Flat Out Love was definitely a turning point for me. Jessica Park has now been embraced by both worlds and continues to be an inspiration to me and many others. It just might mean you weren’t waiting around for the publishing world to discover you. Then I read and loved Flat Out Love by Jessica Park, a self-published book, and I realized that being a self-published author didn’t have to mean you weren’t “as good” as the traditionally published authors. And I didn’t want to wear that label if that label symbolized an inferior quality of book. There are a lot of really awful books in the self-pub world. Tell us about a book that changed your life. Fifteen months later my fourth novel, A Different Blue, hit the NY Times Bestsellers list, and I’m just trying to process it all. I wrote another novel, Slow Dance in Purgatory, and self-published both of them on Amazon. Several years later, out of work with a brand new baby (child number four) and mounting medical bills, I knew I had to do something different. I didn’t know how to get something published, and I was a busy mom teaching school, so I set it aside.
I’ve always been a writer, and I wrote my first novel, Running Barefoot, simply because I wanted to prove to myself I could do it. (How did you decide to get started? Did you always know or was there a specific moment when you knew?) Tell us about your journey to becoming a writer. Bottom line? I got to sing for a legend, and I made it into the choir. They left and came back a few minutes later and said she would let me sing for her. I told them I really wanted to audition for Ms. Eventually, someone came out and asked me who I was and if they could help me. So I got on the microphone and started singing. The microphone was still on in the main room where the auditions had occurred. When I got there, the audition was over, but I could hear a group of people behind a closed door. I was auditioning to be in a choir directed by Gladys Knight.
Describe the most daring, adventurous or inspiring thing you ever did.
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