Two new entries are posted under the Read My Old Diaries tab. This week, 13-year-old Mindi is angry and complaining a lot. Coincidentally (?), 14-year-old Mindi is also angry and complaining a lot. Oh, the lolz!
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There is a Freefall ARC available on Goodreads for one lucky winner in the U.S.! The best news is that all you have to do to enter to win is click! And, I think, provide a mailing address.
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I have a new vlog! 1. There is a Dark Secret about my revising for my editor revealed.
2. We were going to include bootleg footage from the Silversun Pickups concert I attended, but it didn't work out. However! You can view the awesome footage here if you'd like.
3. Not all of this was shot on the same day. You might or might not be able to guess which parts were from a few weeks ago and which were from today!
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In a round-about way, I got two mentions in Publishers Weekly (an online magazine) last week. Fun! One of those is an announcement of The Contemps, the new joint author blog I mentioned in a previous update.
The second is that Freefall is listed in the Fall 2010 Children's announcements. (To read the listing, scroll down over halfway down the page to the S&S/Simon Pulse category. They seem to be in random order, but Freefall is definitely there if you look hard enough.)
Just like I do every Monday, I added two journal entries from my teen years to this site. You can check them out under the "About Me" tab on the front page by clicking on "Read My Old Diaries." This week, 13-year-old Mindi is preparing for Christmas by shopping a lot. And 14-year-old Mindi is back from her ski trip.
There is a lot of complaining about being sick of my friends in the latter, which goes along with what I'm always saying about me not being able to live with people. (Did you know that I always say that? Well, I do. My husband is the only person I've really ever been able to live with happily because he totally gets my need for lots of space and time alone.)
Really, though, this entry from February 1, 1992, is -- to me -- one of the most interesting that I've posted here. There is a lot going on behind the scenes, a lot of emotions and thoughts that I talk about, but due to the style of the writing in these journals, I don't make you feel. But I can remember that I was completely floundering here. Looking back, the "suddenly turned religious" thing might not have been as sudden as I thought. After all, my mom had been sending me to private Christian schools from third grade on. This change was not a welcome one for me and it still effects my life over 18 years later.