To Start

For much of my life, I was so busy with job, family, etc. I didn't have the sustained time or energy to pursue writing. Now I work only part-time, have significantly cut back on volunteer work, and family demands are less.

Several years ago as that started to happen, I began writing more seriously. When I reached the stage of being ready to publish a novel (not the first - like many first efforts, it was a wonderful learning tool but ...), I discovered the process of finding a publisher/agent was incredibly time and energy consuming. When I got the second rejection letter from the same agent (she obviously didn't remember that she had already rejected me once), I decided it wasn't worthwhile. What I really wanted to do was write.

As I explored options, I discovered the self-publishing process was not particularly complicated. I can't say it doesn't take time and energy away from writing, but has a definite result. Perhaps the next agent/publisher would have accepted me as a client, but there was no guarantee of that and I could envision myself devoting effort to that at the expense of my writing. -So I went the self-publishing route.

I formed a company to distribute my work, and maintain a website - www.ingoldsbybooks.com for that purpose.

There are more of us out there with the time and ability to write, and with this technology, we can publish our own work.