![]() ![]() Mostly for my own pleasure and allowed only a select few friends to read my stuff. This early rejection didn’t faze me I kept writing. I’ve been writing romance since I was thirteen and at fourteen sent this handwritten, completely unprofessional looking query letter off to Mills and Boon/Harlequin telling them that I’d written the best romance ever! Needless to say, nothing came of that. I figured the only way I’d get those perfect endings was to write them myself. After a while I started writing my own stories. ![]() I’d basically make up my version of the perfect ending to the story and when the book’s ending didn’t gel with mine I’d be terribly disappointed. I would read a book and halfway through I’d find myself drifting off and creating dialogue and scenes for characters (I still do that). Once I started reading romance that was it: I’d found my passion. ![]() I suppose I can start with the fact that I have loved reading since I learned how and a love of writing followed soon after. Well this is the “About Me” section so I guess I should tell you something about me. ![]() I never thought I’d ever find myself in the position of having a website in my name, but here we are. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() With the edgy side of Desir’s novel and the exploration of sexuality in the Tamakis’ graphic novel comes Julie Halpern’s The F-It List. The illustrations in This One Summer are done in blue on cream-colored pages, and they’re as outstanding as the story itself. This is a summer where Rose and Windy discover a great deal about sexuality and about not judging people before getting to know who they really are. ![]() Over the course of those months, the girls discover that life at Awago Beach is far different for those who live there year round than those who come during peak tourist season.īoth Rose and Windy are fans of horror films, and it’s when they go to the local corner store to rent scary movies that they first interact with local teens - and cute boys - in a way they had not before. Rose and her family are on their way to their summer lake house on Awago Beach, and it’s not long before she’s reunited with her younger friend Windy. Gannon is the horror movie fanatic in the story, and in many ways, her own life plays out like the worst kind of horror story - one that’s reality, rather than fantasy. Desir isn’t afraid to do dark and edgy with her story, which includes sharp depictions of cutting and self-harm. ![]() ![]() ![]() Article content ‘I started feeling like the last 20 years of my life had been sacrificed, and those are just awful thoughts.’ This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It’s a cluster of small headaches, and Johnson’s frustration will be immediately recognizable to anyone who has ever had to provide care for a challenging loved one. Once they arrive, there’s negotiating the use of a wheelchair, reorganizing the tubing and making sure that the poorly designed wheelchair isn’t interfering with their various medical and personal accoutrements - all while the long-standing tensions between mother and daughter threaten to bubble over. First, there’s supporting her mother’s weight while they gingerly make it from the house’s door into the car, then there’s the untangling of her mom’s oxygen tube, the folding of the walker. Early in the book, Johnson remembers one of her last trips to the mall with her mother, and how so much planning and effort was required for a simple run to Sears. Article contentīefore the death of her mother, Johnson’s relationship with her mom played out in tense spurts after more than a decade of caring for her ailing father, Johnson felt worn-down and depleted when the time came to look after her mother. ![]() ![]() Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]() |