Curious as to what my first book is about? My first venture into book writing is a Young Adult book. I went with this after a lot of consideration…okay that’s a lie, there wasn’t much of a thought process. I have had a lot of different pieces of paper crumpled up and tossed to the side over the years. I always thought I would write a Mystery book first, since that is the genre that I read the most. The truth is once I was ready to write, my heart took over, and I instantly started writing about a 17-year-old girl. From there, my first book was born.
Right now my book is done and is in the process of being edited. I have people I love and trust reading through the book and telling me everything I screwed up. If you are going to pour yourself into a book, you need the people you love to tell you what you did wrong. I know some of my friends are thinking, what the hell? Why didn’t she ask me to read it and help? The truth is I needed to keep this to a very small group for my own selfish reasons. It’s not that I don’t trust and love you, but I couldn’t have too many people providing me feedback or my head would have exploded. Please trust me that it’s better for us that I did it this way.
While my book is being torn apart, challenged, questioned, and hopefully enjoyed by this small group of people, I am working on my website and putting together my second book. For now though, I have a very raw and unedited description of my first book. The working title is “All the Choices We Make”. Totally subject to change, because I’ve heard authors should never name their own books. They are too close to it. For now, that’s the title I’m going with. I always like to challenge the norm.
Okay, so here it is my short, unedited and probably filled with tons of mistakes, description of the book…
17-year-old Melissa Taylor has a great high school life. She’s a star athlete, gets great grades, has the most amazing best friend in the world and has had a few boyfriends over the years. She’s comfortable in her high school world, hanging out with her group of friends, and is trying to deal with the strong feelings she has started to develop for her friend Logan. Just when she thinks everything is crumbling around her because Logan asked out another girl, Melissa has a unique and interesting moment with Avery Kane.
Avery is the boy that everyone likes, but he is known to be experienced and only dates older girls. As Melissa talks to him more, they start hitting it off and their relationship takes a turn. Avery brings out something in Melissa that she never knew was there, and everything about her is starting to change as she explores this new side of her.
While everything is going great for Melissa, a choice to go to a party winds up being the choice that changes her life forever. In an instant she is painfully reminded that all the choices she has made, even the routine ones, have brought her to the moment where her world came crashing in.
All the Choices We Make is about true friendship, young love and how every choice we make, whether it’s big or small, has a lasting impact on our life. How our lives can forever change in an instant.
Hope you found the description interesting! Feel free to email me with any thoughts or suggestions- jennmctiguebooks@gmail.com
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