Maybe this isn't your type of thing, but maybe this is. My good friend Patrick (you have seen him on previous Chicago posts) wrote a young adult fiction novel. Me having approximately 0.43% skill in writing more than a thousand words, I couldn't believe he was taking this on. I will also be honest...I was skeptical. Not because he isn't creative or a great writer cause he is. No, I was skeptical because I have never known an author and the job sounds too daunting to me.
But he did it. What's more, I read it. The entire book. I loved it...and that is saying a lot because it is young adult fiction and I don't like that genre much. I haven't even read Harry Potter. But this was a great book with real human emotion being the driver for the fantastic things that happen on each page. It's called The Chronicles of Landon Wicker: the Search for Artemis.
Well, getting published is another story. Patrick entered it into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition and has progressed to the final rounds. I think he gets bonus points for getting people to review the book on Amazon. The first chapter is available to read for free online at http://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Landon-Wicker-Artemis-ebook/dp/B004TEYRGG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=books&qid=1301597443&sr=8-1
If you like to read check it out and then give him a strong review on Amazon. I have to hand it to him...Patrick wrote a real book. Wow.
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