When Your First Book Overshadows Your Second

This has been frustrating me from the start. Ever since my novel has been recently released. My first book has been overshadowing it in sales and reads. I wrote my first book "Corridors of My Mind," not because I like writing poetry, but because it was either get what I was feeling out or take my own life. Once I released the book, I had released those feelings and experiences for those moments in time, too.

Because of this I won't be writing another poetry book, because I don't have another one in me, which I'm glad about. Poetry has always been a catharsis. I am not a poet and don't address myself as one.

When I'm asked in interviews what genres I like to write poetry isn't one of them. Poetry is just therapy for me and always has been, nothing more. I'd rather read and discuss other authors poetry than my own.

I started out writing short stories, novels, first. Poetry was something down the line, but for therapeutic reasons only. I'm a multifaceted being and parts of me are in all my works, including my novels. In my latest novel, "Weeping Well," I write from my own real experiences and feelings and the depth is very personal. Even one of my characters is named after a real person that was close to me even events in the book actually happened to me and just mixed it with some brilliant fiction. What events actually happened to me from my novel? Feel free to ask.

Poetry is not the only place I can express myself. I can only hope there are open minds out there who will give "Weeping Well," a chance and realize that I'm much more than just "Corridors of My Mind."