Running Away

by Sheri McGuinn

Revised & uncensored.
The plan is in place. Before they realize she’s not coming back from her bogus weekend camping trip, Maggie will be in another state, in a new life.
When Peg realizes her daughter has run away, she knows she has to find Maggie – fast – or they may never see each other again. And Maggie’s already on the run from new dangers after she’s in the wrong place at the wrong time.
As each of them struggles with the issues around Maggie’s running away, the strength of the bond between them becomes evident. This is a story of the resilience of the characters and their relationship.

270 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2007

About the author

I grew up with a manual typewriter and Writer's Market on the dining room table - my mother wanted to be a writer. She never sold anything, but we developed serial bedtime stories together and she was a good first editor. In elementary school I helped write skits and plays – and entertained myself writing grammatically correct 100-word sentences. My tenth summer, I researched captive stories to write a novel like Lois Lenski's. Firsthand accounts and those written by interviewers were much better than anything I could write from research alone.

In my teens, I worked on school newspapers as journalist and editor. As an undergraduate, I accumulated more than twenty credits in writing and literature courses and over thirty in drama and film. In 1981 I wrote and pitched my first novel, then stuffed it in a drawer after two rejection slips. I focused on family for a couple decades. However, I was still using my writing skills for investigative court reports, individualized education plans, and a grant proposal landing $100,000 for my school.

Then an old friend hired me to help with a problematic script – I got my first paycheck for writing in 2005, an IMDb Credit as creative consultant, and motivation to write for a living. I wrote a novel and did a poor job pitching it. In 2007, I paid dearly for a predatory company’s "professional package" that did not live up to its name. I got the book away from them and have been truly self-publishing since 2012.

Meanwhile, I went back for a Master's of Administration with an emphasis in professional writing and editing. While I've had short stories and articles published, sold a screenplay, and receive royalties from that as well as from my books, editing, coaching other self-publishers, and freelance writing help pay the bills.

Please visit my website: www.sherimcguinn.com