Shayna Grissom Writes

self-publishing

  • To indie or not to indie

    Some of you might know me in writing servers, I’m apart of several. I’m an embarrassingly high level in a few and something that comes up often is whether or not to try querying or “just go indie”. Rather than blow up the chat and increase my participation level and get tagged by that awful… Read more

  • Indie Summary for 2025

    TL:DR Past blog posts: After wrestling the rights to The Dredes series out of my failing publisher’s hands, I went on a Self-Pub spree and rapid released horror books that have been stacking over the years. And here’s how it went… I started with The Night Dredes in August and The Day Dredes two weeks… Read more

  • A book a month

    I didn’t just crash into Indie-publishing with two books and a third coming out next week. This looks weird without context and I realize I haven’t given any context as to why I’ve pulled a book out of my ass every two weeks. I touched on it a little bit in previous posts, particularly The… Read more

  • Dance, Monkey

    Since the dawn of social media, writers were reassured by their agents that a platform wasn’t required.** Was it nice to have a built-in fanbase? Yeah! But it wasn’t a requirement because the publisher would tend to the marketing on behalf of the author. In the last few years it’s been a growing concern for… Read more

  • Behind the words: The Night Dredes

    The Night Dredes is kicking off my flagship horror series and a more serious foray into Self-Publishing, but it didn’t start out that way…. Sometimes I dream in High Definition, from start to finish stories and The Night Dredes, and it’s sequel, The Day Dredes were one of those situations. I don’t write every dream… Read more

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