In college, I was told I couldn’t write. Years later, my first book, Married Women Who Love Women sold to Doubleday, a major publishing house. And last year the second edition was released by Taylor and Francis’ Routledge, an academic press. Based on the journey that brought me from neophyte writer to successfully published author and marketer, for the past ten years I have been teaching a workshop called “The Smart Writer’s Guide: What to Know Before, During and After Writing a Book.” It was during those classes, at the urging of the attendees, that my latest book, A Writer’s Journey: What to Know Before, During, and After Writing a Book, came to be written.