Guest Post by JS Wilsoncroft

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My name is Jamie Sue Wilsoncroft. I live in Pennsylvania with my husband, two children and 3 yappy dogs. I have been a professional dog groomer for over 16 years. It wasn’t until 5 years ago that I started writing stories. I was writing short stories and entering them into contests on a Stephanie Meyer’s fan page on Facebook. The support that I got from the readers was overwhelming and soon I started my own short story page on Facebook.
My first story, Roller Coaster Love was a hit. I never tried to get it published, but I went on to write many other stories. One day, while grooming a dog, an idea for a new story came to my mind. This is the much anticipated, The Unfaithful Widow. People laugh when I tell them that I could never quit my day job. New story ideas always seem to surface while I am shaving the dogs. lol
After spending months, grooming during the day and taking care of my family and writing at nights, I finally finished The Unfaithful Widow and emailed it to Firefly and Wisp Publishing. Within a month, Fourth of July weekend to be exact, I got an email saying that I got a contract. It has been one hell of a fantastic roller coaster ride since. Not only has my brain been brewing up more stories, Firefly and Wisp has loved them and published them.
“Toothless” was my first short story to get published. It’s with the paranormal anthology, 13 Tales of the Paranormal. Soon after its release, another publishing company asked me to submit a story for their anthology. My story, “Dorothy” was published by A Cuppa and an Armchair. Firefly and Wisp also released a holiday anthology, A Home for the Holidays. This features my story, “Jingle Bells and Puppy dog tails.”
Not long after I wrote “Jingle Bells and Puppy dog tails” my brain began brewing another story, Remembering Zane. I didn’t have intentions of writing another story at the moment. I wanted to focus on getting The Unfaithful Widow ready, but this story kept popping back into my head.
Remembering Zane is a bittersweet romance story, that made me cry. I actually had to stop a few times and walk away to gain my composure. How sad is that? Lol How Remembering Zane came about? I kept having visions of this woman walking into a funeral home, smelling an eucalyptus plant. Tears were streaming down her cheeks as she faced the man she once loved.
Believe it or not, I usually only get ideas of just the beginning of a story and when I sit down and start typing everything else just kind of flows out and onto the screen of my laptop. I never know how the story is going to end until I get there. I truly love the ending of Remembering Zane. It brought me tears of joy as I typed the last paragraph, which was unusual because I always hate writing the last chapter of a book. I never want my stories to end. I feel lost, like I lost a friend when I no longer write about my characters.

Blurb for Remembering Zane

At ten years old, Bonnie Reese knew the minute she laid eyes on Zane Withers, that he would forever have a place in her heart. After years of dating, then finally going their separate ways, Bonnie always dreamed that eventually they would get back together.
But those dreams were shattered as so was her heart, when she got the devastating news that her beloved Zane had been killed. As she faced her worse nightmare of going to his funeral, Bonnie runs into Zane’s best friend Jonathan Wood. Little did she know, Jonathan has had deep feelings for her since the 7th grade. Now that his best friend is gone, will Jonathan have the guts to tell her that he’s loved her since high school? Or will he keep his secret to himself forever?
Author Links
https://www.facebook.com/loveisdeaf72
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jamie-Wilsoncrofts-Short-Story-Page/133965579992782
www.jswilsoncroft.com
http://jswilsoncroft.blogspot.com
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13389374-remembering-zane

Book Links
http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Zane-ebook/dp/B006UK4LGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325898414&sr=8-1
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/remembering-zane-js-wilsoncroft/1108162068
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/120432
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGf0FOrfegQ
Rating’s on Amazon
#97 in Short stories
#13234 overall