Watermelon Summer
Thanks to all of your encouragement
(and to your bearing with my whining and complaining), my first work of
fiction is now up on Amazon! As you can tell from previous posts
on this topic, I'm not as confident in my abilities in this new genre,
so your kind reviews will definitely boost my mood considerably.
Watermelon Summer is a young-adult tale about an intentional
community that failed and a girl who refused to give up the dream. The
book is now available on Amazon for $2.99, and if you don't mind
waiting, you can use that link on Friday to pick up a free copy.
And for those of you who
are currently being scared off by the "young adult" part of the
description, take heart. 55% of young-adult books are read by
people over 18, and the
biggest demographic is actually among people 30 to 44 years of
age.
Chances are you'll fit right in. (Young adult is actually my very
favorite fiction genre due to its usual lack of muddiness and
willingness to tackle controversial issues.)
The rest of this week's lunchtime series consists of excerpts from the first couple of chapters of Watermelon Summer.
And to tempt you to stop back by even if you're not interested in
fiction, I'll be incorporating images from my past that made their way
into Watermelon Summer into the posts. Enjoy!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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