Broad with a Diverse Portfolio

As I prepare to launch my eBook, Tales from My Teachers on the Alzheimer’s Unit, I’ve been reading a lot about the branding required for online marketing. I choose to sidestep that kind of branding iron, and I’m sure I’m not the only writer to resist the laser focus on a specific goal or topic.

The book I’m about to send into the world, Tales from My Teachers on the Alzheimer’s Unit is a collection of narratives set in a nursing home, stories for adults seeking some redeeming truth beneath terrible suffering. It’s an updated edition of an out-of-print book published by Families International in 1996. At the same time, today I happily write fiction for young adults, and plan to e-publish one of my YA novels next year. Last week I had a political essay called “Ding Dong the DOMA’s Dead” published in Sheville, a regional online magazine. And I am proud to be a poet contributor to 2014 edition of the amazing We’Moon, which just hit the bookstore shelves.

So what’s my brand? It’s broad, as in wide-ranging, extensive, and expansive. I embrace my diverse author portfolio, and my broad, Gemini self as its own kaleidoscopic brand. I hope always to surprise myself, and my readers, with what I write next.