Mimsy Hale's Blog

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“Fifty states. Two boys. One love story.”

Jake and Aiden have been best friends - and nothing more - since the age of six. Now college graduates, they take a road trip around the USA, visiting every state in 100 days.

As they start their cross-country odyssey, jake and Aiden think they have their journey and their futures mappes out. But the road has a funny way of changing course. (- Interlude Press)

As promised, my first book review ever and it’s a review of Interlude Press’s 100 Days, by Mimsy Hale. (read also on Wordpress)

I tried to stay spoiler-free but I might have failed a little so read at your own risks.

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My heart is smiling ^_^

interludepress:

Thanks, Castro District booksinc! We were so excited to see IP titles on your shelves!

I spy a 100 Days in the bottom left! Eeeeeeeee!

Transgender Children’s Books Fill a Void and Break a Taboo:

Sam Martin was browsing in a Boston record store 23 years ago when an unusual photography book caught his eye. Mr. Martin flipped through its pages, which featured portraits and interviews with women who had become men, and started to cry.

“I thought, ‘Oh, my God, I’m not the only one,’ ” said Mr. Martin, 43, who started transitioning to male from female after he bought the book. “When I was growing up, I never saw people like me in movies or books.”   

Mr. Martin is now on a mission to change that. He belongs to a small group of emerging authors who are writing children’s literature that centers on transgender characters, hoping to fill the void they felt as young readers. His debut work of fiction — a semi-autobiographical story about a transgender teenage boy who falls in love with an older boy on the beach in Cape Cod — will be published in a collection this month by Duet, a new young adult publisher that specializes in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer fiction.

This is just AMAZING. So proud of my friends and colleagues at Interlude Press and Duet Books :)

hazelandglasz:

I recently acquired “100 Days”, by mimsyhale and published by interludepress, and on my trip back from New York, dived into the book (if only to stretch the feeling of bringing the States with me)

I expected a story of a friendship evolving into something more

I got so

Much

More

I’m not about to spoil anything, because I do want everybody who can to get their hands on this book and read it and get swept away just like I was, but Mimsy’s ability to woven relationship and feelings and her talent to describe internal turmoils blew my mind with every page, and I honest to God clutched the book to my chest when I closed it on its ending.

I know, for sure, that this is a book that I will read again after some time and will be just as entranced as I was this first encounter

“100 Days” is available online at Interlude Press’s store or on Amazon

Thank you so much, beautiful! I’m so glad that you got so much out of it :)

judesierra:

This book is a lovely emotional ride. Jake and Aiden’s friendship and relationship issues (as the book progresses) aren’t easy, and I love that Hale doesn’t make them easy, skip over the hard parts, or solve things in a way that isn’t realistic.

First I want to say that there is some stunning prose. Hale is so gifted, and there were moments I wanted to highlight just for how beautiful some passages and sentences were.

Second, I love Jake. I just love him. He’s kind of fucked up and he’s damaged and has a traumatic past. Hale doesn’t overdo this history, and she doesn’t make the escalation of Jake and Aiden’s relationship an easy out or solve for these issues. He progresses and regresses, which is perfect for me because that’s so real. I cried when Jake did at the end, because I really felt the catharsis and the pain he goes through.

I loved this book. Alaska was frustrating, but there are 49 beautiful states (I loved this trip).

Also, shout out to the cover artist, that’s lovely and perfect. 

Solid 4.5 stars, highly recommended. 

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

April Prism Recommended Reads ~ Congratulations Authors ~ with Giveaway:

interludepress:

Congratulations, Mimsy Hale! 100 Days Selected a Prism Book Alliance Recommended Read for April!

This is incredible, and means so much to me! What a wonderful end to my Wednesday :D

Among the authors publishing with IP, we have authors using their real names, using variations on their real names, and using pen names that in no way resembled their real names. It’s a little different for everyone, so we’ll tag this and ask IP authors who have thoughts on the subject to chime in.

istytehcrawk:

I see what you did there, Mimsy. I love it.

Given that it was ajdewall that inspired me to find my writing legs after a three-year long creative sleep, it seemed only right to make a respectful nod to her in my love letter to everything Stateside :)

My first ever in-person book signing! Sure, it was only one copy–but it still felt pretty darn amazing!

istytehcrawk:

Jake Valentine is a lucky man. He’s spending just over three months in close quarters with his gorgeous, ridiculous best friend, traveling the country and seeing the best it has to offer. That’s not why he’s lucky, though. He’s lucky because he’s a fictional character, which means I couldn’t reach into the book and smack him upside the head every time he was being stubborn or clueless or just generally frustrating – which seemed to happen quite a bit. (I felt the same way about Aiden at times, but far less often.)

100 Days is a story, in part, about making mistakes, figuring out how to put things right again afterward, and moving on to make the next mistake (it’s inevitable, really – being fallible is part of being human). It’s about getting closure for losses old and new. It’s about figuring out that it’s okay to need – to need people, to need space, to need a hug, to need a good cry. It’s about finally acknowledging the love you’ve felt for as long as you can remember, even though you didn’t recognize it as such (sometimes only by sheer force of will or a heaping helping of denial). It’s about the journey of life and all the pain, joy, and madness that goes along with it.

It’s about figuring out that where you go next doesn’t have to be where you go forever. As Hale’s tagline for the novel says, the road never runs out.

Buy 100 Days by mimsyhale from Interlude Press here.

And huge thanks also go to Misty for her kind, thoughtful, and insightful review!