Some people say, “I am an Author,” and some say, “I am a writer. ” It means the same thing to many people. I feel that if you write for yourself and it gives you pleasure, then you are a writer.
If you write a book, have it spell and grammar checked and edited, and submit it to 100 publishers and get 99 or 100 rejections, you could still be considered an Author. If you do the “Indie Author” thing, you are an Author. and It doesn’t matter if you sell one or 100K books; you are an Author.
I chose the Indie method and got lucky in finding Draft2Digital Publishers. I sold more books in the first couple of months than in two years with my previous Indie publisher. I may never be a million-seller or on the NY bestseller list, but some of my books have been sold to libraries for free reading. That pleases me, and that is important.
I am a Pant’ser writer! That means I do not outline or do anything else that sounds like “work.” I start with a basic premise, and from there, the characters tell me what to write. I picture any action in living color and in motion, in my mind. And I am my own worst critic!
Some of my characters are so real to me that I cry when they are hurt or killed. I re-write several times, and Grammarly helps me with spelling and gross grammatical mistakes.
I am behind on books that are still in my head, waiting to get out of my prison. I am two books behind on my Young Adult series. This is a fun adventure of a family that I sent into space to help colonize an uninhabited planet in another galaxy. So far, they have met three very different inhabitants. The characters are patterned after some real friends in Seattle, WA. I made the children grow up in the books just like they did in real life.
If you want to find my books, they are available in eBook and paperback at most of your favorite book sites, like Smashwords, Books2read, Barnes and Noble, and, of course, Amazon. If you type my name, Brenda Colbath, in the search bar, they will pop up. Also, they are on my website, with links: http://www.brendacolathbooks.com.
See ya next time,
Published by Time Traveler of Life
Biography
Creating worlds, characters, and wielding power like a madwoman, making my characters happy, sad, angry, and some of them with no redeeming qualities. I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I sometimes laugh out loud when I am writing a scene, and I have been known to cry when one of my favorites has to die.
I am a left-handed Gemini, what do you expect?
Reading bedtime stories to my two children until they fell asleep or until they just told me to go away, was fun. Making up wild stories for my grandchild, and creating Halloween costumes from Cowboys to a Dragon, was another favorite thing to do. I missed that so much when they were grown, that I started writing.
My yearly newsletters frequently were drafted third-person by my Love Birds, Miranda our motorhome, and by Sir Fit the White Knight, our faithful Honda.
Throughout the years, some of my creative talents centered around writing letters of complaint expressing my displeasure with services or products. One crucial, at least to my Son, was a note to our local school bus driver petitioning her to allow him back on the bus. He was kicked off for making an obscene gesture at his buddy. I reminded her that it was not directed at her, and that “obscenity can be in the eye of the beholder,” kids use that gesture as a greeting. He rode the bus until he graduated.
I loved driving my English teacher crazy. Leaving a “continued next week” at the end of my five handwritten pages required each week. He was one of many people that suggested I “do something about my writing.”
I graduated from the School of Hard Knocks at the top of my class.
After 30 years, in the trenches as a Real Estate Professional, I have found that truth is stranger than fiction. My books are filled with characters I met in that profession. Their names were changed to protect the guilty. Others were from people we met traveling around the country in Miranda, our Motorhome.
I am married nearly 60 years to the love of my life, Shirl, and partner-produced two exceptionally talented children, and one grandchild who is our pride and joy.
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