Amey Zeigler's Journey to Publication

Amey, now that we've heard a little bit about Wylder Bride--which sounds amazing, by the way--do you mind filling us in on your early writing career? I'm wildly curious about it and I'm sure other readers are, too. 

How did you get started writing?

When I was little, I used to write mysteries and I read a ton of Nancy Drew. The stories didn’t really make sense, but to my nine-year-old mine, they did. I also wrote plays that had the same amount of lines for each person because I wanted everyone to be equal. I'm so kind like that. ;) But then in college, I took some creative writing classes. Mostly I just loved how books transported me and made me feel certain things. I wanted to do that for other people.

What was your journey to publication? 

I hit 31 and I lamented to my husband how I always wanted to be a writer but never did. I started lots of books, hit about 20k words and the whole thing fell apart. He told me to sit down and write a scene for a story I had been tossing about in my head. I sat down on Google Docs and wrote out a scene and shared it with him. He said, ‘This is good. Keep going.” So I did. I didn’t now how to write a novel and it took me months to get a beginning, a middle, and an end that made sense. Each scene I sent to my husband and he said the same thing, "Keep going.” And I did. I read books on how to plot, how to craft a scene, how to develop character. But once I finished, I felt like I had run a marathon. I felt so good.

Thank you for sharing! It's always so interesting to see how authors get started on the writing path. 


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