As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably, for your participation and soft over-seeing of us unruly types.
Thank you Bray for weekly wisdom, and thank yon commenters for diversified input and viewpoints
So next week I begin my proposal for my new book, below a picture of the one that will be a PART of my new book.
I got a message yesterday from a friend…."Pat-I just wanted to let you know that I just finished reading your book and enjoyed it very much. Thanks again for giving me a copy for Christmas"..
Well of course this makes my day but I got more….plus my new idea which will propel to the top of the charts…..ah….I dream..
I finished this book in 2001, right after the attacks of 9/1/01. I recall lamenting that because of those attacks this book might not get published. More on this maybe later..
The book WAS published in 2005 and what a story, guys, what a story, both IN the book and the story the book is based on..
So far, indeed, Father Thomas Flowers has read this book, even coming over special to a mass he wasn't celebrating to get his own copy and giving me two kisses for same.
My own beloved niece, who I love but who, with love I say, is not the smartest in the world. But SHE was in the book and hey, that will draw people to your book..
"Aunt Pat, I don't read enough books. Your book had three stories going on and….well, I loved it.".
Heh. Well indeed she did, God bless..
Finally. The Sussex county head of the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI), my friend Tiffany who heard my crazy daughter on the radio as God sent her to me. I went to dinner with her the other night and tried to remember something in the book. Tiffany remembered the whole thing….she loved it, and it is about mental illness, specifically Munchausen syndrome, now called Factitious Disorder. LYING in other words..
But it's FICTION! Except one of the characters is NOT fiction. It is the child of the book's protagonist who is constantly making herself sick or faking illness outright. No where in the book is Munchausen mentioned folks. .
The protagonist is a lady, around my age you should smile, who, in the course of her volunteer work to get her candidate elected, discovers him molesting a child..
The book does have three sub stories and I sat and read it myself last summer and LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!.
I know, once again no modesty but hey, I had to take this damn book off the market because my awful daughter, who got a restraining order against me last year, who lost custody of her own child, a really bad person I am so sorry but Munchausen people are just not good people. Daughter told me that if I didn't pull the book, which she read by the way and knew darn well the character of Skye was her, that I would never see my granddaughter again..
One day, while cleaning my shed, I found FIVE copies of the book. I then gave one to my Pastor, one to the NAMI head, one to my friend Linda, secretary for the Sussex GOP and I knew she'd love a good political story, and one to my niece. I obviously kept one because it's the last one on the planet..
Well I do have the electronic copy, of course, and I am thinking of either re-printing the thing or including it in my NEXT book because "Attention, Please!" documents that horror of a child's adolescent years and how my beloved, now deceased husband, and I struggled with constant suicide threats, hospital stays, inflicted disease….yeah I sat down and documented it all in this terrific book, God bless me..
The protagonist in the book struggles to get people to listen to her. There are twists and turns, Baltimore Sun conspirators, the victim's parents and why they don't help until finally….
Well, heh, she gets the attention she needs and it's a great story, seriously, y'all would love it..
Amazon has this book on their site but like I said, daughter made me stop all printing. But now that she's lost custody of her daughter (who I see, thank you my Lord and Savior-on a regular basis now that's granddaughter is with her father) I can re-publish the book..
Besides, I was smart enough to document all that stuff because I figured no one would ever believe me with the horror this child put me through..
Now that I bought her a house, took her family to Disney world, fed her every day, pay for her property taxes and insurance….she turned into the she-devil once again. I'VE GOT TO WRITE THIS PART OF THE STORY,NO?.
Anyway, now working on it but go on, the few people that read the book LOVED IT! And now I can published it with no fear..
It would make a great movie. Look at the cover and see if you can figure out how the protagonist got the attention she so desperately needed.