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David Lyons is a “case” that I’ve been studying for years.  He’s a member of the Puerto Vallarta Writers Group, which I attend weekly whenever I’m at my second home there.  And I’ve watched David travel from his struggles with his first novel through to publication of his third title, along with his fascination with the emerging opportunities with self-publication.  He’s recently been writing columns for the Banderas News, sharing what he’s learned along the way — and that’s a lot, I might add.  And he’s recently written about what he’s learned about e-books, a column that is the best summary of what the e-book offers to writers that I’ve yet come across.

Let me tell you a little bit more about David’s journey to authorship.  He arrived in mid-life in Puerto Vallarta, retiring there after a successful career as an attorney.  He had a book in him, he thought, and he was looking for a place condusive to writing.  He found it in Vallarta, and he’s never left [except to market his books here and there].

He shared his early chapters with me