Aspiring Writer to Published Author by Misa Buckley
I think most aspiring writers are like I was. Writing is such a slow, gradual process that I imagined that the change would be as well. Um, wrong! To go from idly puttering away on numerous WIPs to having an acceptance with deadlines is a shock. It's like standing off-stage, rehearsing your lines and then suddenly being shoved into the limelight. It's thrilling, but it's also nerve-wracking.
It's just six months since I decided to stop being a hobbyist writer and aim for publication. Four months since I managed to finish my very first WIP. Three months since that WIP was accepted by Decadent Publishing. I'm still waiting to wake up from a very incredible dream.
Some other writers have asked me how. I don't have an answer, because I honestly don't know. I've been writing since November 2007, but IRONHAVEN was the first (and only!) story that I completed. Some things - like the timely interview that sparked my determination and finding the submission call - were pure luck. Others - like the awesome Lori Witt who pushed me to completion and then edited the first draft - were gifts, and I sincerely thank those who helped me.
That includes Johanna and the #amwriting bunch. You guys are there for me when no one else is. There's always someone with an answer to my (sometimes very odd) questions. Writing a book can be very lonely, but no book ever comes stumbling into the spotlight without a chorus. So know that when you answer that weird question about socks in the eighteenth century that you're pushing another book. And that you're awesome for doing so.
Earth is dying, and Lucian Hoyt is going to die with it thanks to his parents cancelling his pass aboard the last shuttle off the planet. There is hope, though – a brilliant inventor has come up with a plan to build a ship to evacuate those who’ve been left behind.
That inventor turns out to be Genevieve Scott, Lucian’s bitter ex-fiancée. If they’re going to work together to get off this planet, they need to put their past aside, but even melting the ice between them can’t erase all the scars.
Available from Decadent Publishing
It's just six months since I decided to stop being a hobbyist writer and aim for publication. Four months since I managed to finish my very first WIP. Three months since that WIP was accepted by Decadent Publishing. I'm still waiting to wake up from a very incredible dream.
Some other writers have asked me how. I don't have an answer, because I honestly don't know. I've been writing since November 2007, but IRONHAVEN was the first (and only!) story that I completed. Some things - like the timely interview that sparked my determination and finding the submission call - were pure luck. Others - like the awesome Lori Witt who pushed me to completion and then edited the first draft - were gifts, and I sincerely thank those who helped me.
That includes Johanna and the #amwriting bunch. You guys are there for me when no one else is. There's always someone with an answer to my (sometimes very odd) questions. Writing a book can be very lonely, but no book ever comes stumbling into the spotlight without a chorus. So know that when you answer that weird question about socks in the eighteenth century that you're pushing another book. And that you're awesome for doing so.
IRONHAVEN
Earth is dying, and Lucian Hoyt is going to die with it thanks to his parents cancelling his pass aboard the last shuttle off the planet. There is hope, though – a brilliant inventor has come up with a plan to build a ship to evacuate those who’ve been left behind.
That inventor turns out to be Genevieve Scott, Lucian’s bitter ex-fiancée. If they’re going to work together to get off this planet, they need to put their past aside, but even melting the ice between them can’t erase all the scars.
Available from Decadent Publishing
