The Road to Publishing “The Fifteenth of June”

My wife went to a music festival in Orlando last fall. Alone with the dogs for the weekend, I decided to do something I had always wanted . . . to start writing a novel!

After roughly two months, I had finished the manuscript for The Fifteenth of June. I had initially titled it Stuck in One Spot, but my fabulous editor, Laura Mae Isaacman, persuaded me to rename it, and I’m glad she did.

Typing the first keystroke to self-publishing my debut novel took about four months in total, even though...