Author RJ Keller, recently diagnosed with breast cancer, answers personal “everything you [I] always wanted to know” questions about cancer
RJ Keller and I have known each other virtually for over a decade. Sometime around 2008–’09, she, authors Henry Baum, Eddie Wright, and I created an indie author collective called Backword Books (yes, that’s spelled correctly) whose goal was to deliver and market quality fiction written by those in the collective.
Waiting for Spring was RJ Keller’s gritty, beautiful novel, initially self-published but later acquired by Lake Union Publishing.
We Backword Booksers were going to do all of the promotion and marketing on our own, with and for each other.
But you know how writers can be — high on creativity, short on businessy follow-through (as a group, at least…so many different writing schedules).
Some fizzled-out months later, in the interest of marketing our work but also because FUN, RJ Keller (may I just call her “Kel” from now on? her real name is Kelly Hewins) and I started making videos that poke fun at writers the way only writers can — or should. We called our production company Paper Rats, and our series was Inside the Writers’ Studio. If you love writing, you’ll love the series. Kel did all the editing, and she’s brilliant at it.
