Are You a Writer? How Do You Know?

Mar 31

I've been watching a lot of interviews of famous indie authors and traditional authors. And one of the most common questions asked by the interviewer is, "Did you ever have any doubt about being a writer?"

And all of them said yes. Some even said that after they made the best seller's list they were still comparing themselves to other great writers.

I wasn't sure I was a writer until last night. And this after having published 6 books already. This wasn't what drew me to the conclusion that I was a writer. I looked back to when I was about eleven and realized that I was always day dreaming. I would even daydream in school the minute the subject the teacher was speaking about became boring.

I love to sleep. I've trained myself to take daily naps since I entered my twenties. They are a great source of my creative bank.

As I matured so did my flights into my fantasy world. My mind remained in a constant state of constructing an imaginary world where I was rich, or I had superhuman powers, or I was from another planet.

Even now, while just past 60, I can sit and stare at a plant and come up with a book idea. This would probably explain why, over the past 18 months, I have published 12 publications and drafted 180 titles.

Yes, I'm a writer. And over time I hope to become a great writer like King, Rowling, Carpenter, and Hocking.

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Stonecastle Publications

Jerrimiah Stonecastle

Born and raised in the slums of New York, he was raised by a single mom who earned her Master's in Early Childhood Development while working as a teacher's aide. She sent young Jerrimiah to the prestigious Power Memorial Academy for Boys, the Alma mater of NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He worked part-time after school to help his mom pay for his tuition.

He declined a full scholarship from Concordia University and joined the US Army and became a combat medic. He returned to New York upon his discharge where he was hired by the NYC Chief Medical Examiner’s Office as a medical stenographer.

In 1982 he joined the New York City Police Department. In 1983 he was recruited by the Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) as an undercover officer in their narcotics division. He finished out his career as a detective assigned to the Bronx Homicide Task Force.

When he retired in 2002, he relocated to Florida to pursue his passion for writing. After hundreds of rejection letters and reading Amanda Hocking's story, he decided to self-publish his own works. In 2016 he formed Stonecastle Publications LLC and has published 30 books so far. He has an additional 400 fiction and nonfiction novels in draft form in his company's literary vault.

On October 31, 2018, He launched his first horror novel "FRANKENSTINA" and released the sequel "FRANKENSTINA REBORN" on Halloween 2019. There are two more books in the horology.

On March 7, 2023, he received the Literary Titan Book Award for the apocalyptic thriller "A Flash of Light".

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