Believing the impossible (or, what happens when you make the USA Today bestseller list)

“Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

– The White Queen, Through the Looking Glass

When I started writing Playing the Game (Neighborly Affection #1) on April 1, 2012, I thought the date was a pretty good joke, because I was definitely fooling myself — it was impossible to believe I’d ever finish writing a novel.

When I sent the manuscript for Playing the Game to Lyrical Press in November 2012, I thought it was impossible that they’d pick my book out of the...