My ALLi author guest this episode is Dale Rogers, an indie author, illustrator, and former assistant professor who retired after eighteen years in higher education to focus on his creative work. Based in Nashville, Dale blends poetry, visual storytelling, design, and spirituality in what he calls Poetry Comics, a genre he’s developing as an indie publisher. We talk about his early creative life, his years as an educator, and what it means to start something new later in life.
Listen to the Inspirational Indie Author Interview: Dale Rogers
About the Host
Author Howard Lovy has been a journalist for 40 years, and now amplifies the voices of independent author-publishers and works with authors as a developmental editor. Find Howard at howardlovy.com, LinkedIn and X.
About the Guest
Dale R. Rogers is an independent author and artist whose work explores creator-owned storytelling shaped by a background in music theory and years spent teaching scripting and storyboarding, with a focus on how stories move from concept to experience. That process led him to develop Poetry Comics, a hybrid form where poetic language, visual composition, and pacing work together to share the narrative load. Publishing through his own imprint, eDrawingBoard LLC, Dale approaches self-publishing from the inside out, combining craft, technical literacy, and accessibility, while also serving as an Invited Expert with the W3C on digital publishing standards that affect indie creators. After an eighteen-year academic career, he is now doing for himself what he spent years teaching others. You can find Dale on his website, and learn more about his imprint at edrawingboard.com.
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