Lesson#41 Meet local Authors at the Library Night

This was great! I wish there had been a larger turn out, perhaps we will volunteer to be the PR person for this next year. It was a fun time to take Evie, aspiring writer to meet some other local writers. I didn't take any cash with me to buy books though, I had forgotten. Evie has some money and bought a just released novel by a young 18yr. old local writer, his first book, just been out a month. He was so excited, as you can imagine. He said he began his novel in the 7th grade, just like Evie, and just finally finished, after the millions of edits of course. She met other authors, the rest were much older. Some were great and answered all her questions, and I was surprised that she actually did ask quite a few! One author, a older man, was very condescending and told her "good luck with your LITTLE writing". Afterward Evie said she was going to mail him a copy of "her little writing" when she was published. Way to turn something negative around! Bellow is the cover of the book Evie bought, and the description from Amazon, she is reading it now.

"Tomorrow, at midday, the world as you know it will change." These words marked the beginning of the best and hardest time of Derek Jinx's life. He is swept from an uncomfortable existence and sent far south to a beautiful island in the mid-Atlantic named Calalini, where his trust is irrevocably claimed by his uncle Gabriel Grenth. With the enchanted properties of the island and its inhabitants called Drakes, Derek is quick to love the place. But things aren't as they seem... the boy slowly becomes torn, drawn by people from his past to the Nation of Lleh, where a near omnipresent Dark Lord rules in oppression over all of Calalini... The line between good and evil is far more complex than it so often appears, as the Dark Lord has placed many convincing spies among them. After a brilliant deception where two of their closest are lost, Derek reluctantly feels a call to action when it's revealed who his true father is - the Dark Lord himself. This pressure from his father to join him, the relationship he has with Grenth, and the love Derek feels for a girl that may never be is all culminate to evoke a quality of his character he didn't know he possessed. Slowly, Derek grows from a sixteen year old into his heroic persona, though rarely does he ever feel heroic... Everyone, including Derek, is forced to confront deeply moral questions about the nature of trust, loyalty, love and integrity. Through his coming-of-age, he must learn what it means to be a force for good in their stand against evil, but in the end, when the circumstances require it, he may have no other choice but to confront the possibility of sacrificing himself for the people he loves, and to something bigger than himself...