I started writing Maternal Secrets approximately five years ago. One of the reasons it took me so long to write it was because I was weighed down by what other people would think about my writing. I was consumed with what my pastors at the time, past church friends and others in my Christian community would say. I found that I was using a lot of clichés that people who don’t go to church and are not indoctrinated into church social culture would know nothing about. I even altered the story line. The funny thing is after numerous re-writes and peeling back the layers of the story, I found myself back to the original story that I believe I was destined to write.

So now with book two, Maternal Instincts, I have decided to take the limits off. If I want my writing to transform as well as entertain readers I…