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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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