The biggest stumble was my belief that I couldn’t provide for my family and be a writer. I was afraid, so I decided to wait until I was 40 to try it. I decided I wanted to write when I was 12 or so, but I didn’t really do anything about it until I was around thirty. I suppose it depends on what we consider as the starting point. In 1998, I switched from bartending to motherhood, and in 2006 I switched from teaching to writing novels.”Ĭould you tell us about your path to publication? Any sprints or stumbles along the way? Somewhere in there, I started bartending and teaching university–both of which were great fun. I knew though that I wanted to teach and write some day, so I went to college and then grad school. I tended to be too curious for my own good, so I experimented with trouble. “The longer version–I grew up in Pennsylvania. Melissa Marr on Melissa Marr: “The easy version–I write I’m a mom and I used to teach.
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