Many people, when first deciding to write a book, land on what they know best: a personal experience. This is exactly where I started. But publishers like originality, and as Ecclesiastes 1:9 tells us, “there is nothing new under the sun” (NKJV).
My first book dealt with child sexual abuse by a family member. It’s been 10-plus years since I wrote Carried by Grace, but even then there were thousands of books on the topic. That meant my book had to have a unique angle on the topic, which it did: I was the mother of the victim and the book addressed a mother’s healing. (Carried by Grace is available in my bookstore and at Amazon.) At the time, there were no other books to help mothers navigate that journey.
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