"It's Time to Begin"

October 11, 2012
Wow, I am getting so close to publishing this! I have entrusted two of my very close friends to read the book in its enitrety as well as my mom who is reading and giving me real time feedback. I am fortunate to be in a class where I am forced to work on a work of fiction and receive feedback from a professional. So I am in the process of doing that. First three chapters are in his hands. I meet soon with him to discuss…
I am also looking into getting bookmarks made for the book…promotion and something fun for readers. If you are interested let me know on twitter or Facebook and we can make sure you get one :)
As I have said, my goal is to have this published by the end of the year and I am trying very hard to hold true to that. It depends on my pre-readers and how fast they get the book back to me. At this point, the book is about 350 books pages.
Besides waiting on pre-readers and designing bookmarks…I have been busy trying to come up with “faces” for my characters. This means hours of searching for a celebrity or someone who resembles my main characters. Readers will be free to make their own assumptions on what they look like, but as an author, I have a specific look in mind and last night I finally finished who I would assign my characters to. I am pleased how they turned out! I always said once I hit 30 followers on my Twitter or Facebook account I would release some names :) Trust me, you want to know. What I will do is release the names of my characters. There are eleven main characters in total, however, there are of course minor ones as well. Ones that are only mentioned a couple of times.
So here we go!
Bryn Woods
Tyler Wilson
Charlotte Wilson
Eva Evans
Jason McCartney
Peter Lutz
Marie Wilson
Christian Wilson
Ashton Blackston
Mike Blackston
Tim Woods
Lynn Woods