This week, we interview Jeanette Cooper, author of Desperate Choices:

eBookEnvy:  Tell us a little about you, your writing, your passions 

Jeanette Cooper: Like most young girls during my youth, my first writing experience began with diary writing. I kept a diary and wrote daily in it. It was my private world of thoughts—or at least I thought so until I discovered my siblings invading my privacy and reading everything I wrote. I was so upset, I destroyed my diary and not long after that, I began writing simple childish stories about things that I knew. When I was ten years old, I sent a child’s version of a romantic story, in my childish handwriting, to “True Story,” a magazine that printed true romance stories. I received the nicest rejection letter ever sent to me, personally written just to me. Even then, I wanted to be a published writer. I suppose personal goals set in childhood tend to seek their own destination toward fulfillment.

When my mother bought me a typewriter for my sixteenth birthday, I felt [ more ]