So here's our first book, subtitle: A bestseller's secrets to writing romance and navigating the path to success.
This book tells it like it is from the beginning, tearing away the illusion that a writer's life is all glamour and lying around scratching at scented paper with a pink feathery pen for maybe ten minutes a day, raking in the $$, and eating bonbons. Umm, no. Writers need a healthy lifestyle, for one thing, to keep the little gray cells popping -- meaning exercise and a balanced diet. And for another thing, you still gotta get the story from the paper into the computer, so you can send the finished book to your editor! Waste of time, writing on silly, expensive scented paper. And what if you're allergic?
We had the privilege of having a Zoom chat with Jennifer after we finished the book and discussed it for a while. What a fun, generous, encouraging person. She has paid her dues and she knows what she's talking about, in the struggle to create stories that work, and characters that live and breathe. She covers so many topics, so many aspects to being a writer, because yeah, there's a LOT of work involved. A lot of preparation and revising and angsting, and the work doesn't stop once you get an editor to agree to read your book -- selling to the publisher is just the start of the uphill battle to sell to the readers, and connect with them, make fans, and keep the creative fires stoked.
Everyone who wants to be a writer (and everyone who needs a boost and encouragement and some laughter and confirmation that yes, others face the same battles and while we might look crazy, we really aren't, this is perfectly normal for writers) should read this book. No matter what genre they write. Maybe on a regular basis, as a refresher.
Thanks, Jennifer!
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