Christie Speich

I create software for authors. Even authors who publish with a traditional publishing company need to manage many technical aspects of their career, including website development, and social media management. Indie authors must also deal with e-book formatting, retailer distribution, and much more.

Despite the added pressures, this is an amazing time to be an author. For the first time in the history of publishing, every writer has the opportunity to support themselves with a career as an author.

My mission is to help authors by making their technical tasks easier, allowing more time for what they do best: writing.

In my high school yearbook, I said I wanted to be an author. Yet, I went to college for Computer Science and after that began a career in Information Technology. I loved computer programming, but I wasn’t happy, so when our first child was born, I became a stay-at-home mom.

Though programming took a backseat to the demands of motherhood, the lure of writing fiction pulled at me again within a few years. I dove into learning as much about writing as I could, as well as self-publishing. I published a few stories under a pen name.

I fell totally in love with self-publishing. As someone who likes to DIY-it when possible, the fact that anyone can write a book, upload it for sale, and find a reader-base without the gatekeepers known as agents and publishers appeals to me on so many levels.

Still, there was something missing. And then it hit me: the marriage of my two passions.

Combining my passion for self-publishing and my love of programming and my drive to create things, I knew I needed to create tools to help authors.

I discovered first-hand how time consuming even the simplest of tasks could be when I sat down to add my second book to my website. A computer geek through-and-through, I set out to learn how to create WordPress plugins so I could make updating my own website easier. That plugin eventually grew into Mooberry Book Manager, which launched in 2015.

Someday I’d love to return to writing fiction. But as with all things in life, there must be balance. In addition to being a programmer and a writer, I’m also a wife of one, a mom of two, a pumpkin carver, and a seamstress of princess dresses for little girls, a quilter, a cross-stitcher, and a digi-scrapper. And my obsession with purple might border on unhealthy.