A Change Would Do You Good

By Sean McKissack

Love can overcome many obstacles. But can Spencer Logan let his heart lead him past the shocking news he is told about Skylar, a girl who has captured his interest?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sean McKissack
• Release date: May 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463763605

Sean McKissack

I like to read and write about unique situations and take the road less traveled with my characters. A lot of my stories are based on real life situations, skewed just a bit to protect the innocent as well as the guilty parties involved. I devote a lot of my time to characters, usually fleshing out everything that could possible be said about them so they are almost like friends (or close acquaintances).

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A Change Would Do You Good

By

Sean McKissack

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A Change Would Do You Good

Written by Sean McKissack

© 2003-2020

Cover photo by Tiffany Ording

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

Soak Up the Sun

Steve McQueen

All I Wanna Do

Light in Your Eyes

Every Day Is a Winding Road

Strong Enough

If It Makes You Happy

My Favorite Mistake

The First Cut is the Deepest

Crash and Burn

Safe and Sound

Anything but Down

Picture

Sweet Child o’Mine

Beware of Darkness

I Shall Believe

Soak Up the Sun

A writer is only content twice in their life: When they first think of a story idea and when they receive a check for the book sales.

Unless they’re writing a series; and then it becomes a never-ending Catch-22 of idea beget idea, but it’s needed on page three hundred of book four and not on page ten of the second chapter of book two. That was my life for three years. It was my fault to begin with. I mean, I titled the series Four Seasons of Love with the first book called Autumn Amore.

Its success was a surprise to me. I mean, what should a sixteen-year-old expect when he submits his manuscript with what must read as a groveling letter to several publishers? One waits in anticipation for two weeks but after not hearing back, one moves on to the second installment: Winter Wanderlust. I was only partway through it when I received an e-mail from the publishing house.

I admit, I didn’t want to open the e-mail for the obvious reason: they obviously hated it and would go on a line by line diatribe about how sappy and poetic the writing was and how no one would want to read about happy, go-lucky characters who would never have a rainy day and slept on beds laden with fresh rose petals each morning.

I took a deep breath when I opened the e-mail and waited for my heart to drop into that black pit of despair: Mr Spencer Logan, Thank you for your submission-

I could have just stopped reading there as it was the beginning of a form letter I had seen a few times already. Maybe this one would be friendlier. Maybe, they would just say: we wish you the best of luck to you in the future. Please don’t include us.

But instead, the next line screamed:

"I loved your work!"

Flash forward and that publisher rode with me through the rocky starts of the first and second book releases, followed by a small book tour. Then, the third book, Springtime Serenade dropped onto the masses and for some reason it became immensely popular due to an actress who name-dropped it on Twitter. The first two books were re-released with newer covers that embraced a more sexual context then what was on the pages but, people were buying them, so I had no complaints.

Until a year later.

Three hundred and sixty-six days later and I found myself looking over notepads, scanning outlines, and searching for snippets on my hard drive to try and write the fourth book and nothing was coming to me. Well, that’s not exactly true, things were coming to me, but they were not within the same genre, time or planet as my current series. I had, maybe, three pages of an actual story and those three pages were used as the teaser on my author’s page. Read an excerpt from the conclusion of Seasons of Love: A Sweet Summer Song

I didn’t have writer’s block, more like writer’s brick and mortar wall as I poured all my ideas into my mental blender and pushed the purée button. Several hours later, I had just three pages of description and hyperbole. The words were so syrupy-sweet I felt I would to have a forward written by Wilford Brimley. It came time to step away as I didn’t want to write something just to receive a large royalty check.

I spent time away from my computer and more on my school work and my attempt to get re-acquainted with people my own age: my peers who thought I forgot about them as I took a vacation from school for a few months; and by that, I meant I had dropped out to pursue the dream.

My parents were happy with the royalty checks but were disappointed that I had quit school to give it all I had. So, we decided I would enroll in classes at