It was a dirty bathtub that did it for me...

[Judy]

I finally decided to write Caviar Dreams, in the middle of a futile attempt to clean the bathtub. As I was scrubbing away, knowing full well that the next time my husband took a shower the tub would get just as dirty, it hit me that I could be spending the same time writing the book I'd been intending to write for years. I fired up the computer, began the book and five years later, it was finished.

There's a book lurking inside of all of us, and you never know what's going to prod it out.

[Linda]

Inspiration comes at strange times...for me it is early in the morning before I get out of bed. That first moment when I open my eys and say, thank you for another day.

The seed for Belly of the Whale, due to be released on April 1, 2008 came from watching the baggers at the grocery store. Wondering about what was locked inside them that they could not express. Could anyone of them be a hero? From that grew the story of Hudson Catalina, a young woman with breast cancer.

Writing takes no linear path. Write the book, follow your dream.
Linda Merlino,author, Belly of the Whale