Public Library Of Me

I don’t have a plan to monetize my books. I’m discouraged that reading platforms aren’t offering something like the public library. The vast majority of the many hundreds of books I have read were from the neighborhood library. The closest option is KU and you still have to pay for it. So, I am trying pay-as-you-wish. I’m retired and I’m blessed to be able to experiment. I think the only way this plan would make any real money would be if a publishing house or production company wanted to produce a book or film. But I am committed to having my work available in the public library of me.

I have done this before. Almost 30 years ago I created the Little Bunny series a collection of preschool and kindergarten stories on Kindle and supported them with hundreds of free printables and read-alouds. Through Little Bunny’s long history there have been profitable years, nibbles from publishing houses and agents, and busts with the pandemic and education changes. But Little Bunny lives on with hundreds of thousands of visits from around the world. And with almost no input from me, once in a blue moon, I’ll post in a FB group for teachers or homeschoolers. The word is simply out and people are excited to use the resource. I love that children are learning their 123s, abcs, and first reading skills from something I created. It makes me happy.

And that is the goal of posting the romcoms on my artist’s website and offering them for whatever people want to pay, or nothing at all. I’m thrilled that someone would want to read something I wrote and I hope the readers feel they found something meaningful to them. So……Help Yourself, Tell Everyone, Enjoy!!! www.diannemillerart.com/books

When Dianne Miller moved to a new town, the workmen loading the truck asked, “Are you a librarian?” There were so many books. As a little girl, she couldn’t wait for Saturday mornings at the library; she always walked out with books stacked up to her chin. Through the decades, she binged the classics, cozy mysteries, contemporary fiction, biographies and memoirs, and random works of non-fiction. Her favorite authors were women, Jane Austin, the Bronte sisters, Agatha Christie, Maya Angelou, Ann Tyler, Amy Tan, and so many more. When her daughters left the nest, she decided to write fun contemporary stories that support women and told of their journeys through this complicated and challenging world.