August 24, 2011

Two posts in one week on the “blog that nobody reads!” I am amazing even myself. I really do think it is fun to write on here and maybe I’ll look back someday and find it interesting and just maybe someone else will read it and find it interesting, too.

I grew up in a very small town in Iowa called Sully. It is about fifty miles east of Des Moines and is part of the Lynnville-Sully School District. Sully has about five hundred residents and I was lucky enough to be one of them once upon a time. This little town is so progressive it has a newspaper. In fact, it has two! Some heavy and heated competition going on there! In one of the papers called the “Hometown Press” they have a column called, “Where are they now?” I read about one of my classmates in this column and decided it might be a good way of introducing my book, FLITTY, TWITTY, AND ITTY BITTY  to the people who live in that area including relatives and former classmates. I contacted the paper and they were glad to do an article about my life and budding authorship. Now the really fun part of all this is that my ninety-four year old mother is an avid reader of the “Hometown Press.” She will be getting her copy in a week of so and will she be surprised or what when she sees her own daughter featured in the column? I could have told her in advance but I thought it would be a fun surprise. Hope she likes it. Even though I am fifty-something, (when you get as old as I am you are not for sure how old you are without doing the math and I was never very good at math!) my mother is still so proud of her children and I think it will please her very much to see my name in print. My oldest brother, who is a hometown favorite, has made it in the paper several times but I think this is my debut. Anyway, that is the next big event in my quest for author recognition. I think being recognized by the people you care about is the best kind of all. I hope the people of Sully will be excited about one of there own trying her wings in the writing field.  I feel a great deal of love and appreciation for the roots I have there.