The Launch of The Pantheon Collective (TPC)

Well, I’ve certainly started 2010 off with a bang. On Monday, my business partners and I went LIVE with a venture we’ve been plotting, planning, and nurturing for the past three months — the launch of our publishing company The Pantheon Collective.

As most of you know, I’ve been trying for years to get my book published. But the reality is, taking the traditional route takes a looong time. Too long. It also requires a lot of compromise, and sometimes you have to surrender complete creative control. At the end of the day, I always knew it would be difficult giving up ownership of my creation. After all, my novels are like children. After giving them life, how could I just turn them over to some stranger, and trust they’d be raised right?

To be honest, I’d dreamed of starting my own publishing company from day one. I’m a natural-born control freak, and was born to be the boss. James actually calls me Boss Lady, lol. I’m much more comfortable at the top of the food chain. But when I imagined doing this, I always figured I’d be doing it solo. The quintessential independent woman, that’s just my way. The surprising thing for me is not that I did it, but that I’ve stumbled into the most synergistic of partnerships to make it all happen.

My partners in The Pantheon Collective are James Lewis and Omar Luqmaan-Harris, kindred souls, and quite frankly, two of my favorite people on the planet. Because of the mutual admiration society we’ve got going on, everything we doing takes on a whole other dimension of enjoyment… They always say that things are better when you get to share them with someone. This is no different. TPC is the most special of any endeavor I’ve undertaken, and I feel blessed to have these boys to roll down the road with.

Anyhoo, we launched on Monday, February 8th. Our goal is to publish James’ book SELLOUT in July 2010, and my debut novel, WHEN LOVE ISN’T ENOUGH in the fall. We’re aiming to drop a book every three months, and between the three of us, we’ve got six novels ready to go. That should get us well into 2011. From there, who knows? Sky’s the limit, really.

So that’s the latest update on my writing life. We’re technically still in the process of starting our company, and have decided to blog about the whole ad(venture) on theTPC website, in real time. If you have a few spare moments in your day, check us out