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My first response to this guest post - was "HOW DOES SHE REMEMBER ALL THIS? Then I remembered "oh yeah she is young and I am old. I barely remember anything past yesterday.
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Assuming you don’t want to hear my entire life history in his post – and frankly, I have no interest in recounting it since it’s pretty mundane stuff – I thought maybe I’d give you the timeline version.
Early spring 2008 – Husband makes an offhand remark that we should write children’s books, because “how hard can that be?” He proceeds to buy things like Writing Children’s Book for Dummies and never read them; I sign up for an online writing class.
After the class, I realize that I have too many words in my brain to write picture books. I move on to young adult and decide to retell the Cupid & Psyche myth. It starts out with the tentative (and horrible!) title, the Vengenace of Venus.
Immediately join SCBWI and decide I must attend the Winter Conference in NYC (a place I’d never been), if I was going to “make it” in this business.
Late spring/Summer 2008 – Buy a refurbished laptop so I can ignore my husband from the same room.
Give up all TV. Except True Blood.
Take my laptop to all my DD’s gymnastics classes on Saturday mornings. With iPod rolling, this turns out to be productive writing time.
Start sharing early chapters with a teen beta reader. She likes the crap I’ve written and I’m encouraged to write more! Crap fo
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By: Kimberly Pauley,
on 11/1/2011
Blog: Young Adult (& Kid's) Books Central (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
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Thanks so much, Shelli, for letting me guest post on your blog! I love seeing all the great reviews for Untraceable roll in -- it's so fun that our launch dates are close together. And no - you are NOT old. It took me some time to reconstruct that time line, I assure you.
oh -p.s. Nook and Kindle versions are now available ;)
Jessie, what a nice and supportive husband. How cool to see your timeline.
Shelli, thanks for letting me get to know Jessie more.
I'm so excited for Jessie and this book! It's fantastic to hear her full story. Thanks for sharing it!
This is fascinating--I love hearing about the journey of other writers. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Jessie and Shelli! I enjoy reading posts like this. They give me hope and inspire me to keep going.
Again, thank you both so much!
Thanks Jessie for sharing your story and how you decided to independently publish. Love your advice not to quit.
Good luck with your debut. Your book sounds great.
What a journey!
I love the cover. Good luck!
This was fascinating! Congrats to Jessie on all her hard work AND the release of her book. DESTINED sounds amazing!
What an adventure that as been, and it's only just started! Good luck with DESTINED. I love Greek mythology and this sounds like an intriguing read!