Why this page exists

So about 4 years ago I published my first book.  I didn't really plan on "becoming an author," it just sort of happened.  Four years before that, my husband left me, and someone suggested that I keep a diary.  At the same time, I had a lot of relatives who lived far away and I was spending almost every day on the phone, telling my aunt in NM that he hadn't talked to the kids in months, or my sister in PA that I was taking him to court for overdue child support.  Then I would call my aunt back to talk to her some more.  I would say, "did I remember to tell you..." and I got the feeling that I was becoming a nuisance.  Nobody came right out and said it, but I could tell.  It became much easier to just make my diary a blog.  Then, I still had the benefit of writing everything down.  I still had the benefit of keeping friends and family informed.  I changed the names of everyone involved, except for the other woman.  She gets nothing from me.

So everyone told me that the writing was good.  Really good.  Like, "you should get this published" good.  Well, I didn't see it.  I self-published and made a whole $75 off that first book.  *shrug*  Better than zero.

But I didn't want to stop writing.  So I began a science fiction novel.  I have *ahem*, um... let's call it "bad luck with laptops."  It could be shoddy decision making, but we're calling it bad luck, okay?  So I didn't want to save my novel to a laptop that might not work in another week.  I also didn't want to put it on a flash drive that I might lose.  So, I opened a new blog, here, only instead of publishing blog posts I was publishing chapters.  At first, I began writing, publishing a chapter at a time.  But about three chapters in, I decided to pursue a different story and took all of those chapters down and just kept each chapter as a "draft".  That way, I could access my book from any computer with a modem, and even work from my cell while I waited in the doctor's office.

Now, I've finished that novel.  I'm trying to publish it traditionally, and one of the tidbits of advice that I got is, begin writing your second book as soon as you've finished the first.  So if you're here, this is it.  This single post is probably all you'll get to read, because everything in books 1 and 2 are "saved as draft."

P.S. If you really want to read about my divorce, you can buy the self-published paperback or e-book at this website