Sometimes, things happen in life that change the course of your life in ways that you could never imagine in your wildest dreams. In September of 2013, I wrote my first ever fan letter. I honestly didn’t expect much. I thought maybe I might get a polite auto reply. I never expected that Linda Kage herself would reply to me. What happened over the next few months was nothing short of a miracle in my life.
Anyone who has known me for any amount of time knows that I am a veracious reader. You simply can’t keep me in enough books. I read insanely fast, so I offered to beta read for Linda. I started giving her some story ideas and she was very gracious about receiving feedback from me and encouraged me to write my own stories.
This is not a career path that I had ever intended to take. In fact, I’m the most surprised of anyone that this is where I ended up. My seven grade teacher told me that I was the worst English student he had ever had in all of his years of teaching. I believed that for many over a decade and I waited until the last term of college to take any creative writing classes for fear that I would fail. However, Linda was a fearless cheerleader and very patient mentor. Without her guidance, I would’ve been terrified to try.
This coming week marks two years since I published Until the Stars Fall from the Sky and this month I will publish my eighth full-length novel and my second novella. I have a third novella being released this fall for an anti-bullying anthology.
It’s amazing to think that one letter could change in my life so significantly. Linda, I want to thank you for honoring my request and writing Priceless (The Forbidden Men Book 8) and making Sarah so absolutely unique and the perfect partner without minimizing her disability.