Author Amanda Lauer presented her path to becoming a published author.
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Wisconsin resident Amanda Lauer saw her debut novel published October 29, 2014. A World Such as Heaven Intended hit the no. 1 spot in its genre on Amazon two months later and was the 2016 YA CALA winner. The second book in the trilogy, A Life Such as Heaven Intended, was published April 1, 2018. Both books have earned the prestigious Catholic Writers Guild Seal of Approval. Book #3 in the Heaven Intended series will be published in 2019. Lauer learned the technical aspects of writing as a proofreader in the insurance, newspaper and collegiate arenas. Over the last 15 years she has had nearly 1,500 articles published in newspapers and magazines throughout the United States, plus she is the co-writer of the movie The Islands, scheduled to be released nationwide in 2019. Lauer has been offered a contract from an LA movie studio to turn her book A World Such as Heaven Intended into a major motion picture. They are in the pre-production stage of that process now. In addition to her proofreading, copyediting and writing career, Lauer is an actress and is involved in the health and wellness industry. She and her husband John have been married 37 years, have four grown children and five adorable grandchildren.(from Full Quiver Publishing website)
Amanda described her journey from high school to Engineering major at UW Madison, to marriage and career as proofreader in the insurance industry, to marriage and raising a family, to writing career. The proofreading taught her how to become a writer. She ended up free lancing for a plethora of newspapers. When she started writing novels, she limited her newspaper writing to The Compass, publication of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Green Bay, and The Business News.
Coincidentally, I wrote for The Business Years for a few years when they began operating in Wisconsin. I wrote the Financial Column. That was the highlight of the publication, in my opinion. That, alas, is the only similarity between her writing career and mine.
Amanda described the challenges of finding a publisher for her first book. She was finally successful in finding Full Quiver Publishing. That publisher liked the sample of work provided, but advised her to write in "Third Person Limited Perspective." She did not know what that means, either. Google research offers "a method of storytelling in which the narrator knows only the thoughts and feelings of a single character, while other characters are presented only externally." That does not help me. But Amanda, obviously, figured it out.
Her next challenge is raising the $15 million required to produce the movie of A World Such as Heaven Intended.
She offered the books for sale after the meeting.
