Publishing my first romance novel—Saving Shelby—wasn’t the beginning of my writing journey, but it was the moment that turned a dream into a reality. It was scary and exhilarating at the same time.
When I hit publish, I felt like Saving Shelby was the best story that would ever come from my fingertips. I couldn’t even imagine coming up with a better storyline.
However, it didn’t take long for me to realize how naïve I was. I was only part way through writing Ginny’s Crush—the second book in the series—when I figoured out that I had made a few critical errors that were going to come back to haunt me later in the series.
In this post I will let you in on a few secrets about Saving Shelby. I will disclose which locations are real and which ones are completely made up.
And I will tell you which decision I would make differently, if I was writing it today! *Note that there may be a few minor spoilers in this post*
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