What a story! The grit and determination you’ve demonstrated in life will serve you well as a writer. Keep writing and rewriting, get professional feedback, sustain that positive attitude for self-marketing, and you may sell a lot more than one copy.

I’ve always been a big dreamer and my life has been full of peaks and valleys. Because of that, I do believe that if a person has a positive attitude, you never know what good things might be lying around the corner.

I already had one period in my life where my life underwent a relatively sudden alteration. In June of 1987, I failed to graduate with my high school class. I was forced to repeat senior year of high school. At the time, I had a guidance counselor tell me I might not be college material.

But I loved basketball and was determined to get into college. Twenty seven months later, I had been admitted to Penn. I remember sitting in a Statistics class inside the Wharton School of Business, surrounded by my fellow classmates and thinking how surreal it felt to be enrolled at Penn less than 2 1/2 years after breaking the news to my parents that I was not going to be graduating high school.

Ever since then, I’ve been a great believer that a person’s life can change with a combination of hard work, big dreams, and a little luck.

I should mention that before getting into Penn, I applied to 6 colleges all of which rejected me including my “safety school.” Only because one person at LaSalle University, a school I applied to with time running out, decided to take a chance on me did I even get into college and then I was finally mature enough to take advantage of the opportunity. I went to LaSalle for a year and then transferred to Penn.

That also showed me the power of one person believing in another. How lives can be transformed and future trajectories altered forever.

So now, as I finish my novel, I’m hoping once again for some magic that will transform my life. This time, thought, it’s not just me, I have a wife and three children.

I can also say that this pattern of altered trajectories has run in my family–my sister took 9 years to get through college (including being asked to leave b/c of academics at one point) and she is now a successful attorney who graduated law school within 3 years.

And my father, who has passed, might have had the most remarkable change of direction of anyone in my family. He went from living in the Stamford CT YMCA for a couple of years in the early 1980s to traveling the world as a consultant for one of the world’s best banks four years later. To this day, I marvel at the juxtaposition of having to sleep on a dusty tile floor and use an Irish sweater for a pillow while visiting my father at the Y, to five years later spending a week with him in London and staying in style at the Grosvenor House.

Miracles happen and lives do change. Even if I never sell one book, my life has been altered by writing it because I took the risk of stepping into the ring and taking my best shot.

Most Sincerely,

RC

Ghost writing is an honorable and very popular way for busy people to get a book written these days. Be sure to pick carefully by searching the Internet where you’ll see a broad variety of services and prices.

Evaluate the track record, qualifications and success of those books the ghost has written and insist on clear financial terms. Then have a phone call or video Skype to get acquainted, since you need to trust and respect whomever does it. Build in an opening interview to express your intentions for the draft on your computer, and also a schedule of chapter delivery dates so you can see it as it’s going along and approve the work.

Good luck.

But was told by associates, that I may need to find a ghost writer to help..and not easy to find one in my area that’s affordable . Where to I do a search to find all– as I think politics, non-fiction? Thank You.

@VernaPolitics