Welcome All!
Hello everyone and welcome to my website! It's a little rickety and still under construction, and probably shouldn't be open yet. But hey, we all have to learn somehow. To get to know a little about me, let me just take the About Me section and paste it here:
Hi, I'm Kassie, a non-binary Scottish indie author and creator currently releasing my debut work Dreams of Sapphos, and writing the rest of the Odyssey to Sapphos series among other in-development projects.
My genres of choice often fall to science fiction and fantasy, but I do enjoy a bit of historical fiction from time-to-time.
When I’m not writing or at my day job, I love reading, gaming (video and board), skating (inline), being a bit of an amateur historian, and occasionally going on small adventures.
I’ve been writing and creating my whole life, from shoddily drawn comic books to terrible fan fic and short films. Throughout my teenage years and into my twenties is when I really solidified my desire to be an author. I was always going to do something creative, I just had to settle on what.
For the last decade or so, I’ve been set on being an author and spent a lot of time researching publishing options. For the longest time, I was set on eventually going traditional, but ended up settling on indie for a few simple reasons:
I feel like there's more room to learn and grow with less pressure to be a hit out of the gate.
My partner (co-creator or the story and universe) and I have spent years on Odyssey to Sapphos and Orbis as a whole, and we'd prefer for it to be creator owned.
I want to build a grass roots community. Maybe this is silly for me to admit, but I kinda enjoy the idea of being a part of a community for the stories I write. That's not inherently silly--I'm sure lots of creatives love their fans. The silly part is declaring it so openly in my first post, when there's no guarantee this will go anywhere.
I think Dreams of Sapphos would benefit from a chapter-by-chapter release. I enjoy writing episodic chapters that would maybe be a little bit of a rougher read if published all at once. I still have faith that it's a good book no matter which way you prefer to read it, but I do enjoy the idea of the characters going on good ol' fashioned weekly adventures, as it were.
And, lastly, I just finished reading Poor Artists by The White Pube in the weeks leading up to launch. It helped motivate me to make more progress towards my goal in two months than the last ten years. Well, that and setting a goal to be published by the time I’m 30. At the time of launching, I’m 29 and suffering some serious existential dread. Anyway, Poor Artists put me in a very fuck the system sort of mood. It doesn’t matter whether I publish as a serial on my patreon or traditionally through the system, on a long enough timeline, everyone is eventually forgotten. Why spend so much time and effort seeking fame and accolades if everyone’s fate is the same? What really matters is the joy of writing and making art, and the enjoyment and passion of the people who read and connect to it.
So welcome aboard! I hope you enjoy what you find here and will stick with me as Lena, Florentine, and the gang go on a grand journey across the world of Orbis.