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About Me
Adapted from Daily Press article
By Leah Price
(Published in print: Sunday, April 20, 2014)
Nearly 400,000 novels were self-published in 2012, an increase of 59 percent from the year before, according to Bowker, the New Jersey-based agency that serves as the official U.S. distributor and tracker of ISBNs — international standard book number — in the United States.
Among these are two by Jeff Drifmeyer, of Williamsburg, Va. who spent the better part of a year shopping his first manuscript to traditional publishing houses and literary agents before deciding to self-publish. “At some point you just need to move (your) written work and get on with the next step”
Writing as Jake McKenzie, Drifmeyer has published two books, a thriller, ‘When Pigs Flu’ (2010) and a work of narrated nonfiction, ‘Civil War Comes Home’ (2012). For both he used the services of a for-fee publishing company. “Indie can work,” he wrote. “For minimal, up-front expenditures, my works are published and selling. I probably would not have that if still trying to ‘break in’ to traditional publishing with a major house.”
Available on amazon.com or http://jeffdrifmeyerauthor.wix.com/home or pick up a copy at the William and Mary College book store