So you want to retire and become a writer? Here's some inspiration

For some people, retirement is a long-awaited chance to sleep late, relax and celebrate the joys of life without pressure or deadlines. A small publishing house called Light Messages reached out to Nancy Boyarsky, saying it wanted to re-publish “The Swap” and asking the writer if she could turn her heroine into a serial sleuth. A small North Carolina publishing house called Light Messages reached out to say it wanted to re-publish “The Swap,” and Boyarsky was asked if she could turn her heroine into a serial sleuth. After retiring in 2013, Duane Lance Filer spent a year writing a breezy book called “The Baby Boomers First-Hand, First-Year Guide to Retirement.” Toward the end of that career he wrote his first book, a semi-autobiographical novel about an aspiring young Black writer growing up in a changing Compton, a witness to white flight during the civil rights movement. Then, after retiring in 2013, he spent a year writing a breezy book called “The Baby Boomers First-Hand, First-Year Guide to Retirement.” Filer didn’t miss the train rides to and from work.