So, you are thinking of going indie? Wondering what that means? What you could be getting into? The goal is to explore the pluses and minuses of publishing with an indie press, and how these affect such aspects of writing and publishing as editing, marketing, choosing a press and why, among other things. Students will discuss their expectations and ambitions and share experiences. I will share my own experiences, or how I finally gave up my dream of a national book tour and what kind of tour took its place. Students will have the opportunity to discuss their projects and get feedback on whether the indie route could be a more viable path for them to take versus a more traditional approach.
About the Instructor:
Warren Rochelle lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, and has just retired from teaching English at the University of Mary Washington. His short fiction and poetry have been published in such journals and anthologies as Icarus, North Carolina Literary Review, Forbidden Lines, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Collective Fallout, Queer Fish 2, Empty Oaks, Quantum Fairy Tales, Migration, The Silver Gryphon, Jaelle Her Book, Colonnades, and Graffiti, as well as the Asheville Poetry Review, GW Magazine, Crucible, The Charlotte Poetry Review, and Romance and Beyond. He had also published a critical work on Ursula K. LeGuin and academic criticism of speculative fiction in various journals.
His short story, "The Golden Boy," was a finalist for the 2004 Spectrum Award for Short Fiction. His short story "Mirrors," was published in Under A Green Rose, a queering romance anthology, from Cuil Press. "The Latest Thing," a flash fiction story, was published in the Queer Sci Fi anthology, Innovation in 2020.
Rochelle is also the author of four novels: The Wild Boy (2001), Harvest of Changelings (2007), and The Called (2010), all published by Golden Gryphon Press, and The Werewolf and His Boy, published by Samhain Publishing in September 2016. The Werewolf and His Boy was re-released from JMS Books in August 2020. The Wicked Stepbrother and Other Stories was published by JMS Books in late September 2020.
He is presently working on a novella continuing one of the stories in his collection. He wanted to know what happened next.
