Tag: Scott Sigler

Cathedral in MoreliaNext week I will complete one of my New Year’s Resolutions — to self-publish my novel Palace of the Blue Butterfly.

You know, chicas, I always thought I’d forever be the one to play by the rules and stick with the traditional, accepted route: write queries, wait, get an agent, wait, etc.. And then, I reached a certain age — Ladies, can I hear an AMEN!?! — when playing by the rules didn’t interest me so much. Look, I figure everything I have in life comes from the fact that . . .

Anyway, as you all know, one of my goals for the year is to self-publish my book. I’m going to put Palace of the Blue Butterfly up on my website as a free audio book for you. My progress so far? Episode one is recorded and edited. With all the other chores around here, the first episode took about a week to complete. I made a recording of the first chapter, but when I played it back, there was too much echo. (Ah, the old NPR days came back to me.) Still, I practiced editing on Garageband. Woo-hoo. Garageband! ME! . . .