Maggie Thom's Blog - Posts Tagged "life-of-another"

When I wrote Captured Lies five years ago there was a lot going on in my life. And most of it at the time, was not good. I was calling it my year from hell, everything that could go wrong, did go wrong. However I can honestly say it is also one of the most amazing years of my life. It is the year that I let go of a lot of limiting beliefs about myself and started the trek to step into my dream. It was by far the most life changing and challenging year of my life.

I don't know if because I changed so much that year that I re-wrote Captured Lies but I can tell you, the story I first wrote is not the story that I ended up with. When I started writing it, I had called it Life of Another and then switched it to Another's Life. Kind of bland but I think it fit the romance that it was originally.

Up to that point I had some notion that if I was going to make it as a writer I had to write romance first. After all, authors that I had really enjoyed did that - Sandra Brown, Nora Roberts, etc. Now here's a little secret, I wrote about eight romance novels before Captured Lies. But I never did anything with them. Well not totally true, I did send out a few queries and entered one in a contest. No response from the queries but I got some really good feedback from the contest. It was encouraging so I kept writing and doing nothing with my manuscripts. At least until Captured Lies. It wouldn't leave me alone. But I couldn't do anything with it as it was because I felt like something was missing from it.

So I started adding in more elements. I realized that the story was really Bailey's. Bailey's search for answers as to who she was. To finding out how her life could be a lie...
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