This seven-part series will cover the 2 ½-year time span between the day I set out to become an author and the day I became one.
Becoming an Author – Part Four
Fall 2006
Our family experienced some turmoil as we prepared for school to begin again in the fall of 2006. My husband had accepted a new school principal position. We’d been open-enrolled to a neighboring school district and we’d be switching to our local district, since he would no longer bring the children with him to work each morning.
Any kind of change for kids can be difficult and ours had experienced their share of “shifting” in their young lives, but this was the first time we’d ever switched schools.
The result was that we gave up on the new school after six weeks, and embarked on a year-long homeschool experiment which I chronicled here on Pass the Torch. Thrust unprepared into a totally new and life-changing situation, I did virtually nothing related to my writing career, while I found my way as a homeschooling parent. I had just begun writing a monthly Positively Speaking column at 5 Minutes for Mom, however, and I continued writing there.
Then in December, while I attended a conference to exhibit for my company, I checked my email from the business center of the hotel. And the director of publishing had sent me an email.
“We’d like to offer you a contract.”
Becoming an Author series:
Part One — Winter 2006
Part Two — Spring 2006
Part Three — Summer 2006
Part Four — Fall 2006
Part Five — Winter-Spring 2007
Part Six — July 2007-February 2008
Part Seven — Spring 2008
Photos of Search Institute Press
My book, Empowering Youth: How to Encourage Young Leaders to Do Great Things, is now available from Search Institute Press.
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10:57 am
Oh the jubilation of those words!
Hugs,
Holly
10:11 am
I think that would have called for an extra helping of “secret”… the roll-on variety. Ha.
10:48 am
Holly – absolutely!
And Pamela – ha! is right! Very exciting.
8:54 pm
Great words to hear!
9:26 pm
It’s so exciting to follow your success story! I dream of writing a book some day! Congrats! I can’t wait to read it!