Greetings Urban Fantastic Family
My teachers would say I was opinionated and my mom would just say I'm just stubborn. But what was a vice growing
up became a virtue in adulthood. Through years of experience I'm stubborn about compromise.
In my early days of writing. I had the mandatory naysayers who didn't believe I was capable. You could ignore them and press on. But the most dangerous influences were the ones close to you who believed in your vision but wanted you to water down your message, take the safe and sensible route. My stubbornness prevented what
could have been a personal disaster for me.
They would have me be a carbon copy of the bestselling authors I so admired. Diverse Universes and characters would not be appealing to a wide readership, they told me. No one wants to know about a future with characters from backgrounds other than what was the status Quo. I came under pressure from my publishing house to compromise but even I knew that to do something unique,
to create something extraordinary often requires that you don't compromise your ideals. my work was blocked and I was told to write what they wanted me to write.
