Approaching Events

This weekend, I am attending the Readers' and Writers' Round Table event in Salado, TX, and I get to make a 5-10 minute speech about Young Falcon and sign books. Yay! I'm not so excited about the speech, especially since I'm going first, but personally, I love signing books :D There are going to be 9 other authors there, including two other sci-fi/fantasy writers. One of those is Elizabeth Moon, who has written lots of books and won awards and all that. I think she writes high fantasy, which are the fantasy stories that have all the weird names with apostrophes and plots that are extremely confusing and strange, so it'll be interesting to meet her. I don't know who the other fantasy author is...but I think her name's Karen. Anyway, I'll be sure to follow up with all the details of this event :)

    And then my school is having a book fair next week, so my mum is going to man a table where kids can order Young Falcon and give her the money. I seriously hope I can somehow get out of class to help her o.O And hopefully, I'll sell quite a few at these events! I think we're...sort of nearing half-way on making up what we spent on printing the books, so that's good. Please, please, please keep praying for the success of Young Falcon and that all of these upcoming events will go well! I really appreciate all the support y'all have been giving me; it's fantastic to have friends like y'all!!

    Also, congrats to PG13 for reaching 100 pages on her book!! So proud of you; keep it up!! :D

Book Four is Well Under Way

I'm currently on page 59 of Book Four, and it's going swimmingly :} I'm really loving this one so far; it's by far my best work (except for a few parts in Book Three which I'm quite fond of) and so I think it will be the most intense book to date. Big things are definitely going to happen in this book, and while the pace is a bit slow, it's certainly not lacking in important content. One of the twins even gets his first kiss in Book Four, and I'm REALLY looking forward to that :D Of course, that's a lighter moment ... one of the few. This book is, like I said, far more intense (and darker) than the previous three. Fun stuuuuufff!!!! :D I can't wait for y'all to read it! 

    Hope you had a great weekend, and hope your week is spectacular! :}

BCA Book Signing = Success!

I had a book signing/interview at the school that shares my church campus, and I sold 35 books! It was a ton of fun, even though I'm completely exhausted and will probably sleep until, like, 10:00 tomorrow ;) I got to leave school during 4th period today, and my mom and I ate at Wendy's and then drove to my church. I signed 19 books (which had been pre-ordered and therefore got special treatment ;) ) while we waited for the interview to start at 2. Then Polly, the school's librarian, took me into this large room where the kindergarten-4th graders were waiting. She introduced me and asked me questions such as:

- Do you like spelling and grammar? (and, Do you think it's imporant?)

- What was your favourite book as a kid?/Who is your favourite author?

- How long did it take to get published?

- How did you come up with the idea for the story?

- Is this the first book you've ever written?

- How many books are going to be in this series?

and other such questions. After 30 minutes of us talking, the little kids asked me questions, then I went outside and sighed books, then came back in and repeated the process with the 5th-7th graders, which had slightly different questions, as they're older. I signed more books after that, and then did a third interview with some parents who had home-schooled kids ... And then finally, at about 4:45, got to go home. Whew. Fun (and tiring) stuff. I'm so glad I got to do this, though; it was a wonderful experience, and I'm so thankful God allowed so many books to be sold!

    Have a great weekend, y'all!!!! :D