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By Robin Kaye Last weekend I spoke at my local library about writing, my path to publication, my books, and the general state of publishing. I’m told I had a great crowd, which amazed me because there were only about 10 people in attendance, all of whom I knew. Still, it was a lot of fun to have the opportunity to speak to crowd who was actually interested in what I had to say. The best part was when my favorite librarian got off from work early to join the group. She regaled everyone with the story of how I would come into the library a few days a week, check out a gazillion books and tell her about the book I was writing. I remembered how much fun I had writing my first book. I had three small children at home and had moved across the country to a place where I had no friends or family. I came to writing through a back door, or so I like to think. I felt as if I needed to write. I needed the creative outlet that writing gave me. It never occurred to me that anyone else would be inter...

Since this is Marie’s release week, and there are all of these awesome “writer’s journey” vibes in the air, I thought I would share a little bit of my own journey with everyone today. Nope, I’m not actually going to talk about how Call of the Highland Moon came to be. I’ve been thinking more about the failure that led to my success, making it less of a failure and more of a stepping stone. Yes, I’m speaking of my first manuscript. The one buried along with all of its rejection letters in a big box at the back of my closet. This story is going to sound familiar to a lot of you, probably. When I finally decided to take the plunge and try to get published, I wanted very badly to have a completed, utterly fabulous manuscript in hand to get started on my inevitable conquering of the literary world. I mean, obviously since I had come to this momentous decision, the rest of the world would get right on board the Kendra train and anoint me the next Sherrilyn Kenyon, right? Yeah, yeah, i...