Welcome to New Wave Authors!

In 2009, I self-published my first novel, Mercury Falls. The book was a modest success, selling nearly 5,000 copies over the next year.

About six months after self-publishing Mercury Falls, I was contacted by an editor at AmazonEncore, an imprint of Amazon Publishing. At the time, Amazon was just getting into publishing, and I had never heard of AmazonEncore. I thought that maybe it was some sort of add-on service to Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing service, the digital equivalent of a vanity press. Boy, was I wrong.

Amazon Publishing is a full-service publishing company, no different than any other publishing company. Well, they are different in a few respects: their parent company is the world's largest bookseller. Since signing with Amazon Publishing, I've sold a lot of books.

One of the most unexpected benefits of my association with Amazon Publishing, though, has been the opportunity to meet many other "Amazon authors" from all over the world, whose novels span a wide variety of genres, from mystery to sci-fi to literary fiction.

During one conversation with a group of these authors, I floated the idea of a website that would serve as a sort of hub for Amazon authors -- a place to talk about our experiences with writing and publishing, to keep readers up-to-date on our works in progress, and to reach more potential readers. To say that the idea was met with enthusiasm would be a significant understatement. I spent my spare time over the next several weeks building a site that would meet those goals. The result was this site, New Wave Authors.

To be clear, although the content on this site is produced by authors who are associated with Amazon Publishing, New Wave Authors is in no way affiliated with Amazon Publishing or Amazon.com. The opinions expressed here are those of the individual authors, and don't represent the views of all Amazon Publishing authors or Amazon Publishing itself.

Simply put, New Wave Authors is a community of Amazon authors who have come together to talk about our experience with writing, publishing... and pretty much whatever else we feel like talking about. This site is about our books and our stories. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we enjoy writing them.