Is GAME ON, fact or fiction?

After reading GAME ON, a lot of you have been asking me if I'm really Hailey in real life, and I hate to break it to you but the answer is no. I don't know any Major League Baseball players. I'm not a sister, wife, girlfriend—or an ex—of any player, past or present. I'm simply a writer with a vivid imagination for creating fictional stories that seem believable and relatable.

I take it as a huge compliment that readers think that my writing is realistic enough to make that leap. Yeah, Hailey's a character who writes sports romance novels, but she's not me. I don't have a Jilly in my life. Although I wish I did—LOL! My aim with Hailey was to show some of the behind the scenes stuff that writers go through that readers might not know about.

Do authors frequently check their Amazon sales rankings? Yes. Do novelists hate to let go of a manuscript, never feeling like it's truly finished? Yes. Do writers write anywhere and everywhere whenever inspiration strikes? Absolutely.

I love how one of my beta readers, Ambur Hostyn from the blog, Burning Impossibly Bright, put it. She said that reading GAME ON was like watching the movie INCEPTION, but instead of a dream within a dream, it was a sports romance written inside a sports romance. And for me that was the coolest way of describing of what I was trying to do.

It's a perfect summation of GAME ON's dedication: "This one's for those who read and write instead of play the game."