Text Box: Susan Shay Text Box: Home            About Susan            Cowboy Excerpt            Manuscripts            Ah-hah!            Blog    Text Box: I blame Linda Howard's MACKENZIE'S MOUNTAIN, for changing my life. During a difficult period, a friend handed me a well-worn copy of this book, and while romance novels weren't anything new since I'd grown up reading my mother's Barbara Cartlands, I was able to escape, if only for a few hours. I wanted to make that kind of magic. I wanted to trade my sucky life for one where a happy ending was guaranteed. I wanted to see my name in print other than in the newspaper City Bits. So I started writing on a legal pad, then spiral notebook, and finally a computer with a dot matrix printer! Six months later I had what I thought was the next bestseller! Move over Linda, Nora and Danielle! Ha! The form rejection from Harlequin--on my birthday no less--humbled but didn't discourage me. I had done something that a lot of people only talk about--I'd written a book--a poorly crafted one to be sure.  However, I was a romance writer!    Margaret E. Reid www.margaretereid.com From the Shadows, The Wild Rose Press, on sale now. Cinderella’s 2nd Marriage, The Wild Rose Press, Coming Soon!