Life’s Letters

A Story of Publishing Perseverance

Sandra O'Donnell, Ph.D.
Your First Fifteen Pages
4 min readNov 28, 2021

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Carly Butler Verheyen with her book Life’s Letters

In 2015, I contracted with a writer to polish her story and create a proposal for a memoir. The story had everything — a stash of forgotten letters, two love stories, travel, and a London backdrop. It was a modern-day fairytale, that ended in a surprise wedding. The author’s story had been featured on the network morning shows and across social media. It was a publisher’s dream…

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Sandra O'Donnell, Ph.D.
Your First Fifteen Pages

Writing about life, death and everything In between. Reader of history, memoirs, and the stars. Looking for answers to life’s deeper questions.