The early 2000’s were not kind to my writing career. In 1998, I quit my job to become a freelance copywriter. Part of the reason why I wanted to start my writing business is because I thought I would have more time to work on my novels. I was wrong. Within the first five years […]
Writing Journey
The Writing Journey: How I Almost Let a Bad Review Derail My Career
In November 2015, I published my first novel, “The Stolen Twin.” And in launching that book, I did pretty much everything completely wrong. I’ll detail all my book marketing mistakes in another post, but today, I want to share how I very nearly pulled the plug on my fiction writing career, right at the cusp […]
The Writing Journey: How the Eclipse Changed My Writing Life
2017 will forever be remembered as the year I became a writer. That likely sounds strange to you. After all, I’m a professional copywriter. I’ve been earning a living as a writer since 1998 when I started my freelance copy business. I began the transformation into owner of a copywriting and marketing company in 2004. […]
The Writing Journey: Stepping into My Fiction Author Identity
There’s a strange phenomenon I occasionally witness at my copywriting and marketing company. Clients will hire us for copy and marketing support, pay in full, and then either disappear or not actually use what they paid for. When I would reach out to ask them why, I would typically hear some variation of how yes, […]
“Mirror Image” Launches Tomorrow! (Plus The Story Behind The Story)
Lots of excitement here in PW land as we’re getting ready for the big launch of “Mirror Image.” You can grab your copy right here. And, just like “The Stolen Twin,” this novel has quite a backstory too. It all started when I was a teenager and on a family vacation in New Hampshire. While […]
The Story Behind “The Stolen Twin”
I actually wrote “The Stolen Twin” over 10 years ago. And then I stuffed in a desk drawer (well, to be completely honest, I actually stuffed it into a file on my computer, but that doesn’t have the same impact as stuffing it in a desk drawer) and left it there for over 10 years. […]