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Chapter 2 - Tick Tock

3/15/2013

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Yesterday I introduced my book to the world.  It was a scary day.  The part about putting something you've thrown your entire heart and soul into and then waiting to see how everyone would respond - that was the scary part.

I cried a lot yesterday.  Not sad, but happy.  Happy because people who have loved me my whole life and people who only knew me for a season jumped into my world for a little while yesterday to let me know they cared about this little accomplishment of mine.  In reality, everyone I heard from has done far greater things in their lives.  I strung some words (albeit a whole lot of words) together to tell a story, but the reality is, each of you who reached out to me yesterday have done some pretty amazing things with your life too.  And I think you are awesome.  I didn't want to let another moment go by without reminding you of that.

Today, things are more peaceful.  Online at least.  But I sold 46 copies of The Clay Lion yesterday (THANK YOU!), and today, a bunch of you are maybe, possibly, going to be reading it.  And that is terrifying.  And so I am not peaceful at all!  I keep thinking about you, out there, wherever you are, reading about Brooke and Branson and I am wondering if you've fallen in love with them the way I did.  I hope you have.

So here I am.  Waiting.  Waiting to hear what you think.  Waiting for you to tell me that I should write another.  Or that I should hang up my computer and consider needlepoint.  The waiting is always the hardest part. 

Tick tock.  Happy reading : )
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Chapter 1 - A Beginning

3/11/2013

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Today I became a published author.
(Breathe in, breathe out.)

I have always considered myself a writer.  I love to write.  As I child I preferred writing to reading which seemed backwards to me.  I kept journals growing up, filled with my secrets and hopes and dreams.  I wrote stories and poems.  Writing was always an outlet.  When something was wrong or if I needed to get my point across or express my feelings to someone, I found that writing things down always helped.  It continues to be my go-to therapy, even to this day.

Somewhere along the way though, I stopped writing for enjoyment.  There was so much writing involved in school with term papers and essays that it started to become drudgery.  And so I stopped writing for many years. 

Then one day, I heard about this thing called 'blogging' and everyone was doing it.  It required writing and deep inside of me a little sleeping monster awoke.  I started writing about my family and my thoughts on day to day life, and I threw it out there, into the universe for the world to read.  Sometimes I would write about current events or politics.  I loved my little blog.  And along the way some other people did too.  People began commenting that I should write a book.  Over and over.  I kept hearing it.

What they didn't know was that I had already tried.  I started.  I stopped.  I restarted.  I deleted.  Over the years, I had tried repeatedly to get something going in the way of a novel.  Nothing ever materialized.  It was okay though, because I already had a full-time job.  I was a mom.

The next thing I knew, my baby headed off to kindergarten.  And suddenly, I could not longer claim that I was a full-time mom anymore.  

It was time to do something.  
Anything.
So I did the one thing I've always wanted to do.

I wrote a book.

I hope you like it.  It's not really my story.  It's Brooke's story.  And I think it was one that was worth telling.  And I hope you think it is one that is worth reading.

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    • Middle Grade Contemporary
    • YA Contemporary >
      • A Walk Between Raindrops
      • Phoebe Unfired
      • The Next to Last Mistake
      • After Checkmate
    • YA Speculative >
      • The Clay Lion
      • Tin Men
      • A Straw Man
    • New Adult Speculative >
      • Among the Shrouded
      • Gather the Sentient
      • Beyond the Sanctified
    • Let Them Burn Cake
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    • Facing Fear Through Fiction
    • Fostering Kindness Through Literature
    • Educational Resource - The Clay Lion
    • Educational Resource - The Next to Last Mistake
    • Educational Resource - Team Canteen
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    • Critical Acclaim
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