by Maggie Preston | Sep 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
In 2014 I took the leap and left my full time job for the life of a contractor. I’d thought about it for years but was apprehensive about the necessity to network and find jobs. Then I realized how much networking I do as a writer and it became less daunting a task....
by Maggie Preston | Aug 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
Those words have always had a specific meaning for me. The long-awaited for words I get to type at the end of a completed book. Recently they took on new meaning. My dad died on August 15th, my mom, brother and I standing near his bed as his last breath rattled from...
by Maggie Preston | Aug 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
Ignoring all the short stories I wrote as a angsty teen – where my heroine ALWAYS died and the hero promised to never love anyone else, ever again – my first book was an historical romance titled Of Captured Heart. I remember so well submitting my first pages to a...
by Maggie Preston | Jul 28, 2015 | Uncategorized
I mean that literally, by the way. I just spent 20 hours flying between the US and Korea and now I can’t see 2 feet outside my window because of the cloud cover. It’s been raining since I returned. Nature is telling me to stay inside and write. I’m not a newbie with...
by Maggie Preston | Jul 22, 2015 | Uncategorized
That’s a bit cliche, I know but it also feels sort of true. I arrived yesterday for the RWA National Conference and feel jazzed. That’s the only word for it. I even woke up jonesing to work out, and luckily the fitness center is on my floor just a few doors down from...
