A Chat Between Friends. How Did You . . . Get Started Writing? What Did and Did Not Work For Me.

<p><strong>You have a story to tell. But where do you start?</strong> If the thought of writing a book is daunting then this is the book for you!</p><p> </p><p>How did you get started writing? is the question Kelly J. Stigliano gets asked most frequently. </p><p> </p><p>After a small newspaper in the rural south printed her opinionated letter to the editor the unexpected uproar opened her eyes to the power of her pen. </p><p> </p><p>Emboldened she submitted stories about her life to magazines and found success. Now fifteen anthologies and hundreds of articles later she shares her journey from quelled quill to powerful pen. </p><p> </p><p>Kelly's memoir <em>Praying for Murder Receiving Mercy: From At-Risk to At Peace; My Journey from Fear to Freedom</em> has encouraged women worldwide. In it she shared her road from pregnant teen bride to abused wife to broke and broken single mother to redeemed survivor. </p><p> </p><p>Now in her first <em>How Did You . . .</em> book Kelly tells what did and did not work as she offers resources and reveals the costly mistakes she made on her path to publication.  </p><p> </p><p>Settle in for a friendly chat with the author as she encourages you to write because <strong>you have a story that</strong> <strong>only you</strong> <strong>can tell</strong>!  </p>