Eighteen-year-old Kate couldn’t be more excited about finishing high school and spending the summer on tour with her boyfriend’s band. Her dad showing up drunk at graduation, however, is not exactly kicking things off on the right foot—and that’s before she finds out about his mystery illness, certain to end in death.
A mystery illness she is likely to inherit.
When your whole life goes from adventure and ecstasy to sad and suicidal, what’s the point? Not knowing who to love, and who to trust . . . where does it end?
The Problem With Crazy is a story about love and life; about overcoming obstacles, choosing to trust, and learning how to make the choices that will change your life forever.
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Why I Self-Published?
I am happy to officially be a hybrid author. My first book, Finding Home, was released through Escape Publishing, Harlequin Australia’s digital-only imprint in October 2013, and I was absolutely over the moon. Someone who wasn’t my mum thought my book was good? It was fist pumps and high-fives all round!
However, when I wrote The Problem With Crazy, I decided to self-publish. I made this decision for a couple of main reasons.
- This story is centred on a family coming to terms with a serious illness: Huntington’s disease. It was really important to me to be able to donate to a charity that supported this illness so I could feel like as well as raising awareness, the book was actually doing some good, in its own little way. I just wasn’t sure a major publisher would allow that.
- This book was/is my baby. I slaved over it for a solid two years, and put so much sweat, tears and even a little blood (that time I broke a wine glass during editing) into it. I wanted full creative control, and if a publisher had asked me to do something to change a major component, I would have cried.
Or, worse yet: if a publisher didn’t want it. Being so close to this book, I don’t know how I would have handled the rejection. - I like trying new things [insert saucy wink here]. Seriously, I think the publishing market is a very different place today to what it was even just two years ago, and self-publishing is a very popular option. As a freelance editor for a lot of indie authors, I wanted to give the self-pub route a try. So many of my friends were doing it; why couldn’t I give it a go?
Will I submit my next book to some publishers? Most likely. Will I ever self-publish again? Abso-freaking-lutely.
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As well as being a magazine editor for a national audited publication on pet care, Lauren works as a freelance editor for independent authors, and was a Runner Up Editor of the Year in the Publishers Australia awards in 2013.
Lauren is a member of the Romance Writers of Australia and is obsessed with words–she likes the way they work.
She lives on the Central Coast of New South Wales with her fiance and their two super-cute puppies.
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