If I was an accountant, I wouldn’t ask a client permission to do a client’s taxes. Nor would I ask to do my job if I were a doctor, lawyer, shoe salesman, or garbage man. So why as a writer, do I feel like I need permission to write?

I have had jobs before, if I waited around for permission, bosses would have passed me by and found that gal (or guy) who would have taken the initiative and do what needed to be done. Same thing in the publishing world.

There’s not going to be someone there to hold your hand and say, “Come on hon, you need to finish that scene.” If you’re lucky you may have a supportive hubby who, when he gets home from work and sees you sitting at the computer, will threaten to call one of your writer friends and tell them you’re playing your 45^th round of Cubis Deluxe or a crit partner who will not put up with your shit excuses and demand you get your damned heroine out of a doggie door, but they can’t make you do your job. They can’t hold your butt to the seat and put your fingers tapping to the keyboard, yet you (meaning ME) feel the need to ask permission to create, need the go-ahead to call yourself a writer.

It is a job, and if your lucky and persevere you can make a living at it, or at the very least supplement your income doing something you love! But for some of us you have to have permission to do it.

If that is what you’re waiting for, someone to give you permission, I hereby declare you (AND I) have my permission to write! GO DO IT!

And might I remind you, The Inn Crowd releases NEXT WEEK from Samhain Publishing in E-format.

“The Inn Crowd” by Denise Belinda McDonald
Genre: Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 1-59998-440-7

Length: Novel

Price: $5.50
Publication Date: March 20, 2007 (in e-format – print version September 18, 2007)
Cover art by Anne Cain

What do you get when you have a beautiful B & B owner, an incognito movie star, his entourage and a leather wearing, hairless pooch all staying at the Wild Rose Bed and Breakfast?

Jamie Crawford needs time to unwind after his last movie. His sudden bump from B-list to A-list actor keeps him too busy to take time for himself. When an opportunity arises for him to sneak into a small Texas town and for some much-needed R & R, he snaps it up. The last thing he expects is to meet the beautiful owner and fall almost instantly head-over-heels.

Lorenna Beauchamp runs her inn and has time for little else. And that’s the way she likes it—until her stunningly handsome new guest piques an interest she thought long dormant. She breaks all her rules to get close to him. Imagine her surprise when she learns that not only has Jamie been hiding his identity, but he is one of the most sought after celebs.

Jamie has to persuade Lorenna his feelings are true while he convinces himself that loving someone isn’t detrimental to his career. Can Lorenna get past the lies and her mistrust of all things Hollywood to give Jamie a chance?

 ENJOY!