B is for Books

I’ve written before about how I got started writing books on a ‘dare’ from my mother. I wish she had been around for the era of self-publishing on platforms like Amazon Kindle. I think she would have loved it. She was one of the first people I knew to have a personal computer in a home. She was a secretary and saw the advantages of the personal computer, but could not talk her boss into springing for one at his business. I think he was in the last years of running that business and just did not want to invest in anything further. His loss.

As for books. I’ve read my fair share over the years. My husband and I could outfit a fairly good library, heavy in history, crafts and fiction. Mostly science-fiction.

I got started on the writing one summer at my parents’ trailer and I had run out of sci-fi. I started reading her romance novels at a rate of about three a day. Potato chip reading I think is the term. By the handfuls.

And that of course leads one to thinking they can write as well as the authors they’ve been reading.

If you are interested in what I’ve written there is a link here to Amazon. It breaks down into about half of them are romances and half are science fiction.

Thanks.