#cecoburn

My book had been fighting with me recently. I just couldn’t get my main character’s motive right. She kept changing the reasons that she was going on her quest, and each reason was less believable than the last. I started to lose faith in my book. It seemed to be getting worse with each rewrite, each edit. Finally, I took a break, and did what everyone should do when things aren’t going right. I…

Do you know where you come from?

Genetically?

I won a writing contest recently, and with the winnings, I purchased an Ancestry DNA kit from Ancestry.com. My wife had this done about a year ago, and it’s really incredible. When the kit arrives, you spit into a small vial, and mail it in. A few weeks later, you get an online map of where your DNA is from! My wife (C.E.Coburn) is 36% Irish (among…