Thank you, Jean, for inviting me to your blog. I am so excited to share my story with you, and now, the rest of the world. My women’s fiction novel, The Price of Secrets, was released on April 7, 2021.
My journey to publication took a little longer than most—I’m over 60 (not saying how far over)—but I’m as excited as I was when I published my first article in the Nosy Neighborhood News at age eleven. Perhaps that’s an understatement—I’m over the moon! It only took about fifty more years to land a contract with The Wild Rose Press.
To be fair, I wasn’t trying for the first forty; I was using the left side of my brain managing my business. But about ten years ago, after spending most of my life making a living, I decided to make a life. I started putting words on paper, or cyber paper— scratches in a notebook, notes on loose scraps of paper, ramblings on my computer—that seemed to be forming a story. With the help of my critique group, various writing classes and some wonderful writing conferences, my first draft was transformed into something worthy of publication.
Will revealing her secrets bring her peace or destroy everything she holds dear?
When Jamie Crandall left Seattle for college twenty-five years ago, she was pregnant. Her mother demanded she have an abortion or get the hell out of Seattle and never come back. Jamie chose the latter, using her scholarship to UC Berkeley to disappear with the son she refused to abort. But now, twenty-five years later, everything has changed. Her mother has died, and Jamie is coming home to face the father of her son. Reuniting her son and his father will come at a high price though…Jamie has one more secret left to reveal.
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If you’d like to know more about me or my path to publishing The Price of Secrets, please check out my blog, www.jmaydaze.com. You can also follow me on Twitter at @JacquieRMay or find me on Facebook at Jacquie May Miller (facebook.com/Jacquie.m.miller/).