(I guess that makes me a bit of a control freak. In the end, I knew that I was going to self-publish some of my works, as there are some stories I want to tell that I need complete control over. I don’t think my craft has gotten good enough to tell it, but when I do finally write it, I want to do so traditionally because I want to see it on the shelf of a Barnes and Noble or local library and know that it got there on its own and I didn’t donate it. I have one story that’s been in my mind for thirty-plus years. I’ve submitted one book to agents and was turned down across the board (though my dream agent asked for 50 pages, so that was a breathless six weeks!). Did you choose to self-publish from the start, or did you seek traditional publishing first? My mind is always going, “What would happen if…?” and many a tale has been born that way. This idea meets that idea in my head, and a new idea is born. It’s never too late!Ī lot of the stories I come up with are inspired by meldings of things. I watched videos, read blogs, attended seminars and conferences, and slowly my work is getting better and better. I finished that novel (which isn’t good enough to be published, but what the heck, it was done) and started actually taking the craft seriously for the first time in my life. At that moment I looked at the past fifteen years and realized that if I didn’t start now, I’d never do it. And at forty-plus years old, I sat there at a restaurant writing the first words of a novel on a laptop I was using for my work. One line became two, and then they became a paragraph. I was on the road one day, coming back from auction and stopping to get a bite to eat when the first line of a novel hit me. I got caught up in the business I used to run (one that I had started specifically to give me time to write but had taken over my life), and my writing went by the wayside. I went well over a decade (almost two) without putting a single word to page. But I do remember when I started writing again. Oh boy, I can’t even remember when I started writing. When did you start writing, and what inspires you to write the stories you do?
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