How I started Writing Fiction

I get asked all the time how long I’ve been writing stories. My earliest memory is 2nd grade and throughout grade school and junior high I wrote stuff all the time. Then my priorities shifted and over the next many years I didn’t write, I just thought about it all the time. It never stopped being a dream to support myself as an author I just never felt the time was right to pursue it. Then one day in my 30’s I realized that much like trying to decide the right time to have a baby there was never going to be the “right” time, and I wasn’t getting any younger, so shouldn’t let anything stop me from pursuing my dreams.

It took me 2 years writing off and on to write my first book, Stilettos & Scoundrels, all the way to the end. It was published in 2009 and has gone through several major (and much needed) revisions since then. By the time I got to the 4th or 5th book in the series I was a much better writer, practice makes perfect, and I had to improve the first ones. Editing and revising can be a never ending process. Mainly, because nothing is perfect.

I now have 15 fiction books published, not counting the boxed sets. It was 17 until I took 2 down (in the Athena Parks series) last year to revise and republish this year.

My Presley Thurman series, my first, is up to 11 books out with 2 more on the way this year.

I look back sometimes and wish I hadn’t waited so long to pursue my dream. I’m living it now and I could have been living it so much sooner had I not put it off. Maybe. I do believe that timing is everything and who knows what might have happened. All I know now is that I’m living the dream. It’s hard work but so worth it.

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