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Why am I going my own way?

April 2, 2011 By Lynne Leave a Comment

Let me just be clear about one small point.  Writing a novel was on my Bucket List. What was not on my list was publishing a novel.  I wrote for myself, my family, and my friends.  Those  same people kept encouraging me to find a publisher for my work.  Blame them!

The problem came with the “who and how” for publishing.  Who would be interested and how would I find them?  I submitted a blurb in a contest and wound up being asked to submit the full manuscript, but that resulted in something less than a satisfying experience for me.  It wasn’t about being rejected, but it was about a level of arrogance on an executive editor’s part that was uncalled for.  That’s a story of its own.  But take a look around and what you’ll find is that there are very few print publishers who accept unsolicited manuscripts and finding an agent is its own unique search.

What I’m not interested in, is being treated like a commodity.  The simple truth is that I prefer to be responsible for my own destiny.  Even in the military, I was frequently in one-deep positions.  I had a boss, but I worked alone for the most part.  My time was my own, and my responsibility was to accomplish my assigned duties.  Being an author is a lot like that.  I don’t need someone else to impose deadlines and restrictions – I’ll do it myself.

It’s also not about being able to work with someone.  I’m quite capable of getting along with others – most of the time.  And, for the record, I’m not afraid of criticism.  There are about ten people who beta-read for me, and trust me on this, they are not afraid to criticize me.  Sometimes I wish they were.  I listen to them (they’re smart people) but in the end, the person who decides what goes in is me.  That’s why I’m careful to only work with people who I respect.  The coolest thing about being on my own – I chose my own editor (poor Marcia is regretting that one), my cover designer, and the rest of my team.  Also for the record – I love my team.

There are two other reasons for me to do it this way.  They go hand-in-hand with each other.
Marketing and earnings.  I’m watching wonderful authors who have traditional publishers, and they are working their butts off to market their own books.  If I’m going to work that damn hard, then I want to keep a little more of the money.  Hold your mail – if you’re happy with your publisher, then I’m happy for you!  It’s not about you and your deal – this is about what makes me happy.

So as always, I’ll go my own way.  Being on my own, writing what I want to write, selling less, but making more on what I do sell, and working with a team of people that I respect and love.  For me, it simply doesn’t get any better than that.

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Protecting Parker Now Available!

March 19, 2011 By Lynne Leave a Comment

“Protecting Parker” by Lynne Scott.

Physically wounded and emotionally haunted by a harrowing overseas deployment for the Air Force, First Sergeant Parker Cotton returns home to face even more trouble. Her estranged husband, attorney Alex Hamlin, has filed for divorce. To make matters worse, while she was overseas, Alex has gone from being remote and uncaring to paranoid and dangerous. And Parker is now the target of all his rage. When Alex attacks her, only the intervention of Security Forces Master Sergeant Gray Townsend prevents Alex from doing serious damage. Fighting his own demons from the deployment, Gray feels he failed to protect Parker in the field, and he is determined to make sure he doesn’t fail her again. Leaving the past behind will not be easy for either Parker or Gray as they face Alex’s instability and anger and the lingering trauma of the deployment.

“Protecting Parker” is available NOW for the Kindle via Amazon.com, and is also available for the Nook via BN.com.

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An Accidental Author

March 16, 2011 By Lynne Leave a Comment

My journey began as a challenge.  In a discussion with my friend Jennifer, I was complaining bitterly about a vampire book we’d both read.  We both loved the concept and the hero, but hated many other elements.  I told Jennifer that even I could do better.  With nothing more than forty plus years of being a voracious reader, I set out to write a vampire novel.  I had an idea, I created a world, I had a conflict, and I had eight main characters.  What the hell was I thinking? 

Five weeks and 125,000 words later, I had my first draft.  Jennifer struggled through it and informed me that I was way to “nice,” and I failed to deliver enough blood or bodies in my finale.  But she loved the characters and the concept – except for my heroine.  Apparently, my female lead was way to accepting, needy, and a wimp.  Did I mention that she also thought it would be better broken into four separate books?  Four books?  The one I’d written wasn’t that good, how could I write four?  I put the supernatural aside and decided to tell a different story.  When in doubt, write what you know. 

Protecting Parker started life as The Shirt’s Tale.  Titles are not my strength.  Parker is the story of a first sergeant who returns from a tough deployment to more trouble at home.   It was based on an imagination fed by too much pizza and caffeine.  The idea was “what if” we had deployed and “this” happened.  While the first draft was loads better than my vampires, it still had a long way to go.  Eventually, after a lot of work, self-edits, beta-reads, and patience from my friends and editor, Protecting Parker is ready to go and will be available next week. 

In between the edits on Parker, I returned to my vampires.  With more guts than brains, I have split the giant mess of a book into the four primary stories and gone back to work.  The first book of my Blood Link series will premier later this summer.  Jennifer has finally been satisfied that there is enough blood, violence, and sex.

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