Focus

Focus 

Once I retired at age 65 from my salaried position as a major gifts officer for an independent day school, I got to focus on my passion: writing historical fiction. I’d started writing my first historical novel at the age of 29 and after years of rejections by editors and rewriting the manuscript to respond to their feedback, I finally stuck it in a drawer. At last, at age 65, I embarked on my new career as an author of historical novels. The first one was published two years after I r...