The Muses wake me early and keep me up late. They follow me everywhere. I carry pen, paper, netbook, blackberry to catch the words they whisper to me. All I want to do is write and share what I've written. I had a chance to go with a traditional brick and mortar publishing house but I disliked the editorial practices that bordered on censorship, the cover prices that stopped short of pulling a gun on the reader, and the waste of huge galley runs and proof runs and cover runs and running of the bulls.
I've been lucky enough to team up with someone who not only shares my vision of the publishing process but predicted the indie/small press trend almost fifteen years ago. Inknbeans Press offers me the freedom I want and the support I need to write what I want to write.
Aside from that I drink coffee.