WOW: How did you deal with rejection and nay-sayers? What advice would you give other authors as far as overcoming objections and rejection? But if there’s a story in you that needs to come out, it’s all worth it.

Sometimes, I laugh the next day when I can see the moment I fell asleep and my pen made several loops before going off the page. Then after they’ve all gone to their rooms, my teapot comes out with my phone on “I heart radio” and I WORK. I work, too, so I try to be present after school and after dinner, but people start winding down, playing video games or talking on the phone, and I get out my work. Someone else, or several others, are needed to take up the slack. People all make sacrifices in a big family like mine. Not always when it’s leftover night AGAIN, or the house is a crime scene, and Mount Laundrymore has taken over the hallway, but that’s okay. It’s like my daughter’s theater, or my son’s music, or another child’s art, it’s my passion. I have to communicate how important this goal is to me. Jenn: I have 5 children and a husband who all need me in some form or other. WOW: How do you find time to write when you have a family and busy schedules? How do you articulate your author needs to your family so they understand how important it is for you to concentrate? Advice for others? Aim all this toward your genre’s audience. Not only announce, but ask for readers, reviewers, have giveaways and contests. Gather your followers, show them who you are, tell them about your book, and when it comes out, announce it. Especially in the YA market, where teens can sense falsehood from a mile away. You must excite them, build relationships with your followers and be honest about who you are. To gain exposure for your book and garner interest from your desired audience. Jenn: Social media is used by most authors, I believe, to begin a platform. WOW: What role does social media play in your marketing plan for The Key of F? Do you have advice for other authors when it comes to social media, marketing themselves, etc.? Most of this is done after 9pm, when my family settles down for bed. So I plan an outline of sorts, but I also write by the seat of my pants as I go through it, sometimes shuffling the cards or adding/ripping them out. Then I just write, using my prompts, until I reach the next card and flip through them as I go. I am a “plantser.” I plan out my story by writing a scene or a piece of dialogue on each index card, then I put them in order and use a ring to hold them together. I work on paper first, then type it into my computer.

I have a massage chair and everything I need there.

So tell us, what is your writing process and how do you make time for it? Do you have a space that inspires you? WOW:First of all congratulations on your forthcoming novel, The Key of F! You are one very busy lady and apparently you are unstoppable.

The Key of F by Jennifer Haskin