First Draft to Published

Good Morning, Writing Daze Readers, Thanks so much for asking me to blog on your site about the following questions: Tell us about a day in the life of you the writer, what's your writing day like? Do you balance family and writing, or writing and a job outside the house, or writing, a job and family? What was it like for you to write this book along with your busy life? First, let me introduce myself. I’m Kathryn Shay and I’ve been published by Harlequin and The Berkley Publishing Group for the last fifteen years. THE PERFECT FAMILY , which will be released from Bold Strokes Books in September, is my thirty-seventh book. It’s about a typical family whose seventeen year old son tells them he’s gay and the ensuing struggle the family endures. My typical writing day is different from what it was when I initially published, so I’ll start with that. When I sold my first book, I was a full time high school English teacher. My goal was to publish one book a year, which I thought I could ...