and I want to be able to teach the things I’m learning to other people. That means starting from scratch and doing things that can be recreated. I don’t want to mess up my experiments by using my own already-established audience.
So, I have a pen name. And a month ago, I created a brand new email list. You know — with zero subscribers.