Help a Writing Hoosier's Dream Come True
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Ever since she was in 4th grade, Sarah has dreamed of being an author. She spent hours writing stories about anything that popped into her mind.
And then life happened. She went to college. Got a degree. Got another degree. And then another. And then she went to work. But the entire time, her passion of writing never went away. And so, after having two children, she found a way to work in writing a book. And that book is going to be published by Strange Chemistry in Fall, 2014.
And as much as she would love to sit back and watch the book climb the Bestsellers List on the wings of fairies, she knows that even in the world of make believe, it takes persistence, effort and money to create a buzz around her young adult novel.
Persistence and effort she has. Money, well, not so much. She also has a plan that includes reaching out to independent booksellers, creating marketing pieces that will help readers and book buyers alike fall in love with her characters, and speaking at conferences. But this plan isn't going to be cheap. She's looking for friends, family and strangers to lend a hand as she strives to make her 4th grade dream a reality.
Here's a quick pitch for Sarah's Book:
Replay (Title Pending), a 72,000 word young adult ghost story, is Mean Girls meets A Christmas Carol.
Seventeen year old RJ always gets what she wants. So when her soul is accidentally collected by a distracted Grim Reaper, somebody in the afterlife better figure out a way to get her life back or heads will roll.
In an effort to regain her mortality, RJ pleads her case to the Angel Tribunal and is given two options: remain in the Afterlife's waiting room until her original timeline expires or she can replay three moments in her life and hopefully change them enough to create a future worthy of redemption. It sounds like a no-brainer. She'll take the walk down memory lane. How hard can it be?
But as she begins to change her life, this former Social Queen Bee finds herself becoming a social pariah and RJ begins to wonder if walking among the living is worth spending the next sixty years as an outcast.
The novel is all about second chances and redemption and poses the question: what would you do if you could change your past?
And then life happened. She went to college. Got a degree. Got another degree. And then another. And then she went to work. But the entire time, her passion of writing never went away. And so, after having two children, she found a way to work in writing a book. And that book is going to be published by Strange Chemistry in Fall, 2014.
And as much as she would love to sit back and watch the book climb the Bestsellers List on the wings of fairies, she knows that even in the world of make believe, it takes persistence, effort and money to create a buzz around her young adult novel.
Persistence and effort she has. Money, well, not so much. She also has a plan that includes reaching out to independent booksellers, creating marketing pieces that will help readers and book buyers alike fall in love with her characters, and speaking at conferences. But this plan isn't going to be cheap. She's looking for friends, family and strangers to lend a hand as she strives to make her 4th grade dream a reality.
Here's a quick pitch for Sarah's Book:
Replay (Title Pending), a 72,000 word young adult ghost story, is Mean Girls meets A Christmas Carol.
Seventeen year old RJ always gets what she wants. So when her soul is accidentally collected by a distracted Grim Reaper, somebody in the afterlife better figure out a way to get her life back or heads will roll.
In an effort to regain her mortality, RJ pleads her case to the Angel Tribunal and is given two options: remain in the Afterlife's waiting room until her original timeline expires or she can replay three moments in her life and hopefully change them enough to create a future worthy of redemption. It sounds like a no-brainer. She'll take the walk down memory lane. How hard can it be?
But as she begins to change her life, this former Social Queen Bee finds herself becoming a social pariah and RJ begins to wonder if walking among the living is worth spending the next sixty years as an outcast.
The novel is all about second chances and redemption and poses the question: what would you do if you could change your past?
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Sarah Schmitt
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Greenfield, IN
