My two most recent novels are The F Words (City of Light Publishing, 2021) and Exit Velocity (Philbar/BookBaby, 2024). While The F Words was published by an indie publisher that has been around since 2006, I published Exit Velocity on my own, through BookBaby. I usually self-publish on KDP, but this time around I wanted to try something different.

For both novels I worked hard at publicity, and I tried especially hard to arrange bookstore events. For The F Words I drove to perhaps 20 book...