The First Day

Here I am blogging. I am told that a blog is a good way to get recognized, and if I want to sell books, I need to be recognized. I am not sure how helpful this will be, but here I am. What do I hope to accomplish with this blog? Well, I guess I hope that I can let you into my life for a little while, and in so doing maybe you will want to enter the worlds I have created. A little background?! My first book "The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory" was published about a year ago. It is a story about a young woman, Susan Watson, caught in the middle of one of history's most tragic events while trying to live and love. To start out, I would like everyone to know that this is not a book about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. It is about an account of a young couple. I guess I should have named it something different. I just recently had a writer write me, telling me that he felt my character, Emily, was unbelievable. He read a few pages off of my site and felt it did not paint the right picture of the time. Luckily, that day, I saw a new review on Amazon that made me feel much better. You have to learn to take the criticism with the love or you will never make it in writing. So many want to tell you how to write, what is the right way, but you have to do it your way. It's your story, tell it the way you see it. My second book is in the process of finding the right publisher. I will keep you up-to-date on that as well as let you in on my writing process as I write my third book. I will not tell you the name of this book, nor tell you too many details, but I will let you in on what is going through my mind as I create these characters. I must go now. I hope you stay tuned as I move forward and write my third book.