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Success
Stories:
Warren
Lang
It
was the need to express myself that drove
me to writing. My childhood timidity created a choke hold on verbal
relationships with people, and it later developed into a full-grown
social phobia. However, when I was by myself with pen in hand, I found
that words flowed much more easily, and it was then the yearning of
wanting to write a novel came into bloom. But my employment,
maintaining a home, and raising five children with my wife kept my
novel desires at bay.
And
then I retired and said to myself, "Now is the
time . . . I'll sit right down and write that novel." I wrote
one and sent the manuscript to enough agents and editors to indicate my
writing abilities needed a little honing before a publisher would be
interested. Did I say a little honing, huh? They'd say, "You have an
interesting story, but . . ." There were always the buts.
Disgusted
with myself and mad at the agents and
editors, I found the highest shelf on my bookcase and shoved that
manuscript up there, never wanting to see it again. I couldn't leave
writing alone, no way. So, a few weeks later I sat down again and
started a new novel. After two and a half years of writing, rewriting,
critiquing, screaming, tearing, and rewriting again, my novel was
published.
In
Search of Love and Glory
In Search of Love and
Glory was published by
Xlibris and is available through its website, http://www.xlibris.com. In
addition, it can be previewed by going to http://www.xlibris.com/warrenLang.html
and may be purchased through Barnes and Noble or Borders book shops.
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