She Writes Bloggers Ball

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She Writer Blogger Ball #6

 Welcome,

My name is Sheri L. Swift and I'm the author of Legend of the Mer which is a Christian Y/A Fiction Fantasy that I had originally written in my junior year of High School.  My daughters would take it out of an old trunk and read it each summer.  After my baby entered college (some 30 years later) I finally sat down and rewrote it. The first draft was on an electric typewriter because I didn't own a computer.  Then I had a surgery in March of 2008 that revealed that I had cervical and uterine cancer.  I had to go through two separate rounds of radiation.  During those days, my youngest (who still lived at home) not only drove me each day for my treatments, but also read each chapter of my manuscript to me out loud as to help me edit it.  Those were some pretty bad days, but the story helped me to *escape* from my current situation (which was pretty much lying in bed in pain).  I credited her as assistant editor in my book for all of the work she helped me to do.  I eventually took my story one chapter at a time to our local college where they allow the public to use their computers.  Then in November of 2009 I was able to email it for copyright.  After one year of sending my manuscript daily to traditional publishers, it became apparent to me that my book would only be published as a "Partnership" publication which meant that I would spend a great deal of money to have my book in print.  I researched the self-publishing route and discovered that I could have an ebook and a print book without any cost to me.  As you can see by my links to the right, I have successfully published!  ; )