Nicole McCaffrey's Road to Publication


Nicole, now that we've heard a little bit about Christmas in the Wylder County Jail—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? What was your journey to publication?

I was pretty young.  My sister was writing short stories for school and getting a lot of praise and attention for it.  Anyone who has a sibling would not be surprised to hear that I decided I wanted to try it, too.  Once the writing bug took hold, I just kept doing it. I don’t think I’ve ever really stopped.

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