Last Friday, one of the people I connect with through twitter did a call for a pen pal. Without hesitation I quickly told her I would be her pen pal.

I have wanted to have a pen pal for years. I had one back in fifth grade. I remember her name to this day. It’s was Rachel. I forget where she lived, but my class and her class wrote to each other. Our teachers came up with the idea. I was a really good idea. I only wish I had kept at it.

Now that I have a pen pal in my adult years, I know that I will be more committed. My handwriting isn’t as pretty as hers, but I am willing to try to make it better as time goes by. She also makes the prettiest card stock/paper. She painted on it. That is a treasure in itself. I’m not sure I’m as crafty as she is in that department.

After my daughter saw the letter, she wanted to read it, but it was for me. It wan’t a bill or some letter pertaining to who knows it, what’s it. It was a beautifully penned and painted letter. We share a few common interest. My daughter now wants to have a pen pal of her own. How do I go about finding her one? Where could I begin to look for another 13 year-old that is wiling to hand write anything in this technological savvy period in time?

I hope I can figure some thing out. I don’t want too much time to pass before my child changes her mind. She’s a teenager and they tend to do that, often.

I will share what I come up with, when I come up with it.

Until next

Happy Reading & Writing!

For the last few months, I have had a few interviews done by various different literary people. If you want to find out more behind the scenes information check out the different stops.

INSIDE OUT with Jennifer Coissiere – Author of Crossing Over

5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Jennifer Coissiere, author of Crossing Over

Meet Jennifer Coissiere, Author of Crossing Over

Upcoming interview with LaShaunda Hoffman at SORMAG. Will post a link when it’s up.

Until next time,

Happy Reading & Writing.

On Sunday, July 25, the APOOO BookClub began discussing my debut novel. I didn’t know what to expect and will admit when my book was chosen for July’s BOM (book of the month) my heart did a little jig in my chest. I wasn’t sure what would happen.

But I have been tickled pink, if you can imagine, due to the plethora of ideas and interpretations I have been reading. I finally have the first hand experience of how it is to be an author and think about one thing as I wrote and my readers (yup, I can say I have readers) thought something different as they read.

One of my writing sistahs, and really good friend (yes, I can comfortably call her that) Genesis called me and told me her idea and her thoughts. Wait, I need to back up…she had been Black Berry Messengering me some of what she thought as well as the diagnosis for one of the characters. Yes, she got real serious with the book. I liked that, because really this was not a genre she would read. Her opinion matters to me. She really enjoyed it. That’s a great thing.

Anyway, Genesis called me to tell me she knew I was working on the sequel and wanted to tell me which way to take the story next. Of course it was just a suggestion. When I heard it, I laughed, not because it was funny, but because I knew my readers are going to be shocked and some may even be mad.

She even made a valid point of how I could work it into my current wip for the sequel. I don’t even need to begin from the beginning, I can work the idea into what I’ve already written.

I called my number one fan, my mother, and told her the concept/idea and she said NO! She wasn’t willing to accept that major conflict. She told me we need to discuss this before I can do it.

Well, my muse for this story has woken up and is ready for me to move the story a long. Who will be upset? Who will be shocked? Will everyone enjoy the sequel as much as they enjoyed the debut? Only time will tell.

Until next time
Happy Reading & Writing.

This past Friday marked the fourth week in my writing journey with my 6 writer friends. The second week into the journey we posted the first 3 pages of our stories in our online files, and we are an eclectic bunch of talented ladies.

I’m honored to be apart of such an outstanding group of people. Creativity is oozing out of each of our pores.

During these past 4 weeks, I’ve had some up and down in the way I have been producing content for my story. The first two weeks, I had a burst of creativity, then my life in academia decided to rare its ugly head and take precedent over everything. So week three focused on a 16-page field experience for my major.

Then week four wasn’t very productive either because of appointments and my in-laws being in town. Some where along the line I have written myself into a wall. There is a change happening in the main character’s life and for me the transition is not as seamless as I would prefer it to be.

Now I have to go back to the beginning and see how I can possibly incorporate the necessary things in order to move the story a long without the story seeming farfetched or unbelievable. For the next two weeks my goal is to get back to the frame of mind that I had when I first started this writing journey.

I will attempt to checking more frequently.

Until next time,
Happy Reading Writing!