GreenMom,GreenBaby: Greening My first Novel. Behind the Scenes.

Five years ago I penned the book I knew was brewing in me since I was a kid.
Fresh out of my marketing position at LIVE 105 in San Francisco, I had found the book
No Plot? No Problem which was part of a much larger picture. It served as a gateway to a community of writers who commit the month of November to writing. November in this circle is National Novel Writing Month. Nanowrimo.org

Man. I was hooked.

After thirty long, hard days of avoiding friends, dodging holiday parties and truly getting to know the meaning of commitment it was... done. It would take another few years of editing, rewriting, hiring a professional editor, having a baby, relentlessly soliciting agents and publishers, yielding rejection letters and being so closed to penning representation for me to finally decide to set this creative child free unto the world ...on my own.

I made this decision mostly because this grand story in a shiny black and white cover is only in part fiction. Of course names have been changed & I've followed the rules of fiction writing to the line. However, when it comes down to it, Witch Wolf? The Curse is a vivid recollection of the time I was bullied in grade school because of my freakish like appearance.

Yes. That's me.
At twelve years old I was overweight. I had no teeth or hair. This combination does not make the best of days for a little girl. But without my parents and a few teachers encouraging me despite the taunting from peers, I've lived to tell - creatively - in hopes to encourage other children who may be or have been through similar circumstances that they too can overcome.

I've teamed up with Bob Schaeffer and Chris West at Behavior Health Associates in Lehighton in hopes to provide education to local school children about effects of bullying.
A portion of the sale of Witch Wolf? The Curse will allow for an anti bullying program to be brought to a school near you. Please contact me for a book drive in your school or more info.

Choosing to self publish was not an easy decision.
Many people say that no one of any literary anything

will ever take me seriously as a writer.

But I needed to set free this little girl who had a great big story to tell inside of me.

So I chose this past independence day to do such things :)

I also thought the self publishing route would most definitely honor the Green Mommy in me as Witch Wolf? The Curse is available as print on demand.
No excess copies or trees wasted in the production. (Please & Thank you!)

Since I've writing Witch Wolf? The Curse I've also been blessed to pen a TV pilot, a few scripts and of course I've started the next book in the Witch Wolf series: Sibling Rivalry.
I've also gave birth to GreenMomGreenbaby.
I'm blessed to contribute to the amazing Dark Beauty Magazine as Krafty Kitty (Resident White Witch). I continue to blog about the amazing paranormal adventure my life has become at http://mlgallagher.blogspot.com.
I couldn't be more proud to have a beautiful daughter who continues to inspire me to be the best person I can be every day - hence giving birth to my second, inner child; Witch Wolf? The Curse.