Rancher’s Daughter is now available on Amazon.

I started writing this novella back in 2006 or 2007. I had been out of the Navy for a few years and I was going through a rough time so I kept pushing the book aside. I almost gave up on writing altogether.

I honestly didn’t know I had saved the file on this novella. I had moved several times since then and thought it would’ve been lost or tossed out like most of my stuff had been.

Last year, I was moving things around the house, setting up my office as my author business began to expand. As I was shuffling things and rummaging through boxes, I found a few boxes of old magazines, notebooks, journals, etc. Things I found too important to lose, apparently. I thumbed through the journals and notebooks when I stumbled upon notes I had scribbled down on this one novella I had started years ago. I turned a few more pages and found the whole story typed up and printed out.

My curiosity was peaked now. I turned on the computer and opened up the files on my thumb drive, wondering if I may have this story saved somehow. Sure enough, I found it. I smiled, thinking that it was some miracle I still had it. I must’ve been able to compile ALL of my works together onto one jump drive years ago and simply just forgot about them.

Through the years, I had purchased a handful of jump drives, saving whatever writing projects I had. I had lost all but two of those jumpdrives. It was a habit for me to open more folders to save newer projects in, abandoning older folders that had old writing projects that I had started and pushed aside. However, all of these folders was saved on this one jump drive.

Now with the file found, along with my notes, I sat down to read through it all carefully and decided to give it another go. Since it had been a few years since I had read this story, I was able to have a fresh start on it; new scenes, new ideas, new title, etc. It wasn’t long before I had added to the story and edited it, before turning it into one polished novella and sending it off to my editor.

Now, I get to see it as I had intended for it years ago as a published book. You can purchase Rancher’s Daughter as an ebook on Amazon.