Vanessa Speer

I was around 8 when I first pulled out a notebook and set about to write a story. The story was about a horse named Raindrop whose Mother was about to give birth to a new foal and how she felt about that. Later in the story Raindrop meets a young stallion who she falls in love with. I was surprisingly detailed when I was writing the scene where the two infatuated horses rendezvoused at a lake in the moonlight. This should have been a hint to my parents of the future hours they would have to endure with me watching Jane Austen movies and the like.

I've always wanted to be a writer, but honestly, the traditional realm of publishing is hard to break into and just as hard to stay in. I know of A-MAZING authors whom I absolutely love who have been dropped by their publishers for not having enough sales. Are their stories bland? Have they run out of interesting ideas? NO! Publishing houses are businesses, they have a bottom line, and if you're stories aren't selling...well, you can't sit at the cool kid's table. (I'm not bitter, I'm just sayin'.)
I want to write stories based on where my heart is leading me, not were a margin on a sales record is directing me, so being an indie author is the right fit for me at this point in my life.