Inside a Writer's Life

Lynn has moved into the basement apartment less than a month and decides to give her Mom her first birthday party at sixty but an ugly thunderstorm trap them in and the basement start to flood. After five years she move to the three-bedroom first floor unit but with the heat shut off in the entire building she experience one of the worst Chicago winters ever. Her first book signing is in June at the 2004 Book Expo America. Two years later after disruptive non-rent paying tenants are evicted, her car is stolen but relieved to finally be out from under the noise and in the second floor apartment. "This is it, you can't go anywhere else, you can't get any higher." Her brother jokingly states that 4th of July. She gets discouraged and depressed but feel certain God has a special plan in place for her. This is only a fraction of what actually take place within 9 years in this gritty fast paced often humorous but intriguing memoir.