Shiela Stewart is a Romance Writer
November 5th, 2006 by misterseo
I just read the author bio for romance author Shiela Stewart . It brought tears to my eyes. I’ve met some fine women hanging around with romance writers and most have worked long and hard to get published. Read on for Shiela’s story.
I dabbled for the next few years, writing poetry for my hubby and my children, while the stories piled up in my mind. I wanted to write about love, about romance, but felt it might be too risqué. I had no idea there was even such a thing as a Romance writer. Then I picked up a Nora Roberts books and a lock inside of me was released.
I wrote for years, free hand, filling binders of my work. There were so many stories fighting their way free inside my mind. At times, I couldn’t keep up and wrote two to three novels at once. But I never thought I was good enough.
Six years ago, my hubby, the pushy man he is, told me it was time I started looking into publishers. I politely told him, “What, are you F%&^% nuts, I am not that good.” So he picked up the phone and called a local Publishing company for me. Within a week I had a booklet with Romance Authors and Publishers. I began researching, and felt overwhelmed. I continued to write…
Having dropped out of school in grade nine to help my ailing parents, I was afraid if Publishers found out I was uneducated, they would laugh me off the face of the earth. I continued to write while raising my three children, being a dutiful wife, sister, daughter and yearned to have my work out there for others to read. My hubby pushed me, and I continued. To date, I have well over seventy completed manuscripts, most in rough draft, but the ones I think are good enough I have edited and placed on my website.
More rejections came in, and I began to doubt myself, once again. I was on the verge of tossing in the towel when I stumbled across a writing contest on line. Most of me went, “Get real, you’ll never win”, while a small part of me said, “But maybe…”. So I sent in Awaken the Demon, and became one of four finalists. That alone was a major accomplishment for me. I lost, but I had gotten farther than I ever had before. And I plugged on, sending in more of my stories to the editor. To my utter shock, she was interested in one of my books.
Guys, you never know what your woman can accomplish if you give them encouragement and a little push every once in a while.
Be sure to check out Shiela Stewart’s web site and watch for her book Kidnapped, from Linden Bay.
