Elizabeth Lynn Casey | Five Things I Never Expected About Being An Author

Back when I was ten and dreaming about being an author, I thought the job was pretty simple…

*Write a book. *See it on a library shelf.

And, truth be told, that would have been enough. I mean, it can’t get any cooler than that, right?

Wrong.

This month’s release of WEDDING DURESS—the tenth book in my Southern Sewing Circle Mysteries—and the twenty traditionally published titles before it have all proven one thing. Being an author entails a lot more than writing a book and seeing it on a library shelf.

To that end, I present to you my list of five things I never expected about being an author (drum roll, optional)…

1) Spying your book on a bookstore shelf far from where you live never gets old. Ever.

2) Getting fan mail is an incredible feeling all on its own. But hearing that your book helped someone through a tough time is really the cherry on top.

3) Having someone drive an hour just to meet you at a signing is pinch-worthy. 4) Fictional characters do, in fact, talk to you. They’re particularly vocal while driving a car and taking a shower. If you don’t listen to them, they cast a spell on you known as writer’s block.

5) There really is something better than writing. It’s the people you meet (writers and readers, alike) who become true friends along the way.

Part of me wishes I could go back in time and tell ten-year-old-me just how much fun being an author would really be.

Then again, I wouldn’t want to ruin the surprise.

About WEDDING DURESS

Librarian Tori Sinclair is tying the knot—as long as a murder doesn’t unravel her plans…

Tori is ecstatic to become Mrs. Milo Wentworth in a few days, but she has a lot to do before she sashays down the aisle. Favors need to be sewn, vows need to be written— and a mystifying murder needs to be solved.

When Beatrice, a fellow member of the Sweet Briar Ladies Society Sewing Circle, learns that her former nanny took a fatal fall in her new employers’ home, she suspects the death was not an accident. Now Tori’s spending her last days as a single woman untangling rumors and stitching together motives to find a killer. But can she nab a murderer and make it to the church on time?

About Elizabeth Lynn Casey

Elizabeth Lynn Casey is the national best-selling author of the Southern Sewing Circle Mysteries. The latest installment in the series, WEDDING DURESS, has just released. In addition to this series, Elizabeth also pens the Amish Mysteries under her own name, Laura Bradford. For more information, visit: ElizabethLynnCasey.com or LauraBradford.com.