Why Publish?

My fiction writing career has been quite a roller coaster. I started out, as so many writers do, when I was twelve. An avid reader, I found myself with an overwhelming urge to create stories as well as read them. So, I went to work on the old manual typewriter my dad kept on his desk.

I never finished that manuscript.

The desire to create stories never went away, though. As I moved through life, my writing ebbed and flowed in significance. While my primary money-making occupation was so...