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I knew from the time I was pretty young that I loved to write.  I enjoyed writing stories and I loved to read.  As I grew up, my love of both grew.  Then, as a parent, I hoped that my love of these things would possibly pass on to my kids.  As a mom of two boys, I wasn't so sure that would happen. But lo and behold, it did. For at least one of them. I have shared in the past that I found my inspiration to take the step into self-publishing thanks to my students.  You see, I homeschooled my older son for ten years and I taught creative writing to homeschoolers for most of that time.  Those amazing kids were self-publishing and putting their work out there so I thought it was time I did too. But I digress... After I released my first book - JORDAN'S RETURN - my son decided to put his love of writing to work and wrote a book of his own.  He never published it, but the accomplishment he felt in having done it stayed with him.  Now, some six...

Back in 2011, I took my first step into the world of indie publishing with JORDAN'S RETURN.  To be honest, I had gotten many, many, MANY rejections on it from publishers and agents and that's what prompted me to give self publishing a try.  So I did the research and learned how to format and put it out there for the world to read. Or 30 people - which was how many copies it sold that first year.  I think 27 of them were friends and family. As my library of work grew, readers went back and found Jordan and seemed to fall in love with the story the way I had.  It's funny because this book was the book of my heart.  For some reason, it didn't seem to fit in anywhere when I was submitting it to publishers.  I couldn't understand why.  It's contemporary, it's romance, it's women's fiction...in my eyes, it had everything!   I felt so strongly about it - about seeing it in print and sharing it with readers - that it was the push I needed to do it on ...