OMG guess what's here?!?!? Guess what, guess what, guess what?

You better believe it. It's finally here!


I guess the picture kind of gives it away, but yes finally Innocent & Young has been published online at the Teen Inkst Magazine.

Happy?  Excited?  I am too!
And if your emotions are none that I have mentioned I'm sorry this post may not hold much interest to you.  I try to be exciting; really, I do.

All you wonderful people out there, I have the link for you to read the story on the magazine's website.  Now, a lot of people have asked me, "Is this a short story?"  Technically this is a short story, but my parents always tell me that my short stories are "long enough to be in a book".  Hey, maybe that's why I'm making Innocent & Young into a book!  Ha ha, oh well.
Either you love it or hate it, but there's really only one way to decide for certain.

Read it here.
Thanks so much to everyone who has supported me with my books and other projects.  All of you who do everyday, when you can, or just once in a while.  It means the world to me and you inspire me to continue writing.  THANK YOU once again!

Sketching a Fashionable Future

I have at last finished revising my short story for the teen magazine.... And this story focuses on fashion.

Sketching a Fashionable Future
As I told you, I've never written a story --or a short story for that matter--focusing on fashion.  When the Teen Inkst Magazine suggested that I give it a try, I thought, "Well, what do I have to lose?"
And so I thought in this post I would tell you simply about the story and about what it was like for me to write this new kind of project.

The short story focuses on a young woman named Chelsea Staceys.  She is in love with fashion.  It is something she absolutely adores, and after all what is there to hate about it.
She has set high goals for herself to achieve, but they are not as easy as one might at first expect them to be.  I think that this story will be one that girls with dreams will be able to understand and relate to.
I should also tell you that this story focuses on a lot of matters that many of my pass stories have not --such as friendship, confidence, dreams, etc.  Friendship is can usually always be in any story, but this one focuses a lot on that because it is Chelsea's friends who end up having a huge effect on her life.... It is her sketches of designs that could very well pave her future or destroy it.
Set in modern times, Chelsea must find her confidence again.

If you read this short story I want to hear your thoughts on it.  I would not say it was a story that I fell in love with, but when I finished it I hoped that someone who has the same dreams as Chelsea had would be inspired to never give up.  So for anybody who ever had dreams about becoming a fashion designer or for any girl who ever wanted to become something more...
This is my story for you.

P.S. I'll put up the link for the story when it's in the magazine.

Fashion

Innocent & Young I have been informed will be published soon.

But in the mean time I have been asked to attempt to write a fictional story focusing on... fashion.  I admit I've never done a story --or short story for that matter--on such a topic, but I've got until August 20th to write away on thousands of paper to see if I can come up with anything.
If anyone has any suggestions, I am open to them.  Wish me luck!  I'll post more tomorrow about any success or failure I have.

Innocent & Young

You know what's terrible?  What's really, really terrible?  When you think you have your mind made up and then you don't!  Those of you who are writers know exactly what I'm talking about.  And here I am really mainly talking about the factor that I had my Nano book selected and now I'm thinking of another book that maybe I should do for Nano instead.
Someone please give me an opinion?

Innocent & Young

She had to learn to rule a kingdom that could very well fall apart at any time.

Innocent & Young is the story about a young girl who has to take over the throne before she has even lived through her childhood.  Lela becomes Queen and has more problems to deal with than one should ever have to.  She's only eighteen when her father's enemies, the Klecks, come back into her life to threaten it once more and to destroy the kingdom her father spent years building.

Telling the story from how she sees it is Kym, Lela's advisor and closest friend.

Can Lela rule a kingdom that is falling apart?  Is there any hope?  Can she handle all the responsibilities and stay true to who she is or will she lose herself entirely in all of the madness? 

You can read the short story that I made of this on IP here but the story is going to change entirely is I chose to do it for Nano, since you have to start Nano stories in November anyhow.  I'm interested in your thoughts, whether you read the summary and the short story or just the summary.  Remember the other book I was going to do for Nano was STRONGER.  Seeing as I cannot do both, I am in desperate need of opinions here.

I should also mention that the short story is soon to be published in the teen magazine that Forever Live the King was published in.  I'll post up the link when it's in there!

Thanks to any who give their opinion.

Great news!

I found out that the magazine I'm published in is only for online view, however...
The girl running it told me that I could become part of the writing staff, which would be I could get way more involved in the magazine and even put more work into it.  I am really excited about this now, but keep in mind that I may be back to ask you guys for your opinion about some more of my stories.

Also, I am interviewing Julie Musil first for the writing interviews.  I'll have her interview up when I get a reply back from her. Remember if you're interested to let me know.

Forever Live the King published in the magazine!

Forever Live the King
I just wanted to stop in to tell you guys that Forever Live the King got published in the Teen Inkst Magazine.  You can read the story for yourself there and even leave me a comment to tell me your thoughts on it.  As you guys can imagine and understand, I am very happy that the story got published in this magazine nonetheless.
Read the story.
Also, I've just re-edited the story on IP because I did not put in the revisions on there before when I did them yesterday.  Read it on Inkpop.
Thanks to everyone who was as excited as me with this, and for everyone giving me confidence.

Forever Live the King

Do you want to read a story about King Arthur?  Do you want to hear a story that is different from the others?
I like those kinds of stories as well, which is exactly why I chose to submit Forever Live the King to the Teen Inkts Magazine.  Forever Live the King has familiar characters that any King Arthur fan would recognize, such as

• King Arthur Pendragon
• Mordred
• Merlin
• Sir Lancelot
• Morgan le Fay

And many more.  While it is a short story and had to be kept brief because of that, I felt confident when I submitted it because a lot of people on IP who read it said they liked the new twists and turns in the story.

Now I am going to check my email to see if there is any news from the magazine yet.

I'll keep you updated!