When I decided to try my hand at fiction, I was nervous. My background is in nonfiction writing, after all. I’d nearly forgotten that I had once had aspirations to right fiction. In fact, in college, I wrote a fantasy novel. It was terrible. It’s handwritten, and the pages are in a box in my basement, never to see the light of day!
Anyway, after I wrote a few narrative nonfiction books about pet care, I started to get the fiction itch. But, after my terrible fantasy book, I felt like a total impostor thinking about writing fiction. Still, I had an idea for a paranormal cozy mystery! It would be a veterinarian (like me), who was a witch that could talk to and understand animals (not like me, but it seemed way cool). I plotted out the first three books and got to work writing.
I finished book one, Witch Doggone Killer?, and it was okay. But it wasn’t as good as I wanted it to be. So, I put it in a drawer and wrote other books. Actually, I wrote fifteen other cozy mysteries (and four romances). But that story kept calling to me.
I’m ready to write it now. I feel like I can do it justice, and I’m so excited to share it with you! I have a few other books to finish up before I can get to it, but it’s coming at ya in May. You can pre-order it if you want to get it the instant it publishes: Witch Doggone Killer?
(Don’t you just LOVE the cover by the amazing Mariah Sinclair?)
Anyway, that’s my story about moving to fiction from non-fiction. I absolutely adore doing it, and I’m getting better all the time. I absolutely can’t wait to pull that first cozy out of the drawer and apply what I’ve learned, so it can finally see the light of day.
Thanks for reading, friends. I couldn’t be an author without you!
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