I read a lot as a kid. I wrote a lot as a kid, but it sucked and I didn’t really care. My journey has been a progression of fits and starts where I got more and more serious, backed off, went back to my daily life, then returned to the words and dream, then got back out again. I fantasized about one day writing the books that I liked to read, but I always had reasons why I couldn’t do it seriously.
In 2007, as part of National Novel Writing Month I completed a draft of my first novel. It was so long (90,000 words, their minimum for completion was 50,000) and so bad (the first hundred pages contained only two real scenes) but I was ecstatic. I had finished something!
I continued to haunt a few local writing groups, and I always participated in National Novel Writing Month, but I wasn’t writing daily or looking into publishing options. In 2009 my sense of urgency changed by watching someone else achieve what I kept thinking I was not capable of. Nothing all that spectacular happened, I believe I just got tired of living in the dreamland of being a writer and had to just start doing it.
In September of 2009 a casual acquaintance who had been pregnant at the same time I was released her memoir and came to talk to my book group about it. At the time that she finished the book, she was nursing a newborn and told stories about how she finished by typing with one hand. I loved her enthusiasm, and envied her ability to plow through and finish in the wake of the same excuses I was using.
I attended my first writing conference in San Francisco in February of 2010 and that was where I felt like I found my place. I began interning with a local literary agent, hired a couple of professional editors, took classes and made improving myself as a writer and learning about the publishing industry my main pursuit.
I met Catherine Sears, the co-founder of Booktrope at the Whidbey Island Writer’s Conference in 2011. Her interest in the book was an enormous validation and after talking to her about what Booktrope was doing I was no longer interested in pitching traditional publishers. I knew my book had found a home with people who cared about what I had to say, they believed that there was a market for my particular brand of weirdness and they were willing to put their funding and expertise behind that belief. I have a video of her telling this story as part of my book launch posted on my website at mywildskies.com.
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Genre - Literary Erotica
Rating – X
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