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I've always been a writer, but I have to admit - I have never completed a full-length novel. When I was a kid, I would write and illustrate my own children's books. They are notable for their spelling errors and bad drawings. I still have most of them, but don't think I'll be sharing them anytime soon.
When I was 11 or so, I finished my first "book" - Elizabeth and the Mystery of the Old Box. I put the term book in quotes here, because it's only about 25 pages, so it doesn't even quality to be a novella. I still have it, but haven't read it in a long time.
About a million years ago (before email! before computers!), my best friend Heather and I started working on a sci-fi adventure novel. We'd type up a couple pages and mail them to each other. Then we grew up, had lives (Heather had a baby & several ankle surgeries), started working on our own projects, and The Problem with Tetra has never been finished. It's up to 16 chapters, but needs a lot of work. Every once in a while we talk about resurrecting it, and actually work on it for a bit, but we haven't touched it in three years. Maybe someday...
Currently, I'm working on an as-yet-untitled novel. It started as a short story in 1996, and I've worked on it off and on over the years. A segment of it, So Much for That, even won an award in the Georgia Writers 2003 Members Contest. I LOVE my main character, Jessie, her spunk and determination, her sarcasm, her humor. I feel guilty that I haven't finished telling her story. To read the award-winning excerpt, click here.
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