Summer is almost here which brings it closer to the upcoming football season which brings it closer to unleashing the whimsical characters in my book, Confessions of a 4th Grade Athlete. There are many valid questions that begged to be answered:
Why are we football-obsessed in the South?
Why do we love working out in 100+ degree weather?
Why do we chase an oblong leather ball around like our lives depended on it?
None of these questions; however, are answered in this book. Nope, for those answers you will have to look elsewhere, but in this book you can discover a boy named Nate and his quest to become a star athlete amidst the scholarly demands of elementary school. So I will be writing, blogging, promoting, reading and generally working pretty hard this summer. I am not sure at this time if the saga of Nate will continue or not, as the Attention Monster is apparently holding my imagination hostage as he sometimes did when Nate attempted to concentrate in class.
If you would like some insight on the crazy game of football, and how we glorify it, then here is my nostalgic summation of that all-important last game:
You can also see that Nate may closely resemble this young man who did achieve a measured amount of local glory upon that hallowed football field that holds the dreams and aspirations of the populations of both large and small towns all over the nation as we grasp the long and wondrous days of summer and watch them unfold into the promise of fall. You can also see that this sentence is much too long. Hoping everyone in WordPress Land has a great Memorial Day weekend for those who celebrate it.
Illustrations by: Corbin Hillam. Publication by Crystal Publishing, LLC
So are you going to be publishing here? Or is that a separate project? Either way, sounds fun! Can’t wait to read more!
Hey Marissa, the Confessions work will be published in book form, later on it will also be published as an e-book so I can’t publish it on my blog. I will be putting the characters on here and talking about them and hopefully a book trailer also 😀
Okay, well at least we will be kept in the loop!
Yes you all certainly will. Everyone will probably get sick of me going on and on about football, ha ha. I am also trying my hand at making my own book trailer. That alone will probably be a comedy show 😀
Oh, you mean on video? That should be fun! The CheeseBergens are working on a music video so I feel like we may be in the same head space. Can’t wait to see it!
Yeah, a video trailer for YouTube and the publisher. The technology may be the end of me, ha ha.
I know what you mean!
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Lana, best of luck with your book! I love the premise of it and already have a feel for Nate. Hope you have lots of fun amongst the hard work of promoting etc – I’ll look out for your posts.
Thank you Annika. I did have a lot of fun writing it so hopefully it will be fun doing all that other work also. Uncharted territory 😀