After retiring from the NYPD, Frances enjoyed an uncomplicated day-to-day family life —for about a year. Then the hum-drums set in!
While her daughter was in kindergarten, Frances sat at her kitchen table and manipulated Word into her first novel. Then she sent query letters and eagerly awaited a nurturing agent to help her turn that Word document into a readable book.
She waited and waited—until all fifteen rejection cards were politely returned. Not one to give up, she learned to self-edit by reading everything she could on the craft. After all that learnin’ and fixin’, Frances still refused to subject kind readers to the full length version of her first attempt at storytelling, so she split The Impoverished into two novellas—The Day of Terror and The Subway Plot.
Once she discovered Savvy Author’s virtual classrooms and amazing network of writers, she became a workshop junkie in the hopes of becoming a better storyteller.
And boy is she glad she started the journey! It lead her to her current project, The Council House. She has doggedly studied the writer’s craft to make this novel interesting, readable and enlightening. Her NYPD experience in the Intelligence and Counter Terrorism Divisions, and more importantly, the time away from the trees, helped her see the forest. She is driven to share the forest with her readers.
And if a forest view is not enough—the rabbit hole awaits!