Heidi Angell

I am excited to announce that I am participating in NanoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) for the first time! I am a bit nervous, because the idea of Nano is to write a novel in one month. The month they have chosen is November. The only worse month they could possibly pick would be December. I have put Nano off for the last two years, as I was busy with other projects. This year, I was certain until October 15th that I would not be doing Nano this year either. Then I unexpectedly finished edits early for The Hunters. Even though I have several other projects that need editing and a lot of other work: a friend was telling me how she participated in Nano last year, and this year she got to post her book that was published this year as a Nano book. Sales tripled. Hard to say no to free marketing like that! But, I have also had this Infection story eating at my brain (no pun intended ;) ) for the last two years. I decided that if I simply took a month off to write it, then moved it to the back of my to be edited pile, then it would give me motivation to get through my other two projects, AND this one before November next year! That would be awesome!!! At the very least, the story can get out of my head and stop distracting me from all my other projects! So, I will...

Hello folks! I am new to Author's Info, and excited to get to know people! I figured I'd take a moment to introduce myself in my first blog post. I am Heidi Angell and I am an author. Author. That is such a funny word. The Merriam Webster online dictionary define an author as- a : one that originates or creates : source b the writer of a literary work (as a book) So, yes, I am an author. I have written several books. I am also a PUBLISHED author, as I currently have two books for sale on Amazon and Nook. ( Royal prince Vince is a charming children's book and Creative Exercises to Inspire is a great way to get your creative juices flowing!) Yet, because I self-published, I am classified as a "Self-published author" which, is somehow considered less than a "real author". Here is where we escape the niceties of Miriam Webster and enter into definitions which are subjective. It really is quite messy. Many self-published authors are so frightened by the stigma of "self-published" that we would rather ride on the coat tails of "indie author" (which, until a few years ago, was as dirty a word as Self-published, but I shall not digress!) We form our own publishing companies, to make ourselves more presentable. But if a publishing company only publishes work by one author, and is owned and operated by the author, is it really an indie publishing house? Hmm.... Yet, I have one....