There were not a lot of creative writing majors available in the 70's, so I tried being a journalism major.  That didn't work.  I went from job to job for a while, payng bills and having a family, not really thinking too much about what I wanted to be when I grew up.  But when my second daughter was heading to kindergarten, I began thinking about returning to work, and what kind of work that would be.  One morning, while listening to WOR talk radio, I heard a woman say if you wanted to know what work you would enjoy, think about what you were playing at when you were ten, because whatever it was, you probably loved it.  That week I started writing again.

My first attempt got me forty-seven rejection letters from some of the best agents in the business.  My second manuscript got me an agent.  The third book, Better Off Without Him, gave me a valuable lesson - writing a good book isn't enough.  It also has to be a book that falls easily into a specific catagory so that the marketing boys don't have to work too hard. After the most apologetic rejection letters I'd ever read from editors who loved the book but couldn't figure out how to sell it, I decided to publish it myself as an ebook.  My idea here is simple.  If a book is well written and enjoyable to read, people will find it.