Mica's Call To Adventure

And that the book involved was titled CALL ME?

Coincidence? Or X-Files?

I had been writing for several years and had even sold my first book to Meteor Publishing's Kismet imprint. PLAYING LOVE'S ODDS was an August 1993 release, and the next to the last book in the line. Being a publishing industry orphan is not an uncommon state of affairs, i.e., I was the only one feeling sorry for me! I continued to write, unfocused; dramatic angst, futuristic, paranormal . . . I had no idea what I was doing. (Not much different than today!)

Oh, and I stopped writing on the paranormal after reading a quote by the fabulous Amanda Glass aka Jayne Ann Krentz (author of SHIELD'S LADY and CRYSTAL FLAME which rival Ann Maxwell's FIRE DANCER series [and yes, I even own THE SINGER ENIGMA] as my all time favorite futuristic / sf romances!) in which she said even she could not sell another futuristic under the current market conditions. (Of course, futuristics and paranormals were all the rage for the next few years (check out Catherine Asaro's THE TALE OF ROBOROCK AND SWEET BLOSSOM <g>) . . . and mine never saw the light of day -- though it did receive critical contest acclaim and caused Christina Dodd to unknowingly call me a . . . I'll save that story for another time!)

	My Call To Adventure begin when I picked up the phone one afternoon at the office to find a producer from CBS 48 HOURS on the line.
updated 05/23/01	So, my Call To Adventure was literally a call!
And that the book involved was titled CALL ME? Coincidence? Or X-Files? I had been writing for several years and had even sold my first book to Meteor Publishing's Kismet imprint. PLAYING LOVE'S ODDS was an August 1993 release, and the next to the last book in the line. Being a publishing industry orphan is not an uncommon state of affairs, i.e., I was the only one feeling sorry for me! I continued to write, unfocused; dramatic angst, futuristic, paranormal . . . I had no idea what I was doing. (Not much different than today!) Oh, and I stopped writing on the paranormal after reading a quote by the fabulous Amanda Glass aka Jayne Ann Krentz (author of SHIELD'S LADY and CRYSTAL FLAME which rival Ann Maxwell's FIRE DANCER series [and yes, I even own THE SINGER ENIGMA] as my all time favorite futuristic / sf romances!) in which she said even she could not sell another futuristic under the current market conditions. (Of course, futuristics and paranormals were all the rage for the next few years (check out Catherine Asaro's THE TALE OF ROBOROCK AND SWEET BLOSSOM <g>) . . . and mine never saw the light of day -- though it did receive critical contest acclaim and caused Christina Dodd to unknowingly call me a . . . I'll save that story for another time!)
FINALLY . . . It was in February of 1994 that I found my niche, a niche with a solid traceable foundation. You see, I read this book that blew me away and knew THIS was what I wanted to write! And so I did, writing the story that became CALL ME. But back to The Call ... One afternoon in May 1995, having submitted the manuscript to Harlequin Temptation several months before, I picked up the phone and found myself talking to a producer for CBS 48 Hours. (Don Dahler, now a correspondent for ABC.) I knew other authors who'd been contacted by the show, but me? A nobody? Long story short, I was the "new" author picked to have a "first sale" recorded live for video posterity. (I explained that I had previously sold in 1993, but no matter. Me thinks the wheels were already in motion long before I agreed to bare my soul . . . my bedroom . . . my closet . . . on national television!)

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