I signed my first book contract in August 2012. This was a HUGE deal for me, as I had almost given up on publishing and just continued writing for myself. Without my husband’s push, I never would have made it. Since then, I published six other books, all in mainstream romance category, and then moved into Christian Romance, published one book with Anaiah Press and now almost finished with the second in my Hill Country series.

As I remember back to my fir...