The Author Guy Blog by Larry B. Gildersleeve (January 20, 2025)

29th January 2025

Hello out there

Welcome back. I often refer to the eleven years since I began writing and publishing as “my author journey.” Here’s why. It’s been exactly that – a journey. One that took almost fifty years to materialize.

I first realized I had a flair for writing when fulfilling assignments in English classes my junior and senior years in high school. Those teachers, and my librarian mother, encouraged my to pursue writing as either an avocation or as a vocation. I didn’t, and now all these many decades later, I can’t recall why I didn’t. Having said that, my writing skills served me well during my C-suite corporate career.

Beginning in college, I thought I wanted to be an author, inspired by the success of Eric Segal with his mega-bestseller Love Story that made Ali McGraw and Ryan O’Neil household names when the movie was released. I began journaling story ideas, as well as words and phrases that resonated with me, and I continued the practice until I began writing manuscripts in 2014. I wrote my second novel, Follow Your Dreams, as a means to publish a modicum of what I’d accumulated over the years and to encourage the practice of journaling.

In October of this year I’ll complete my 76th journey around the sun, and I intend to continue to pursue my God-given writing talent for as long as He enables. Mine is a journey without a destination. Thank you for accompanying me.

Until next week … Vaya con Dios

Larry B. Gildersleeve