It wasn’t all that long ago that if an artistic person wanted to pursue a career in their genre, they had to get past the gatekeepers: Agents, editors, publishing houses, record labels, and so on. And if their work didn’t “wow” or suit the needs of the person they were pitching their vision to, their dreams were never realized. Today we live in an era of indie, and for the writer, with the advent of e-books and cost free print on demand, many new indie authors are crashing the gates and building their own careers. Read the rest of this entry »