I am a lifelong book lover. I was the type of kid who preferred being in the library rather than playing recess or football with his friends. I’d always wanted to be an author and was fortunate at the age of 28 to have the first novel I wrote, Forever My Lady, which I originally self-published, become traditionally published by Hachette.

I soon found that I could make a comfortable living self-publishing (or indie publishing as we call it) and through ups and downs and changes from Amazon’s...