Speaking of authors!

Wow, a young lady (at least she was a young high schooler when I last saw her) has just had her first book published. It is coming out next month and I have already ordered my copy...I wonder if I can get her to sign it for me?? This young lady was a friend of my youngest daughter Jennifer or as she was known in high school, Fern. Fern and Sarah are the same age and are about 30 years old now. My daughter Fern has four children and Sarah is working on her 7th! I always thought that Sarah was a beautiful and talented girl, I just never realized how talented. I am so thrilled for her. I have read several reviews of her book and it sounds great. I am attaching a couple of reviews if you are interested. Her book is called "Lightening Tree" and her name is Sarah Blackham Dunster. Just click on the highlighted names and you will be forwarded to two reviews. I can't wait to read her work(s). One thing I can say...she takes all my excuses away. She has 7 kids, I have none (at home anymore), she is much busier than I could imagine, yet she writes! I am really thrilled and awed by her accomplishments. I look forward to watching her succeed.

My five year old granddaughter Zoe wrote her first book! Maybe we will be a family of writers/authors!!

"The Book of Life" by Zoe Gillice (she's the one in the picture-in a green top)

My life is love My life is clovers My life is reading My life is balloons My life is batteries My life is fixing things My life is acorns My life is squirrels Our life is Earth [because we ALL live on Earth...duh] My life is Planets My life is dogs My life is cats

My granddaughter wants to be a writer also.

Hi friends and family, I want to be an author, as many of you know. Well, I also have a granddaughter who wants to be an author. She spends much of her free time either reading or writing. She is 11 years old and in the 5th grade here in Sandpoint, Idaho. She loves to read a series of books written for children called The Warriors (author: Erin Hunter). These books are about cats who live in clans and have various adventures. She has read the whole series of books and so now has begun to write her own. She has written many interesting chapters and has now written her first poem. I want to share it with you. You would understand it better if you had read the books but I still think you will agree that it is very good.

Why can't he love me? by Jordan age 11

Why can't he love me? Why won't he look at me? Why can't he make me look normal? Why do people laugh at me? Why won't anyone help me? Why won't he help me? Why can't people care about me? Why do kits look scared when they see me? I know why. He can't love me because he is one of the three. He won't look at me because he is scared of falling in love again. He won't make me look normal because he can't do anything about it. People laugh at me because I am half kitty-pet. No one will help me because they heard rumors that aren't true. He won't help me because he has a life up ahead of him. No one cares about me because I fell in love with a Thunder-clan cat. Kits are scared of me because they heard stories about me that aren't true. I am Grayfeather and I am alone.

poem by Jordan (or Snowear123) Things you might not know... Thunder-clan is a group of cats. Their group is called "Thunder-clan". One of the Three - three cats that have power. Their names are Lionblaze (fights really hard and never gets hurt), Jayfeather (walks into other cat's dreams, and see's what other cats think, also he is blind) and Dovewing (hears very, very far away) Grayfeather - Me!!