This is going to sound weird, but I've been writing for a long time. And I've written lots and lots of short stories and novels that are "resting" in plastic boxes under the benches in our basement, because my writing was nothing to brag about when I first started. I didn't expect it to be. I'm not a quick, brilliant learner, so it takes me a while to get halfway decent at anything. So, I just kept at it, and eventually, I got an agent, But I was writing paranormals back then, and the market was glutted. So even though Lauren liked what I wrote, she couldn't sell it. But, she let me self-publish it. And it didn't set the world on fire. I wrote under my name then, Judith Post. And finally, Lauren said "Enough's enough. Try something else so maybe we can sell it." She recommended trying romance. So, I wrote six, and Kensington took them, but they didn't set the world on fire either. Then my editor suggested I try a cozy, and that's when I started writing Jazzi and Ansel.
The thing is, the books I wrote as Judith Post feel like a lifetime ago. I hardly ever look at them anymore. But when I think about them, I still love them. So, when D. Wallace Peach read and wrote a review for Babet and Prosper, the first collection of four novellas, I was surprised, and it brought back tons of happy memories. It was wonderful.
I recently read her Seas of Time novella, book four in the Harbor Pointe Series and LOVED it! It's a fun combination of time travel and fantasy with wonderful characters. Zam stole my heart. https://www.amazon.com/Seas-Time-Harbor-Pointe-Book-ebook/dp/B0CCQGRXH9/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3J2F50HJOPEBV&keywords=the+sea+of+time+d.+wallace+peach&qid=1703706879&sprefix=D.+Wallace+Peach%2Caps%2C168&sr=8-1
So, it's an honor that she liked some of my early writing. Here's her review: https://www.bookbub.com/reviews/1099927545. She gave me a great gift over the holidays. She made me think about Babet and Prosper again.
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