Everybody's Got A Dream

If you listen to interviews of any successful writer, they always talk about how they started writing, basically as an infant, and how they always dreamed of being a writer one day, but not me. Sure, I've always been a bookworm. A real one, the kind that stayed up all night and read by the light of the moon, the kind that reads while walking, and earned her pop bottle glasses by the light of the TV glare at 3:00 o'clock in the morning. Still, I never even considered that I could be writer, not even once upon a dream.
Then one day, well into my 30's, single, unsatisfied with my job, and life in general, buoyed by a group of friends and family, who soon became my first guinea pig group, I sat down to write a classic story of love, loss, and pizza.  Of course they may have been a little too generous, with their praise, but without them my writing dreams would have never gotten off the ground. 
More years later than I can even believe, I've joined the best writing group any aspiring writer could hope for. I've attended several prestigious writer's conferences, including Big Sur in California, NY Pitch, and Killer Nashville, where I've met many other fabulous aspiring writers and wonderfully encouraging agents and editors, some even expressed interest.
Alas, I remain unsigned, so like many writer's before me, I've decided to go the Indie route. I hope that you will come along with me as I make the journey from aspiring to published author.