Some Jeremy's Kiss History

Jeremy's Kiss started in the mid 1990s as an idea. I had my group of friends that I hung out with and we did all kinds of games and spending time together. One of the games we played was to create vampire characters, create a storyline, and through the course of an evening (or several) each would share what our characters did as the situations developed.

I created one of the story lines, but we never got the opportunity to play it out.

So the idea sat in my head.

In the early 2000s, I sat down and started typing out a short story about a runaway girl. It was just something that came to my mind, and I just let it out. I realized as that short story developed that it would go very well with the idea I had generated as a game with my friends.

I followed that thought, and it clicked. It really worked. I had more than a story line. I had the makings of a book. That was when I had to write. It needed to move out of my head and into a file.

I wrote for about a year. Then I spent another year just going over and going over what I had written. I wanted it to be something I would want to read.

Then came the really hard part. Finding someone to edit the story for me. That didn't happen while it sat on my computer. Then I heard about self publishing. I didn't think of myself as an author at that time. I just knew I had written a book and that was something kind of cool. So I went to Create Space and got it started, but I didn't "release" it for sale. I ordered the proof copy and went back to trying to find an editor. In the meantime I worked on it myself. I grabbed the red pen, and went through the print edition and found all kinds of corrections I needed to make. Then I found an editor (call her Teri). She read through it all, and added her corrections.

I poured over it making all those corrections. Then in April of this year I officially released it for sale. I didn't expect much. I was happy with what I had done. Then the first reviews come in. Wow. I was really struck. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. People who read the story really liked it.

One of them did some freelance editing, and she sent me another page of corrections to make. I went back through and made the corrections. Then put it back up for sale.

That is where it is today. I still hear amazing reviews from people who read it.

There is the story of how Jeremy's Kiss came to be.

This Blog is open for Business

This is still a work in progress.

But I can now safely say the blog is open and visitors are always welcome of course.

I wish I had more to say with my first post, but after putting in a few hours just on the look of the page, I seem to be short of words.

For any who visit at this time. Welcome, and I'll be sure to work on having some better quality to the posting (I have a head full of stuff to write, I'll get there).

Happy Saturday.

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