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Chele’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Chele’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Chele Pedersen Smith
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in New Haven, The United States
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author:Judy Blume |12942|, Beverly Cleary, |403|, |11882|Erma Bombeck
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April 2017
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Four O’Clock is Hard, but it was Supposed to be Five.
She was persistent! That cute brat of a face, all eager eyes and whiskers. Bossed by her belly, her snout bumped our hands, shouting “Feed me; feed me now!”
We tried to train her to wait until five, but somehow her prancing, tap-dancing whines ruled the game. And so a four o’clock dinner it was… for eleven years.
Daylight savings meant nothing to her. "Time falling back” is hard to explain to a gold Read more of this blog post »
We tried to train her to wait until five, but somehow her prancing, tap-dancing whines ruled the game. And so a four o’clock dinner it was… for eleven years.
Daylight savings meant nothing to her. "Time falling back” is hard to explain to a gold Read more of this blog post »
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A Mash-Up Magical Fairytale with Twists and Surprise Guests If you think you know fairytales, Ashley Bundy shakes things up. (Just wait til you see who they stumble upon in the woods!) First, the gorgeous book cover drew me in. Then once inside, I di ...more |
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Love all the nicknames: Uncle Hunk is my favorite character and name This juicy coming-of-age tell-all set in Scotland spills the steamy tea! These 500-plus pages took a while to read but it was like prying into a diary written in jots and unique sty ...more |
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can a gnome play cupid? This is such a cute, quick story. I really felt for Hazel trying to live up to impossible standards. And i really despised her sister-in-law Eve with all her demands! She made me mad! Ugh. But hurray for Jeremy the landscaper f ...more |
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A Slow Burn Mystery That Kept Me Guessing It could have been anyone in this River Road "Redrum." (Read the last word backwards if you're not familiar with Stephen King's book/movie The Shining. haha ) A serial slasher is on the loose and the adjoining ...more |
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Hi Donna,Thanks for the friending and your interest. Do you prefer paperbacks or e-books? I feel more comfortable holding and bending a paperback--sacrilege, I know!--but my books are available in both forms.
I do have a new book coming out in the next week or so if I can stop tweaking it. The Pearly Gates Phone Company is completely different from the romantic comedy spy mystery, Behind Frenemy Lines. It's a creative nonfiction collection of spiritual shorts, featuring mini miracles that have happened throughout my life. A few friends have contributed stories as well.
One challenge of writing is finding time to do it. I've been writing since junior high but of course, life happened along the way, and my passion was set aside for schools, careers, and kids. A few years ago in 2013, we relocated for my husband's job and I had to leave mine. I didn't look for work right away in order to assure my daughter was settled, and then before we knew it, we adopted a puppy. I suddenly found the time to write fiction again. And it reopened a passionate identity that was lost a long time ago. I'm happy to embrace that self again.
You know the old adage, "Write what you know"? Well, it's the best place to start. And that's the first novel I started writing in 2013. It's based on a true story with lots of added fictional elements. It's halfway done and I hope it becomes book number three.
I also began seeing ordinary events as suspicious story lines. An automated call about a 3 am power outage got the wheels turning. At Disney a few summers ago, our hotel maintenance crew went room to room swapping out wilting trees for healthier plants. I knew it had to work its way into a story. I also have plans to refresh teen mysteries I wrote in the 80s. Especially one, in particular, that's based on an unusual event in my younger life.
I joke that writing is a starving artist category. So it requires patience. I'm just starting out this year, so I know it takes time. I'm grateful for readers, followers and friends on Goodreads. It makes me feel like I'm going somewhere. My favorite part is creating characters. And I'm excited to share them with the world.
Chele, thanks for friending me on Good Reads. Is it difficult being a writer and figuring out what you are going to write about? Will you have another book come out soon?
You are a new author to me and I am looking forward to reading your book.
Donna
