Hello again!  I know, I know … it has been a long time since I have posted anything or even paid any attention to this blog or my website.  Now that almost a year has passed since I told everyone that I was writing a new fiction book and that it was “coming soon”, I have decided to tell the truth about my writing journey. 

I was so proud and excited after I wrote and published my first book , a memoir.  Then after a few months of decent book sales online and trying really hard to get into book stores, I realized that I wasn’t excited anymore.  I was really sad.  I couldn’t get any bookstores to carry my memoir.  It was very frustrating and I was only further  depressed when my online sales came to a stand still.  I had many fellow independent authors give me encouragement and say that the only way to get books to sell was to be prolific…write more and establish a base of readers that would be willing to buy my other books.  I already had a fiction series plot in my head, but having an idea and actually writing a manuscript are two very different things.  I committed to the series and started to write.  At the same time, I tried a little advertising through Amazon and Facebook, but it really didn’t help much and I was making less sales than the cost of the advertising.  So I trudged through writing a bit more. 

Then the coronavirus hit.  You would think being under ‘stay at home’ orders would allow me plenty of time to write.  In my book advertising blurbs it says that I have always been a voracious reader and always wanted to write.  That is 100% true, however, I felt like saying “been there – done that”.  Now I didn’t want to write.  My husband attempted to encourage me and I felt guilty that I wasn’t even trying now. 

Then I had a wonderful family fun night with my hubby and the kids.  We laid out on our dock and were stargazing and trying to see the meteor shower.  My fiction book begins with a young girl looking up at the stars and wondering about how her life will turn out.  At that moment of amazement and laughter with my family, I wondered myself how my life (and my kids’ lives) would turn out after this coronavirus is a distant memory.  It inspired me to write this blog and continue writing that first fiction book.  Please hang in there with me and I hope and pray that anyone who reads this is safe and healthy.  We will get through this with patience and love.

Stay tuned and see what happens in this young woman’s life in my Dreamscapes series

Please check out my previous website blog posts and get your copy of my memoir Made Again to see how I began my journey to become an author