Well, folks, we're just a few weeks away from the debut of Crappy New Year, and if there's a young teenager in your life, this may be the book she's looking for - a little bit of reality in a world filled with fantasy.
I am on the board at Kids First, where parents go to find help for their children and themselves during the tough transition from marriage to divorce, or from divorce to remarriage, or remarriage with stepkids involved. You get the idea. Visit http://www.kidsfirstcenter.org/ for more about this amazing organization.
My goal is to see adolescents talking more about their family changes and how they've been affected by them. Kids around ages eleven and older have a harder time opening up about this stuff. They think kids in "normal" families will think differently about them. Fact is, many kids at this age ARE going through some kind of family restructuring, and they need not feel so alone!
Crappy New Year is not so crappy. It's funny, moves along at a fast clip, and will keep your daughters entertained. Heck, maybe even your sons!
I will be talking lots more about this, my first novel, in the next few weeks. Website will be up and running in time for Holiday shopping!
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Saturday, October 29, 2011
WE INTERRUPT THIS MARRIAGE...
...FOR HUNTING SEASON
There's a photograph of my husband Jim, on our honeymoon in Arizona, holding a wooden plaque with these words eloquently inscribed on it. Yes, it was our honeymoon. Did I know what I was getting myself into? Uh huh. I was warned. I did it anyway.
After all, I'm a writer. Very soon, I'll be an author. Can you think of a more solitary occupation? We writers NEED to be left alone for a month (okay, so it's more like three) every fall to finish up those year-long novel projects. And guess what? Having a husband who hunts works for me. CRAPPY NEW YEAR will be published in December. MOURNING DOVE is 4/5 completed. That means I have only that pesky denouement left to write.
BUT... Okay, you knew this was coming: the downside. I feel I've been almost single-handedly been caring for our children WHILE ALSO trying to write. I have been running the errands, making the phone calls, planning the visits, taking the children to their appointments, playing cabbie, AND trying to get CRAPPY launched with some semblance of a plan...and while finally seeing Gracie beyond the confines of her not-so-happy home in MOURNING DOVE>.
Sometimes my brain surgeon forgets there's more to life than brain surgery and hunting...but September, October, and November are not the best months to remind him. A trip to our camp this weekend is not for fun, as I had anticipated, but an opportunity for Jim to pick up the moose he shot from the butcher and get the dock and boat out of the water. It's easy for him to forget - between trips to the tree stand in the back forty and jaunts to the taxidermist - that his wife has a bandaged foot from last week's surgery and could use a little couch time with her loving husband right about now. Besides, she won't be much help pulling a dock out of the water in tomorrow's forecasted snow and slush.
As long as I don't get writers block, this hunting season is nothing more than an opportunity. I just need to be reminded of that every now and then.
There's a photograph of my husband Jim, on our honeymoon in Arizona, holding a wooden plaque with these words eloquently inscribed on it. Yes, it was our honeymoon. Did I know what I was getting myself into? Uh huh. I was warned. I did it anyway.
After all, I'm a writer. Very soon, I'll be an author. Can you think of a more solitary occupation? We writers NEED to be left alone for a month (okay, so it's more like three) every fall to finish up those year-long novel projects. And guess what? Having a husband who hunts works for me. CRAPPY NEW YEAR will be published in December. MOURNING DOVE is 4/5 completed. That means I have only that pesky denouement left to write.
BUT... Okay, you knew this was coming: the downside. I feel I've been almost single-handedly been caring for our children WHILE ALSO trying to write. I have been running the errands, making the phone calls, planning the visits, taking the children to their appointments, playing cabbie, AND trying to get CRAPPY launched with some semblance of a plan...and while finally seeing Gracie beyond the confines of her not-so-happy home in MOURNING DOVE>.
Sometimes my brain surgeon forgets there's more to life than brain surgery and hunting...but September, October, and November are not the best months to remind him. A trip to our camp this weekend is not for fun, as I had anticipated, but an opportunity for Jim to pick up the moose he shot from the butcher and get the dock and boat out of the water. It's easy for him to forget - between trips to the tree stand in the back forty and jaunts to the taxidermist - that his wife has a bandaged foot from last week's surgery and could use a little couch time with her loving husband right about now. Besides, she won't be much help pulling a dock out of the water in tomorrow's forecasted snow and slush.
As long as I don't get writers block, this hunting season is nothing more than an opportunity. I just need to be reminded of that every now and then.
Monday, October 24, 2011
For One Night Only!
IF this first blog fails to inspire. I do hope to inspire, however, so let me start by introducing myself.
My name is Meg Wilson and I have written a novel that will be published and downloadable in just six short weeks. It's called Crappy New Year, published by Maine Authors Publishing.
Readers will go on a very realistic journey to Tess Amory's world. (I leave fantasy writing in the capable hands of my friend Cameron Rosenblum.) Anyway, Tess is thirteen and has just found out she is gaining a stepfather and stepsister in just a few short months. Since her father died just a year ago, she's hardly ready for this transition and can't understand how her mother can be so enthusiastic about it.
Her friend Ian, who has been living next door since Tess was in preschool, suddenly wants to be more than friends. To top it off, best friend Janie lied to Tess and has gone to a New Years Eve party at Kelly Stanford's house. Yes, crappy is an understatement, but things get even crappier before they get...well, you'll have to read it to find out. Details about publication and launch parties to follow!
I have been told that, since I'm already Tweeting and Friending, this Blogging is a piece of cake and necessary for new authors like me. I hope you will stay tuned while I find inspiring topics to share with you, mostly about stepfamilies and how to....you know....adjust!
My name is Meg Wilson and I have written a novel that will be published and downloadable in just six short weeks. It's called Crappy New Year, published by Maine Authors Publishing.
Readers will go on a very realistic journey to Tess Amory's world. (I leave fantasy writing in the capable hands of my friend Cameron Rosenblum.) Anyway, Tess is thirteen and has just found out she is gaining a stepfather and stepsister in just a few short months. Since her father died just a year ago, she's hardly ready for this transition and can't understand how her mother can be so enthusiastic about it.
Her friend Ian, who has been living next door since Tess was in preschool, suddenly wants to be more than friends. To top it off, best friend Janie lied to Tess and has gone to a New Years Eve party at Kelly Stanford's house. Yes, crappy is an understatement, but things get even crappier before they get...well, you'll have to read it to find out. Details about publication and launch parties to follow!
I have been told that, since I'm already Tweeting and Friending, this Blogging is a piece of cake and necessary for new authors like me. I hope you will stay tuned while I find inspiring topics to share with you, mostly about stepfamilies and how to....you know....adjust!
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