Since I have finished my first novel, I thought maybe I would put a few blogs on some of its content. The title is "Into the Fire". It is about a sixteen year old girl whose life is turned up-side-down, the challenges she faces, and the mystery she is drawn into that nearly costs her the life of her newly found boyfriend as well as her own life. Here is the first blog:

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I hate her, Alex thought, as she kicked at the pile of folded boxes stacked in her doorway. I don’t know why we had to move here. Grandpa could have come to live with us in Chicago; there was plenty of room for all of us there, not like in this old farmhouse. How am I supposed to live in this tiny, old room, she asked herself, looking around?
Alex tried arranging her things in different ways, but there just wasn’t enough space for all of it. Her dad’s stuff was still in place from when he grew up here, and she didn’t feel right in removing it; she didn’t want to disturb the memories of him. The blue and white quilt on the bed, and the hand-braided rugs that her grandma made, were just as her dad had left them. She looked around at remnants of her dad’s life growing up in Pineville: pictures of him on the basketball team, one of him with his arm around his little brother Ben when they were just kids, and one of him on his pinto horse, Patch. His sports trophies for basketball and football were lined up on a shelf. When Alex picked one up, dust that had collected over the years floated into the air. She rubbed her hand over the worn dresser where her dad had carved his initials many years ago. His room told a story of his life, just like my room would have been all about my life, but now that’s gone, and Daddy’s gone, and I am stuck here, she thought.
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That's it for the first blog... any comments or critiques?