Tales of the Southern Hotel - My daughter!
Okay, I’m a proud papa. My step-daughter, Stephanie, has been writing for years now. I suggested a while back that she gather the stories she’d written about Mary Lou, a girl who has dreams and visions that take her into the past of the Southern Hotel, which she and her family own and operate, and put them into a book. She did that. I looked it over, she looked it over, then she designed her own cover.
Those of you who are authors know that - if you don’t keep things carefully, they get lost. I wrote a lot of stories, attempted novels, and other things when I was young, and pretty literally all of it is lost. I didn’t want that to happen for Steph, so we went on over to Lulu.com and made a book.
Those who know me know I’m pretty dead-set against self-publishing as a career move, but this is different. One day she’ll look back, I think, and be happy we preserved these stories, written mostly when she was 15 and 16, in a format she can share with her own children.
These are very wholesome stories, and perfect for an audience of about 8-16. If you are interested in checking it out - there are both HC and trade paperback editions. If you click the cover art, it will take you to the trade paperback.
–DNW
01/19/08, 9:59 AM |
The cover looks really cool. And for what it is, publishing it this way is probably just the ticket.
01/21/08, 11:47 AM |
Yeah. This way she doesn’t have to worry about if it ever really does anything - but if she wants friends to have copies, she can send them to the “store” or buy them herself and give them as gifts…and she’ll always have a copy to keep.
Dave