To read an exclusive interview with Leta Nolan Childers, click here.
Quotes about:
"Leta Nolan Childers is at the forefront of a second Renaissance...Ms. Childers is significant because she's in the vanguard of a huge cultural shift, one that just happens to coincide with the beginning of the third millennium." Wall Street Journal, Jan. 1, 2000
"This week sales of The Best Laid Plans by Leta Nolan Childers topped 6,000 copies, an e-book record. It's an auspicious occasion for the 150-plus e-publishers who collectively offer more than 3,000 titles, but who have struggled for recognition from traditional publishing houses." An Unbound Bestseller by MJ Rose, wired.com, Dec. 8, 1999
"...she produces, as she rather obliquely puts it, "books in electronic bindings" -- or, as the popular media would call them, e-books: electronic books, books that come in pixel format only. And she's quite happy with that fate." Forbidden Romance, salon.com, Sept. 29, 1999.
"She became probably the top-selling e-author in the U.S.--and possibly the world--by selling more than 6,000 copies of The Best Laid Plans at $3.50 for a download and $6.50 for a CD. Since then, she has churned out five kids' titles and nine adult books." TIME Magazine, Jan. 24, 2000.
"I live in a small community, and the access I had to the traditional publishing houses was very limited. When I was pursuing publication ... I had a vision of them getting my package and looking at the postmark and laughing and saying, 'I didn't know anyone in South Dakota knew how to put crayon to paper.'" Encyclopedia Britannica, Feb. 1, 2000
Ms. Childers has been featured in:
Salon, September, 1999
Wired.com, December,1999
Wall Street Journal, January, 2000
TIME Magazine, January, 2000
BBC-1 Radio, January, 2000
Encyclopedia Britannica, February, 2000
Montreal Gazette, February, 2000
Publisher's Weekly, March, 2000
The Independent (London daily,) April, 2000
Wired Magazine, May, 2000
Foreword Magazine, May, 2000
RTE (Irish National Radio,) May, 2000
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May 14, 2000
Corriere Della Sera (Italy's largest daily newspaper,) May,
2000
Sette Magazine, May, 2000
Wired.com, May, 2000
The Industry Standard, May, 2000
News Night, BBC, June, 2000
Writer's Digest, June, 2000
Writer's Digest Annual Yearbook, 2000
BBC-4 Open Book, August, 2000
Beyond Computers, October, 2000
Access Magazine, December,
2000
The Internet brought the world...and success...to the small rural town in South Dakota that award-winning author Leta Nolan Childers calls home.
After sending her manuscripts off to traditional publishers and collecting a nice assortment of friendly rejection letters, Nolan Childers began exploring alternative methods of publication. During her research, she happened upon DiskUs Publishing (www.diskuspublishing.com) and a healthy, mutually beneficial relationship began, culminating in one of her books, The Best Laid Plans, becoming the #1 best seller of 1999 and 2000 for a book in electronic binding.
The recipient of many local, regional and national awards for journalism during a 25-year career, Nolan Childers turned to seriously writing funny fiction about five years ago. Retiring from investigative journalism to raise the son she and her husband had adopted, Nolan Childers discovered that she simply just couldn't deny her need for writing. Between diapers and pre-school, Nolan Childers discovered her talent for spinning the lighter side of romance, mystery and life into a series of popular books published by DiskUs Publishing. She is also the author of more than 5,000 articles published in national and international magazines, ezines and periodicals.
At home in the oldest settlement in South Dakota, Fort Pierre, on the banks of the Missouri River, Nolan Childers enjoys computer games, Nascar racing and spending time with her husband, Lester, and their son, Christopher.
To visit Leta's site, go to letachilders.com or drop her an email at: Leta Nolan Childers
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An exclusive interview with Leta Nolan Childers:
Where do you live?
Dakota
Where can your fans write to you?
What inspires your books?
Usually a notion occurs while I'm doing everything except writing. I'll be vacuuming away or washing dishes or mindlessly watching a race on television and suddenly inspiration will hit.
In my latest release, The Rabbit Rises, I was washing windows when it occurred to me that I'd never read a romance in which the heroine just threw caution to the wind, picked a man seemingly at random and consequently ended up having the best sex of her life--without guilt or remorse. So, that's how The Rabbit Rises starts.
Or it can be a seemingly innoculous thing like hearing a headline or reading the paper. That's where the inspiration came from in a book I'm currently writing...about a woman who won several million dollars with a candy bar wrapper and subsequently losing it when her mother accidentally threw it in the garbage. The possibilities just start forming in my head...and the next thing I know, I have a book.
What's your writing day like?
It's all divided in bits and pieces, here and there, but I'm always thinking about what I'm writing, developing the plot and fleshing out the characters. My family has come to realize that when Leta gets that far away look in her eyes, she's in another world, a world of her creation. Usually, they just shrug and wait until I land back on earth. Though, there have been times when they've taken a bit of an advantage of that and I've ended up agreeing to somethings I probably would not have normally agreed with.
Tell us about your family.
I have the best and most supportive husband and son in the world. My husband is a broadcast engineer, who I met while working as a program director at a little 500 watt radio station. (See...Fireworks with Frequency.)
Do you have pets?
Does too many cats count? We have more cats than you can shake a stick at. Unfortunately, there is a surplus of cats in our community, so it's tough to give them away. And we're such tender hearts that we end up loving all of them dearly.
We also have some fish in an algae-infested tank...poor things.
What are your hobbies?
I enjoy collecting all sorts of things...little things that end up gathering dust.
What do you do in your leisure time?
Read. Read. Read.
I also enjoy watching Nascar races with the family...and movies. Though, I must admit that our choice of movies changed dramatically with the arrival of our son. We went from "Under Siege" to "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" almost immediately.
Who's your favorite author?
Robert Heinlein--who was so good at writing science fiction that I vowed I would never attempt to write it myself.
I also enjoy Tamar Meyers, Anne George, Piers Anthony, Jo Dereske, Jill Churchill, Linda Bleser, Maeve Binchy and many more authors. Those are authors I just automatically buy because I know I'm in for a good read.
What's your favorite book?
I keep going back to read "Time Enough for Love," by Heinlein...and then end up reading all of his books again and again.
What's your favorite movie?
The Philadelphia Story...the original with Kate Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant.
What music do you enjoy?
Everything from Mozart to Jimmy Buffett.
What's your favorite place?
My home.
What place that you haven't yet visited that you would enjoy visiting?
The Adirondacks.
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