My Inspiration to Write a Book - AuthorHouse Author's Digest

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AuthorHouse author Michelle Dubois talks about her debut novel on the AuthorHouse Author?s Digest

AuthorHouse Author?s Digest welcomes AuthorHouse author Michelle Dubois to our ranks of guest bloggers.? Michelle provides some fascinating insights into her writing career; how it started, how she?s getting on and where she?s headed. From creating her title to conjuring her characters for The Pond, Michelle provides detailed insights into her writing process. She also has some advice on how she markets her book.

My Inspiration to Write a Book
By Michelle Dubois

To be honest with you, I never aspired to be a writer.

Never would I have ever thought I could have written a 385 page novel that my readers tell me is one of the best stories they have ever read.

My inspiration to write this story was a dream I had years ago when I was canoeing along in this very beautiful tropical paradise and Garden of Eden.? As I canoed, I came to these very high cliffs on each side of me. As I passed through the cliffs I could see people living inside of them. When I neared the end of the cliffs, people were waiting for me and helped me up to shore. When I got out of my canoe, they took me inside the cliffs where they lived.

The rest of this experience is shared inside of my book.

Creating My Story?s Characters
In order to share this story, I created some strong characters whose role was to get you to this tropical paradise and tell a beautiful story about it. Not only did I create Natowa (who was born Miguel), Marilyn, Michael, Alex, Allen, Quinn, Catharine, Emmanuel, Joseph and Jonathon, but they sprang to life and they wrote the story through a very adventurous and spellbinding journey.

How the Pond became The Pond
The book was named The Pond, for two reasons.

One reason was because there is a mysterious pond that is described in a tropical garden where magical mystery lies, and a secret inside the pond that could change the world.

The second reason is because the pond brings the characters, which are worlds apart, together for a common reason. The reason being is what?s inside the pond.

My AuthorHouse Experience
Okay, so now I wrote this wonderful book, so now what?

Now I have to find someone to publish it.

Being that I didn?t want a publishing company to control how to market my book, I thought that self-publishing was the best opportunity for me. After speaking and researching the services from AuthorHouse, I decided that this was the right publishing company for many reasons.

One of the reasons was that even though I maintain full rights to my book, AuthorHouse had many venues to help me promote my book, including having my book reviewed by Kirkus Indie Review, TV advertising, websites, e-mail marketing campaigns, and one venue that I am definitely going to take advantage of, which is to promote my book to movie producers to be considered for the big screen.

At no cost to me, AuthorHouse, based on my Kirkus Indie Review, submitted my review to be considered for a movie or T.V. show to Meridith Viera Productions. I may have never had this opportunity with another publishing company.

My Future as a Writer
Like my readers, I grew to love the characters in my book and find there is still much room for a continuance of this story to tell. I have started the sequel and I am hoping to launch The Pond II by Christmas.

The other reason I decided to write the sequel is because I find that readers take you much more seriously as a writer when you write a sequel or more than one book of the same genre. If your readers enjoy one of your books, they are much more likely to read another one.

A great way to get readers to follow you is to join discussion groups on websites like Goodreads and Twitter. So my advice to new authors is to always set your book up for a sequel or trilogy.

As for my future as an author, I have grown to love writing and feel it will be a lifelong endeavor for me.

Thank you and I will see you in my dreams!

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