Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

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Pushing that PUBLISH button is a big moment, and your life is different – for better or worse – from that moment on.

Writers need to get over the fear of publishing.

I was lucky, I started by writing family humor essays and my stuff was out there for a years on Facebook where friends read it and enjoyed it and shared it with strangers and encouraged me, so I knew what was funny and how to hook readers and how to get an audience to cry before I ever sat down to create a book. Still, pushing that PUBLISH button is a big moment, and your life is different – for better or worse – from that moment on.

I know each new story is better than the last one and believe it will be well received, but getting past that initial fear, worrying that…