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I’ve always had dreams of traditional publishing. Again, it was a matter of working with the submissions, editing, and formatting, but I at least had a sense of what I was doing this time around.Īre you indie, traditional, hybrid, or vanity, and why? I put out the call for submissions for the second non-fiction book I published, Project Dermatillomania: Written On Our Skin, in February 2016, and then it was published in March 2017. I would say my publishing timeframe has improved since that first publication. (If applicable) Has your publishing timeframe improved at all since your first publication? Between receiving submissions, editing, and then formatting, it took a couple of years before the first edition was published in 2014. The first of those, Project Dermatillomania: The Stories Behind Our Scars, began as an idea in 2012 and is an anthology of works from people who live with excoriation (skin-picking) disorder (also called dermatillomania). I do have two non-fiction books published though. Hopefully, it will be in print someday in the near future. I’ve written, and revised, and queried Killing Secrets since 2005, but it’s just not there, yet. I don’t have any fiction books published, which is not for lack of trying. If you’ve published, how long did your first book take? I was super proud of that book, and the story and characters still mean a lot to me, but I don’t think I’ll ever publish it. I was absorbed by that story and wrote almost every day.

I kept all the pages in a special binder and dated my progress each day so I could keep track of how I was doing.

I don’t think I had a computer yet, and I was writing everything out by hand.

I wrote many “books” starting from that young age, but the first one I really had ambitions of publishing took me 4 months to write the first draft. How long did it take you to finish your first book? Reading has always been a big part of my life, and the stories I read or even the ones I saw on TV inspired my earliest works and drive to write fiction. I had all these stories floating around in my head, and I felt the need to tell them. I started really getting into writing when I was 9 years old. Recent Fiction WIPs: Killing Secrets (High Fantasy) and The Assistant (Romance) Recent Non-fiction Publication: Project Dermatillomania: The Stories Behind Our Scars and Project Dermatillomania: Written On Our Skin (Second editions, 2020) Toni Morrison is quoted as saying, “If there’s a book you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.” This resonates with me and is at the core of what I do. I used to consider myself strictly a fantasy author, and, while the novel that has taken up the bulk of my life is fantasy, I wouldn’t consider myself exclusively a fantasy writer anymore. Barton, and I write a mix of fiction and non-fiction.