In January of this year, Clean Reads sent me a contract, by March we started edits, and then got scheduled for a June release. I can’t say I ran into any “lows” with publishing this one (my third novel). I sent several query letters to agents and a couple of publishers and I heard back from a few, but it was only Clean Reads that wanted to publish it. It became a simple little tale that grew into a more complex and fantastical story than before. It was amazing to me how the story expanded. It always held a special place in my heart, but I didn’t ever think about turning it into a novel until last year. I wrote a three page story “The Gold” back in 1998.
I was thrilled to see my work in print, and my family and friends were just as overjoyed! That’s why I kept writing, publishing my second novel Rian Field, a mystery thriller in January 2016 and my third novel The Gold, a middle-grade fantasy. In August, 2014, TouchPoint Press released Intent. It took over fifty query letters to agents and to two publishers to get a contract. The next month, on a family road trip, I completed the novel version of Intent. Within four weeks, I had the entire outline of each act completed and an entire screenplay ready to go. That meant she had to break free from the mundane life, overcome her bitterness and heartbreak from losing loved ones, and question those she had once trusted. How to get to that conclusion proved challenging because I had to make Raylee, the main protagonist, able to figure out who the villain was. At first, I knew the premise and I knew how the story would end. The idea for my book formulated during my Advanced Screenwriting class for my MFA in Creative Writing degree.
The plot, the characters, their growth, all of it came at me suddenly and developed in a matter of weeks. My first novel, Intent, a spiritual dramatic thriller, came to me as a surprise. Today Krista Wagner stopped by to share her Path to Publication Story.
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