![]() ![]() None of her family or friends ever had cancer. And going through the ordeal with Shamus prepared Teresa to cope with her own situation.ĭealing with Shamus’s cancer treatment was Teresa’s first personal experience with cancer. They even had some of the same cancer treatments. She used a lot of what she learned from helping Shamus through his cancer treatment, to cope with her own cancer treatment.īoth Shamus and Teresa had relatively young and inexperienced cancer doctors. Three years later Teresa confronted her own breast cancer diagnosis. So she was particularly upset that Shamus would only live a year after treatment.Īs it turned out, the doctors were wrong, and Shamus lived nine years after his year of cancer treatment. Shamus was a big part of Teresa’s support system after she divorced her husband. The doctors told her that with surgery and chemo Shamus would live about a year. Teresa was divorced from her husband for a year when she found out that her dog Shamus had cancer. She was the number one best-selling book on Amazon the day her book became a Kindle daily deal, and her book was on the New York Times bestseller list the following week. They did a lot to promote Teresa’s book and they were real partners in the marketing process.Īmazon selected Teresa’s memoir as a Kindle daily deal, and that launched her to bestseller status. Sourcebooks is a medium-sized publisher that’s growing. She created a book proposal, wrote sample chapters, and submitted them to publishers until her memoir was picked up by Sourcebooks. She had three agents who were interested in her memoir very quickly. The traditional process of sending query letters to get an agent, and then having your agent sell the book was what she knew and was used to. Teresa didn’t consider self-publishing because she didn’t know much about it. She opted to go the traditional publishing path, because that was the route that she knew and understood. Teresa started a blog to keep her friends and family up to date about how she was doing through her breast cancer treatment. She found that her classes in fiction writing were helpful in composing her memoir. Her friends and family all said she needed to write a memoir about it, and so she did. Teresa decided to write a memoir when she and her dog both got cancer within three years of each other. She only switched over to nonfiction when a life experience happened that needed to be written about. She started writing fiction because that’s what she was reading and that’s what she loved. She began taking a writing extension course through UCLA. Later in life she was going through divorce, and she returned to creative writing because it was something she enjoyed in her past. Teresa didn’t have any free time for creative writing during her law school years. She never had anything published but she loved creative writing. She wrote from the time she was a child through high school and college. In today’s show, Teresa shares her inspiring story of how she went from an unknown author to a #1 NYT bestseller in a very competitive market, as well as her inspiring personal journey that sparked the bestselling book. Her first book, The Dog Lived (and So Will I) was traditionally published by Sourcebooks, Inc. Teresa Rhyne is a #1 NY Times, #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author. ![]()
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