Fact and Fiction

As I’ve mentioned here and in my main blog, I went through a desert time in my walk with the Lord in the late 80’s/early…

In mid-1994, at the end of a period of negotiation that finally caused me to leave Publisher #1 and sign with Publisher #3, I decided…

In the fall of 1992, I was elected to serve a two year term as President of Romance Writers of America®, the largest genre writers…

As mentioned, I had now discovered what “real” editing entails. I’d survived my first lengthy revision letter (substantive edits) and line edits and copy edits…

The night before I flew to San Francisco for the RWA conference, I had a dream about a particular author — a popular, rising star…

So where were we? Ah, yes. I was now a full-time writer. I had one year to prove I could support myself on advances and…

From the time I began writing my first novel, I harbored the hope that I would one day be able to write full time. Like…

From the time my first agent closed her agency and I was once again on my own, I’d made it a point to discover more…

It was frightening to be asked to revise that first time. It felt a lot like … rejection! Ah, dear reader, perhaps you thought that,…

Okay, where were we? Oh, yes. 1986. I’d attended my first big writers’ conference, and I now had a support group of romance writers who…

Let’s fly through a few years. I sold my third novel when it was approximately half written. I sold my fourth book (a sequel to…

From the very beginning of my writing career — before it was a career — I’ve been an SOTP writer (that’s seat-of-the-pants for you non-writers…

A computer salesman read the article about me in the local paper, the one with the photograph of me in front of my typewriter, and…

Yeah, by now some of you are thinking I was living the fairy tale. Right? And in some ways, I suppose I was. I did…

With a few short strokes of the pen, I agreed to sell On Wings of a Song to Leisure Books. And via phone call, I…

Back to the main story… So there I was with a bankrupt publisher, unemployed, and forced to move because my rental home had been sold…

I mentioned in an earlier post that I hadn’t heard the word “genre” before and that I didn’t really know what genre my novel fell…

Twenty-one submissions went out to New York publishers in January. I know now that a few of them would never have wanted my type of…