I am so excited, I have finally figured out how to succeed in a writing career. As a teenager, i published my first book, When One Door Closes. It was a finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition. Out of 10,000 entries, it was one of the remaining 250 in the contest. Because of that Amazon paid Createspace to publish it for me. Back then I was just super excited. I had no idea what it took to succeed in a writing career.
However, my success with When One Door Closes spurred me to press forward and go to Elms College to get a degree in Professional Writing Studies.
The December before I graduated with my BA in writing I published my first personal essay, “One Girl’s Story of Mistreatment and the Illness that Brought Her There,” in Luna Luna Literary Magazine. Below is the picture Luna Lune paired with my article.
After working on blogging for a while I published my second novel, Was I Ever Normal which now has eight 5-star reviews onmazon and multiple positive reviews all over the internet that I discovered I was starting a real writing career. Was I Ever Normal is sold on Amazon as a Kindle and paperback, like When One Door Closes, but it goes way beyond. It is also sold in all large chain bookstores across the US both in-store and online. When I realized it was being sold in hundreds of bookstores across the country and internationally I finally realized that I had discovered how to succeed in a writing career.
That’s not even where it ended though. My book was selected to be in The LA Times Festival of Books. That is the largest book festival in the US. The video below shows a clip of my book in The LA Times Festival of Books.
Changing Destiny’s Destiny
Now I am actively sending out query letters for my latest completed manuscript Changing Destiny’s Destiny. The summary of the plot is below.
Destiny is aware that she’s terminally ill and can’t eat by mouth. She knows she has a special surgically inserted IV line in her chest for IV nutrition, IV hydration, and IV medication, but when engulfed in The Bad Man’s World, reality melts into a mess of fog, shadows, and static. It’s more simple to follow The Bad Man’s commands, even when they drive her to self-destruct.
After multiple near-lethal overdoses that land Destiny on life support in the pediatric ICU for up to five days, Destiny’s parents are forced to admit their daughter to The Jackson Center for treatment. However, there is a glitch during her transfer to The Center from the hospital. Only Destiny’s earliest records arrive. These notes describe her as nothing more than a behavioral issue. The Jackson Center misdiagnoses her and creates a care plan that sends Destiny spiraling into the depths of psychosis and institutionalism.
After over a year of watching their daughter become more and more of a career mental patient, Destiny’s parents must make a decision. They can keep blindly following the professionals’ advice and allow Destiny to spend the rest of her brief lifespan in mental institutions. Or they can trust their instincts and find a way to control her symptoms and bring her home.