In the meantime, she also attended in person and online writing courses, entered contests and attended workshops. She got the manuscript from her drawer and since it was just the first draft set about making it better. She had always loved to write and thought it would be better if she took a crack at it. They would molest her while in boring meetings and while she was stuck in traffic going home or to work.īut it was only when she had a health scare that her perspective changed. However, the characters and the story she had in her head refused to take a break. At the time, she thought nobody would want to read about a middle aged woman who had to work with some really evil people. She first started writing and then put her manuscript away for seven years. It would take thirteen years from first draft to publication, which is quite a long time. Morris had quite the journey to publication that should be an encouragement and inspiration to other writers. She specifically explores the themes of what we call family and how that came to be. She would later on take some of the themes from “All Her Little Secrets” from this incident. It was an incident that stayed with her for several months. What was surprising was that almost everyone at the company went back to normal soon after leaving Wanda mortified. Someone in the department had dropped down and died in inexplicable circumstances. It was at this last organization that she found the inspiration for her debut novel.
Nonetheless, it was not all doom and gloom as there were some organizations she worked for that treated their employees as family. These were toxic places where the value of people of color and women were underestimated by the management. One of the most important of these was her experience working in the legal departments of the typical American company. Morris was inspired to write her novel by several things in her life. The married mother of three currently makes her home in Atlanta Georgia, where she lives with her children. She is active in the writing community and is a member of Crime Writers of Color, Mystery Writers of America and Sisters in Crime. In her attempt to become an author, she attended the Robert McKee Story Seminar, and the Yale Writers Workshop. She established this when she was Association of Corporate Counsel President of the Georgia chapter. She is the founder of the “Women’s Initiative,” the signature female empowerment. Given her long career, she has become an accomplished leader and presenter of ideas. In her previous job as a corporate attorney, she worked in the legal departments of several Fortune 100 companies in the United States. Wanda is a corporate attorney but she is best known for her debut novel “All Her Little Secrets.” Morris is a bestselling author that Karin Slaughter called a welcome and vibrant new voice in the thriller genre.
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