Good for you on republishing those books, Evelyn! Every author I've met who does that finds it to be SO rewarding.

It's terribly hard to have those who have loved and inspired you be unable to read your books. I'm sorry you had that experience Kathryn. You just have to know that they're reading over your shoulders now that they're gone.

denise

I adore learning new craft, but that's me. The patience becomes necessary when trying to apply that knowledge to your own writing! Critiquing tons of manuscripts for friends helps.

Good for you, Evelyn! Getting an agent isn't always easy, that's for sure. But whether publishing traditionally or by becoming a publisher as well as an author, your decision to try to reach a wife readership must be fed by a steady diet of craft and industry knowledge.

Right? Three months after I told my healthy parents I was writing a novel they wanted to know when they could buy it in the stores, lol! Over the next ten years, my dad died and my mom was in advanced dementia, unable to recall what I was doing. Neither of my parents ever read one of my novels. So you can believe me when I say if I could have hurried the process, I would have! (Results may vary, of course, pending variables like luck, genre, and natural storytelling ability.)