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L.A. Sartor, author of the new romantic suspense novel Dare to Believe, is my guest.
I stopped writing. Immediately, according to my parents.
This was in Junior High School, I think 8th grade during a
parent/teacher with the student conference. My sweet, pretty teacher told us
that I'd never be a writer because I wouldn't learn what writing was all about.
Grammar, parsing, nouns, verbs, participles. And that all I wanted to do was to
tell stories.
Well, yeah. Duh.
But here's an interesting kicker: I didn't remember any of this. I knew
I loved reading even from an early age, and that stories transported me to new
worlds, romance, mystery, biographies…I'd read almost anything. Even the
newspaper.
Then many years later I read a truly terrible romance, and literally
threw the book against the bedroom wall in our small condo. My husband came
running in, worried I'd had an accident. I told him I could write better than
that. He looked at me kinda funny, then said, "So do it."
I called my mom and told her I was going to write a romance, and she
said, "It's about time, I knew you'd get back to it." I had no idea
what she was talking about, and she told me the story.
Frankly, I was pissed. Why would a teacher tell something like this to
a child filled with dreams?
So I wrote a book, and I loved it. It might not have been great, but
it was a start. Then I wrote another and another and here I am, 20 years later,
still telling stories.
I want to transport people into adventures, and romance, and
mysteries. And if I'm lucky, show them something new, be it a place, an
occupation, a perspective.
I'm also am old enough to know that in a small, miniscule way, that
teacher was right. I still struggle with the intricacies of grammar. But you
know, you can find people to help with that part of the process.
I believe with all my heart, that being a storyteller is a great and
even noble undertaking. Don't ever, EVER, let anyone take that dream away from
you. And if someone wants to try, you come to me and I'll talk you back into
it. You can be a writer, believe it.
GIVEAWAY!
On Friday, Sartor will post
an excerpt from her novel, Dare to
Believe. Anyone who comments between now and Sunday, September 23, by 8
p.m. Eastern time will be entered to win an eBook or, in the
To learn more about L.A. Sartor,
visit her website: http://bit.ly/Msu6J8
Amazon Kindle: http://amzn.to/Qjzzgm
Amazon Paperback: http://amzn.to/MMSLXS
Barnes and Noble: http://bit.ly/QNQCh2
Smashwords: http://bit.ly/MlYSSA
Paperback: http://bit.ly/MENfX5
And your favorite e-reader store.
Five Scribes Blog for Dare to
Believe: http://bit.ly/PekVM4
Facebook Profile: http://on.fb.me/NxXQPL
Facebook Writer: http://on.fb.me/MUU9HK
