BACK DOOR PUBLISHING GIG by Thonie Hevron
I'm delighted to welcome my friend, Thonie Hevron, to my blog today. I met Thonie at last year's PSWA conference. Thonie Hevron Marilyn suggested I write about how I got published. It’s a great idea and may offer the unpublished writer some hope to be published! I’ve been writing for years—since I could hold a pencil. About fifteen years ago, I got serious and decided to write a novel. It took several years but I completed Probable Cause which became B y Force or Fear eventually. Getting serious included joining a professional writing association- Public Safety Writers Association (PSWA but in those days it was known as Police Writers Association). One of the perks of membership is a free manuscript evaluation by a professional editor. I sent Probably Cause in and was encouraged to submit it as an unpublished manuscript in the PSWA annual writing contest. I tied for third place in the unpublished fiction novel category. Woohoo! This made me an ...