When Fame Turns Frightening: How My Author Spotlight Invited a Sinister Shadow
Although my efforts put an end to the dozens of home invasions that had plagued my community, my neighbors stopped speaking to me as if I were the criminal.
The lesson? Get to know your local police. If someone starts harassing you, following you, or threatening you, record everything: times and places, messages, and photos. You may need them for court appearances, and some day down the road, you can write about your experience.
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Andrea Reynolds is a septuagenarian with about thirty how-to books under her belt. Her new project is APlacetoWrite.org, which she hopes to leave as a safe place to write for writers like her who have experienced threats of harm for writing.
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