By Catherine Burr

So, I'm writing another one of these books that is a secret and it's a big secret cause I won't release it! It's a book that I'm writing for myself. You know the kind, sort of like a journal that no one can read. After my book was published, "An Inconvenient Attorney" I learned about myself. I learned that there are some things I will share and others I will not. Wow, what an admission of... something!

The thing about "An Inconvenient Attorney" is when it was published, it was published quietly, didn't sell tons at first, but then it got discovered on Amazon and it was bought and read by a lot of people, thousands. And it was on the Best Seller List, generally in the top 20, for over 52 weeks. And I freaked out a little. I realized what a personal book/story it was and I didn't want anyone else to read it.

So, I'm writing another one of those "types" of books, where I write it to get it out of my system, but this time I don't think I will post it because while I want people to read it, I don't really. I think this is something only an author could understand. Sometimes you just have words inside of you that you need to get out, but no one really needs to read them.

When you write a book, at least for me, you don't really write it thinking people are going to read it. You write it because you have a story burning inside of you so deep you have to get it written. I remember when my first novel came out, "Silicon Secrets", I was so excited, then when it took off and became a huge hit and when it hit the Best Seller List on Amazon and also hit the "Movers and Shakers" List for fasting selling books on Amazon, and when I received so much feedback and bookstores were calling me to book me for events, and I was on TV, radio, featured on Regis and Katie Lee, was in the tabloids, well, there came a point when I kind of freaked out a little. It was overwhelming. I thought, people are actually going to read this, people have read this, people are giving me feedback and it's a weird feeling when you work on something for years, then people read it in a couple days and people from all over the world read your work, it's very daunting.

I have to say that I have learned a lot over the years of being a published author. But I am smart enough to know that the only thing that stays the same is change. So, it'll be interesting to see what changes come about in both my writing and the publishing industry as a whole.

Well, I've gotten off on a tangent here and didn't mean to, but it's an occupational hazard of being a writer!

See ya around,
Love, Catherine Burr.