Wander over to the Snarkology blog today for an inspiring post from Barbara Edwards.
She started writing in adulthood, and wrote because of her love for words and despite some scathing comments from a creative writing teacher. She found her way into publishing when she didn’t accept a major romance publisher’s mandate to change the core plot point of her book. The publisher said ‘no change, no deal; our readers can’t handle that’. The result: no deal.
Later, when Barbara shared that rejection story with an online writing group, the novel came to the attention of a more flexible publisher. Barbara’s first published novel went on to good sales and strong reviews, and broke new ground in the romance genre.
Her persistence helped. She shares this great advice for writers seeking publication:
“The lesson I learned was to treat writing as a regular day job. Write daily, consistently. It’s hard work but worth every minute.”