So I graduated from Frank Cody high school in Detroit Michigan in 1979 and then form Marygrove college in 1985. When I say I was done with school I was done. No more teachers, no more books, no more learning no more hooks. Ok, I know but it rhythms. I thought I had learned all I would ever need to make my dreams come true. How wrong I was. About 20 years ago I decided I wanted to write and because my Mom was a huge horror fan well of course that was what I was going to write. Some of you know some of my horror works and some of you find them quite frightening. Well that was the plan. Mom lived long enough to actually see my first one published. When she finished reading it her first words to me were, “Did I do this to you?” Next she said, “You tricked me, I didn’t figured out the end until the end.” Now that was the coup de grass, because outside of Stephen King, she always figured out the end.

What has all that have to do with The Power of Learning? Let me tell you after that book I thought I knew it all. I knew jack. There is so much more to writing a book then writing a book. If you want people to see, read and like them. I began to Learn that the business of writing and getting published was so much more harder than I could have ever thought. Do you know what query letter is? I didn’t either. Do you know what a proposal is? Some of you might have an idea, I did not. Did you know there were people among us called Beta readers? They are not from another planet they are readers who know the subject your writing about and they read you story and tell you if you’re on track or way out in left field.

I found a Facebook group, or maybe it was sent from above for me to find. Pitched 2 Publish and its founder Kathy Ver Eecke. A very knowledgeable lady with her finger on the pulse of the writing world. I joined for a small monthly fee. Money well spent as I have pitched a “REAL” agent through this group, have had face to face time with editors and other real people in the writing world. I learned how to write a query letter, and other things I did not know that I didn’t know. The Power of Learning can take you to places that you want to be. I want to be a successful horror writer and I am well on my way.

One side note, the publisher that published my first book went out of business shortly after I finished the sequel to that book, In The Footsteps of a Killer. The sequel I am having edited again for any missing horror elements is Through The Eyes of a Killer. I was angry at first because of all my time, blood, sweat and tears were gone. But maybe she was sent so that my Mom could see my book in complete finished, published book form, before she left this world for a better one. I’m still at it Mom and learning more each day. It won’t be long now.