Past and Future Projects #MondayMusings #OpenBookBlogHop #Inspiration

Welcome to another Open Book Blog Hop. Here’s this week’s question. “How many unpublished and half-finished books do you have?”

I have a short story collection I put together years ago that I called Just My Luck, with the idea that people can be lucky or not as far as what happens to them. I was about to send it to one of those contests in which the winning manuscript is published. Then, I made the mistake of sending it to a local editor I once knew whom I thought I could trust. Fortunately, she didn’t charge me much. As I was going through her edited copy, I found mistakes I knew I didn’t make, and I didn’t like the changes she made, though she included a note explaining why she made them. Since I didn’t have much time before the deadline, I gave up on it and haven’t gone back to it since. Some of the stories will be included in my collection, Living Vicariously in Wyoming, due out sometime this year.

I also have various poetry collections I put together in response to Robert Lee Brewer’s poem-a-day prompts on the Writer’s Digest website. The idea was that at the end of thirty days, I would have thirty poems for a chapbook. That’s Life: New and Selected Poems, published in 2014, was the product of such a month-long poetry writing challenge. I haven’t done anything with the other collections I’ve put together and don’t know if I will.

I have one other full-length poetry manuscript called Inhabit My Life. This is a series of poems in chronological order about events in my life from birth to the present. Once Living Vicariously in Wyoming is published, this will probably be my next project.

How about you? If you’re an author, how many unfinished or unpublished manuscripts do you have? You can click here to participate on your blog and read other responses. Thank you for stopping by.

 

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New! Why Grandma Doesn’t Know Me

Copyright 2021 by Abbie Johnson Taylor.

Independently published with the help of DLD Books.

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Sixteen-year-old Natalie’s grandmother, suffering from dementia and confined to a wheelchair, lives in a nursing home and rarely recognizes Natalie. But one Halloween night, she tells her a shocking secret that only she and Natalie’s mother know. Natalie is the product of a one-night stand between her mother, who is a college English teacher, and another professor.

After some research, Natalie learns that people with dementia often have vivid memories of past events. Still not wanting to believe what her grandmother has told her, she finds her biological father online. The resemblance between them is undeniable. Not knowing what else to do, she shows his photo and website to her parents.

Natalie realizes she has some growing up to do. Scared and confused, she reaches out to her biological father, and they start corresponding.

Her younger sister, Sarah, senses their parents’ marital difficulties. At Thanksgiving, when she has an opportunity to see Santa Claus, she asks him to bring them together again. Can the jolly old elf grant her request?