Book & Information 13 Dec 2006 10:33 pm
Libby Fawcett
I use Eljay. I consider it better than all the alternatives, though to be fair, I have never used those. I started with Livejournal in 2001, and have been in love ever since. Very few of my friends in Livejournal-land are people I know in real life. Most are online people who live all over the world.
Another interesting fact about me is that I love T.S. Eliot. I had focused on him in a Creative Writing class in High School and that was that. My favorite poem is the “Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock.” It is all that is good in the world.
If you combine those two interests, you get Shana Norris. One of my first internet/Livejournal only friends, I added her because of her interest in Eliot (as well as Labyrinth, fabulous movie that it is), and we just clicked as friends. Shana is one of those people who has a lot of interests, and actually can give lots of time TO those interests. She knits, is a devoted wife, mother to multiple animals, works with computers, and she writes. Now is where it gets interesting. As a good friend of hers, she let me read her stories.
I would like to say one thing RIGHT NOW. Had I been able to buy EVERY SINGLE THING she has written in hardcover, I already would have. She writes in multiple genres, and yeah, it’s all good. Her first story that I read was a fantasy trilogy. I was left astounded at her writing skill. She has focused more on her young-adult novels, and those have been just as amazing and delightful.
She was finally able to get an agent, after much searching, and after much MUCH MUCH MUCH waiting, she FINALLY got a book deal. I say finally as such because seriously. These people had no idea what they were refusing. ugh to that.
Anyways, the excitement is that she signed a book deal for not just one, but TWO books!!!
In the Spring of 2008, look for “The Secret Blog of Libby Fawcett” by Shana Norris. It might have the title changed. But the girl in the book is Libby Fawcett. So you can BET that will be in the title. Also, Shana gave me permission to post a picture of the manuscript, (sans personal information). Enjoy the first page! Hehe
So when the spring of 2008 rolls around and we have a release date for “Libby” you can BET I will be pushing it!
Tags: eljay, fantasy, friends, hardcover, libby fawcett, livejournal, livejournal.com, novels, paperback, poetry, poets, shana, shana norris, shananorris.com, t.s. eliot, writing, young adult
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[...] I like others in the same blogging genre as Myracle though I have yet to read her stuff (think back to my blog post on Shana Norris’s new 2008 title Libby Fawcett, same idea). I need to do some research into Jaffe as I have not heard of her before. But she is [...]
on 29 Aug 2007 at 6:07 am 2.Book Embargo » Libby!!!!! said …
[...] you remember my post about “Libby Fawcett’s Secret Blog, you will remember that I have a friend who not only has [...]
on 14 Dec 2007 at 12:53 pm 3.Libby Fawcett said …
this a cool book and my name is in it which is pretty weird :] oh well i dont mind