Ruby Release – I Wish

“Don’t ever give up,” said the late Jimmy Valvano (former basketball coach for NC State University) a few short weeks before cancer claimed him.

That quote became the motto for me and I Wish. This is the manuscript that finaled in the Golden Heart in 2009. Without I Wish, I would’ve never met my Ruby Sisters or my agent. Yet it was such a hugely tough sell that I nearly quit writing over this book.

Does that sound familiar? Have you ever written a book that you absolutely love and believe in–th...