A Little Backstory On My Heroic Writing Journey

You'd think someone who writes books could come up with better blog titles, but apparently not. Pretty sure this one is 100% cliche, totally unlike my upcoming novel. But let's backtrack. I wrote my first middle grade book in 2013. A naive burst of creativity, inspired by the stories I told my kids at bedtime. Like many aspiring authors, I'd written truly awful tales as a preteen and later burned them, but this was my first time seriously trying to write fiction. It was awkward. I tried not...