Happy birthday, Kathryn! Had a lot of fun at your birthday party today!
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I got this email on Thursday and I forgot to post it:
Pre-publication readers, I heard that the publisher is shipping pre-publication copies of The Seventh Door today. Those on this mailing list should begin receiving theirs early next week. If you don’t get yours by the end of next week, please let me know. Bryan Davis SO EXCITED. I run halfway down the block each day at lunch/afternoon time to check the mail. Come soon, Seventh Door, come soon! Is it just me or does this scenario send mixed messages to you?:
There's a doorway to a house in a typical city neighborhood. There are Halloween decorations up: Two or three zombie-like, cobweb draped skeleton/ghost guarding the doorway, An evil looking jack-o-lantern grinning maliciously at passers-by and a creepy furry creature lodged in the bushes that screams whenever anyone passes, and yet, in the midst of this all there is a sign with the word "Welcome" painted on it. I don't know about you, but that seems to send mixed messages to me. :) I had a thought today. You know how people are always wondering why God lets bad things happen to us? Look at it this way. This applies to writers. When you're writing a story, why do you put characters through hard times or danger? Because you know their ending and how those hardships that you put them through will build their character and make them a better person and get them to where they are at the end. What if the reason that God puts us through hard times is because he knows our ending and how those hardships will build our character and make us better people and get us to where we will be at the end?
No fun having a stomach bug :(. I threw up yesterday and thinking I would be okay I had egg nog tonight. Bad decision.
Today Liam's Buzz Lightyear doll got stuck in missle mode and so we had to endure missle sound effects for the whole ride home from the library (like ten minutes). Poor Buzz Lightyear got grounded to the back porch until he could get his batteries changed:) He was still going hours later.
Read this poem, Selecting a reader by Ted Kooser by clicking the link. I love this poem!
Also, my mom wanted me to post this poem that I wrote. She thinks it's really good, but I don't really know, so I'll let you judge it yourself:) The death of a Child It's snowing for the first time (or I think so). Emma and Abby are ecstatic!
Giving Liam hot chocolate. Was that the best idea?
You know it's going to be an interesting babysitting experience when your little brother is running back and forth across the kitchen yelling a battle cry at the top of his lungs.
Sitting in the living room with a not-so-blazing fire in th woodburning stove, roasting marshmellows. Listening to Les Misrables, singing opera, setting marshmellows on fire and freaking out. Emma literally just started screaming. Love my family. So fun!
I'm sleeping in Cortez, Colorado tonight. We had another long, boring drive, uneventful, and unscenic. When we got to the hotel, I checked my email and found a pleasant surprise. I'm going to be the pre-publication reader for Bryan Davis' new book the Seventh Door! It would have come out on January 15th. I'm going to read it in two weeks. I'm so excited!
You know you're at least slightly obsessed with writing when you read your lucky numbers in a fortune cookie, 5, 7, 5, and you think, "Haiku!"
Haiku: A japanese form of poetry that contains a total of 17 syllables, the first and third line containing 5 syllables and the second containing 7. Yesterday I went through four states. Nevada, Utah, Arizona and California. We got to our apartment yesterday and I've swam in the ocean twice, the pool once, walked down to the pier and watched a few Duck Dynasty's. Our apartment is perfect. It has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a living room, a dining room. Our house looks out over the harbor. |
About Me!Hannah writes to satisfy her imagination. She's written six books so far--five of which need to be rewritten--and is working on a seventh. She ranges through a variety of genres, but favors contemporary YA, fixing broken characters. She wants to use her writing to change people and bring hope. She's currently going to college for Nursing and that takes up most of her writing time. She's a rather stereotypical writer, talking to imaginary friends, eavesdropping on people at the store, secretly being nosy, stashing herself away in her room with a paper and pen and chocolate and her teddy bear. She loves Jesus, the way the morning smells, her family of seven (four siblings), old movies, fairy tales, candles at night and helping people. She writes on another blog at nerdywriter.blogspot.com to hopefully build her chances of publication. My Author Site:Archives
December 2016
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