Your three books seem to have a common thread in that they’re all about solving crimes. That email was worth-oh, about a million dollars to me. Once a woman wrote me saying her mom had recently died, and she consoled her father by reading When Pigs Fly to him. And although I make a few dollars writing, the ego boost from readers’ comments keeps me going even more. Lord knows I can’t play a piano, fly a plane, or write a computer program. Why do you write, what is it that makes you do it? A few of my short stories have been published over the years, I’ve sold non-fiction to several magazines, and I write book reviews as well.

Technical writing was my second career, and novel-writing was a hobby that allowed me to express myself creatively. Don’t settle for someone’s template.ĭo you have a background in writing or is this something you’ve undertaken as a second career? Have you been published elsewhere? You’ll also need a professional-looking cover. Get several competent critiques, and hire an editor. Be sure your novel is the absolute best you can make it. What advice would you give anyone who wants to try this route?ĭon’t cut corners. They put out a good product, though.ĬreateSpace doesn’t charge for publication, and they let the author set the price. They charged too much for publication and controlled pricing. Initially I published with iUniverse, which turned out to be a mixed bag. None sold any of my books, though, so I eventually decided to get my books published and let readers decide if they were good enough.Ĭan you share briefly your publishing experience with CreateSpace? I’d started writing novels around 1990 and found three agents over the years. Thanks for honoring me with an interview, Heidi. What made you decide to become your own publisher with CreateSpace? Welcome, Bob, and congratulations on your three books. Sam’s investigation of a brutal murder unearths painful memories that threaten to tear his own life apart. In Little Mountain, Sambath Long, a Cambodian refugee, is now an American homicide cop. His second book is Getting Lucky, a missing persons case, in which Pigs’ retired cop Mack Durgin is resurrected in the character of Clay Webster, Private Investigator. I just finished reading When Pigs Fly, a zany, “Three Stooges” or “Keystone Kops” type of adventure that takes you on a cross country chase from Massachusetts to Arizona. I got acquainted with Bob Sanchez through an on-line Blog Book Tour group and I’ve watched and listened as he went through the process of publishing his books through Amazon’s CreateSpace program.

Little Mountain by Bob Sanchez