Brief Author Bio:

Hi, all! For those who don't know me, I'm Betsy McMillan. And I know from years of experience how much effort it takes to write an entire book. I wrote my very first novel back in 1990. I had no computer at home and only a mainframe at work. So I bought a handheld, voice-activated mini tape recorder and "talked" my book onto tape, every commute, every drive to the store, every hour I sat in a parking lot waiting for the kids to come out of some school activity. Every day, I took that recorder to work and spent my 1/2 hour lunch listening to the recording and typing it into a document on the work computer. It took a year to get it all down in a file. And though that manuscript is sitting on a shelf, gathering dust, I have since written and published three non-fiction books. Yet, the idea of writing another novel in a month was a fascinating challenge. I joined NaNo in 2006, but other issues prevented me from finishing. I volunteered to be Lake County ML when I signed up for 2007. I managed to win in 2007 and 2008, and hope to win again this year. I have something completely new and different on tap. Hope you'll join me for another rousing race to the finish with your intended novel! - Betsy