Drama!

Some people have asked me how I came to write AN UNACCEPTABLE TRUTH. It is completely different than my first couple of books, which were funny and light. I wondered about this myself – why did I do a 180 when it came to this book? The answer, I realized, was pretty simple.

I LOVE DRAMA!! Oh, the MARTINI series had drama queen Nicole, but I’m talking about gut-wrenching, what’s going to happen here, I didn’t see that coming kind of drama. 

While AN UNACCEPTABLE TRUTH was fun to write – as all of my writing should be – it was also a bit difficult at times. As the character and story of Cate Harper evolved I began to see her sink deeper into the desperation the confusion of her own mind was causing her. She couldn’t separate the reality of what she knew with the nightmares and fleeting memories her mind was tossing at her. DRAMA! 

As Cate began to question herself, the man who loves her became more convinced than ever that he needed to protect her – he just wasn’t certain what was keeping Cate so guarded and vulnerable.

I could have gone two ways with the ending – happily ever after or the reality that not all stories have that happy ending.

You’ll have to read Cate’s story to find out which way I chose! I hope you enjoy the book and will leave a good-bad-or ugly review on Amazon!

Dee Morgan

Promoting the Promotion

Really? I have to promote the fact that I’m doing a promotion to promote my books?

When I realized this unwelcome fact of being an author, I wasn’t at all pleased. I want to write books. I don’t want to be a salesperson. But much to my chagrin, this is as much a part of authoring as the writing part. 

So there I was – seated at a table at an outdoor event with twenty or so other vendors selling everything from food to jewelry to 50/50 raffle tickets – and no one was coming by anyone’s table! What the heck?! 

Did I fail to mention this event was an outdoor concert? Oh right, there is that little detail. I looked around and there were hundreds of people seated in their folding chairs waiting for the music to start. 

Time to take the bull by the horns. I grabbed two handfuls of my promotional bookmarks and off I went. If the mountain top won’t come to me, I’ll just go climb that mountain.

I gave out close to 300 bookmarks and spoke to several people that were pleased to know that I was a local author and said they would look at my books. 

Another lesson learned: marketing books is a lot of work. So I’m currently looking for an agent that I will happily pay to represent my work and tell me what more I have to do to promote my books in an electronic world of millions of books. 

Then I’m going to have a glass of wine and write more books. 

Happy Days to all of you!

Dee Morgan