From Two-Finger Typing To A Published Book!

I sat down at my daughter’s school computer in July of 1990, and two-fingered the words that started to flow onto a bunch of floppy disks. Over the next month or so, I realized writing had become quite therapeutic, and that I wanted to keep going.The first thing I needed to do was to purchase a proper computer, but in those days, I was a totally lost and overwhelmed when I talked to any computer sales rep. They might as well have been speaking Chinese.

Fortunately, a lovely lady took pity on me, and not only did she help me with my hardware purchase, she set me up with Quark Express, a program specifically designed for writers.

To top things off, she told me that her husband was a high school English teacher, and that they would be more than happy help a novice author with both technical support and editorial comment.

With their help, I was able to charge full speed ahead to the next step in the process, completing my manuscript and then trying to find and agent and a publisher. To say that I was naïve about this process would be an understatement.