I have been writing stories for as long as I can remember. I was scribbling with crayons and then reading my stories to my daddy before I could read or write. I’ve always had notebooks with ideas and stories in them and files on my computer with half starts to novels, but in 2013 that changed. I saw that a childhood friend had self-published a novel on Amazon. I reached out to her to congratulate her and as we chatted I realized that I could do it too!

I dusted off a file named ‘Unnamed Novel’ and started working on it again. It became Allie’s Choice and I self-published it in November of that year. My family and friends bought it and read it, then nothing. But the writer in me had been reactivated.

I was doing a ‘practice’ scene that turned into The End and it was published in April of the next year. My family and friends all bought it and so did several other people. Everyone wanted more, so I wrote After the End and made a huge mistake. I was ready to move on to other stories and characters, so I killed one of the main characters so that I could be done with that series. Dumb move.

The Storm came next and to me, it’s the best thing I have ever written, but it didn’t sell very well. Then life changed in some big ways and I didn’t write much until last year. I had an hour commute each way and I started thinking about what it would be like if I had to walk home. That became The Long Walk Home. That book somehow took off and I went from making $10 a month from my writing to paying my mortgage with my writing. I am now working on the fourth book in that series.

If your dream is to publish the stories in your head or the ones in notebooks or files on your computer, I want to help you do that. I can help you avoid all the mistakes I made and help you navigate the ones that you will make in your writing journey. It’s never too late!

Reach out to me at salbrightwrites@gmail.com to learn more.