I enjoy writing. I love putting my ideas in a blank Word document, then organizing them into something creative. I doubt the books I write will make the bestseller list, but that doesn’t matter. I write partly for me and mostly for others. If I can reach at least one person, I’m happy. I can tell by the likes and comments I receive on my blog and Facebook page that I’m definitely reaching more than one person, and that’s great!
Besides, if I were a bestselling author like Eve, my main character in The Red Dress, and I had a husband and children, I would find it hard to balance work and family. As you’ll note from the following excerpts, Eve definitely has this problem.
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“Mom, where’s my Sugar Shack shirt?”
On a Saturday afternoon in June, Eve Sawyer turned from her computer with a sigh and faced her seventeen–year–old daughter, Julie, who was standing in her home office doorway, fresh from the shower, clad only in a long t–shirt.
“Oh, honey, I’m sorry. I’ve been so busy with the proofs for Always that I haven’t gotten around to putting away the laundry. It’s still in the dryer.”
Julie rolled her eyes. “God, I hate having a bestselling author for a mom.”
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Half an hour later, Eve had finished reading and responding to email. She took Ginger for a long walk, stopping at a corner market on the way home. For the first time in two weeks, she planned to surprise her family with a home–cooked meal. Since she’d been busy with the proofs of her latest book, they’d eaten nothing but leftovers and take–out, so she knew her husband and children would be thrilled.
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So, who’s Ginger? Does Eve ever figure out how to balance her family and her writing? Read The Red Dress, and you’ll find out.
How about you? Would you write if you knew you couldn’t sell any books? Thanks to blogger Stevie Turner for inspiring this post. If you’d like to answer this question in her blog hop, click here. Otherwise, you can leave your answer in the comment field below.
By the way, for those of you who use the National Library Services for the Blind and Print Disabled, The Red Dress is available for download from their site here. No matter how you read it, please be sure to review it wherever you can. That goes for all my books. Thank you for stopping by. Stay safe, happy, and healthy, and may you always have positive experiences.
Copyright July 2019 by DLD Books
When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.
Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.
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