Inspirational weekend? Authors hunker down ahead of Matthew
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — Genre fiction readers: Your next potboiler will likely involve a hurricane.
That’s because dozens of indie authors — writers who eschew the traditional publishing world and self-publish directly to sites like Amazon — are gathered at a Hilton hotel outside Orlando, riding out Hurricane Matthew this weekend.
I’m one of those authors. By day, I’m a correspondent for The Associated Press. By night, I’m a romance author. This was supposed to be my week off, and part of my vacation plans involved hanging out at the Altamonte Springs Hilton for three days with dozens of other writers, talking about words and marketing.
But then Hurricane Matthew hit, and I had to switch from fiction to non-fiction.