Writing (& Succeeding) with Mental Illness with Melissa Storm

Melissa Storm believes in angels and in true love and she writes about both in her USA Today bestselling Christian Romances. She’s and entrepreneur, mom, reality TV addict, domestic zoo keeper, founder of LitRing and a jillion other businesses, former gastric bypass patient, quirky person, your new best friend…

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Here are just a few of the things we touched on:

• How she bounced back from a near death experience to continue writing and subsequently achieve more success than ever before.
• The importance of putting your heart, love, and unbridled hope into your writing.
• Why you should get into the headspace of your characters to make your scenes authentic.
• How to turn personal strife and mental disabilities into fuel for writing excellent characters.
• Being an entrepreneur and the behind the scenes ups and downs that come with it.
• Why you need to get up after you fall down, because you only get as many chances as you give yourself.
• The slippery slope that is complacency.
• How writing for your readers is similar to cooking for another person—it’s so much more satisfying to cook something you both want to eat.
• The value of having a strong support system.
• The end goal of being able to outsource as many tasks as possible to focus on the core of your work in order to succeed.
• The importance of knowing your brand when it comes to marketing.
• Why you should always listen to reader feedback.

About the Author

Melissa Storm is a mother first, and everything else second. Writing is her way of showing her daughter just how beautiful life can be, when you pay attention to the everyday wonders that surround us. So, of course, Melissa’s USA Today bestselling fiction is highly personal and often based on true stories. 

Melissa loves books so much, she married fellow author Falcon Storm. Between the two of them, there are always plenty of imaginative, awe-inspiring stories to share. Melissa and Falcon also run a number of book-related businesses together, including LitRing, Sweet Promise Press, Novel Publicity, Your Author Engine, and the Author Site. When she’s not reading, writing, or child-rearing, Melissa spends time relaxing at home in the company of a seemingly unending quantity of dogs and a rescue cat named Schrödinger.

You can find her:

On Amazon, or at her website melstorm.com.

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