Hello, Lisa! Your Children's Lit group just caught my attention.

I'm a dedicated month-long novelist through www.nanowrimo.org (every November!). Two years ago, I attempted to write a novel based on my late father's stories. Called "The Jones Family Chronicles: Ruby's Tale" it drew on the characters he pulled directly from my family. Problem is, I got cold feet half-way through the month. Sure I had plenty of work pressures that year, but I think I was afraid that it wasn't being true to his stories and my creations would never be as good.

Now that I'm freelance writing, I would like to restart the project. It's scary, though. Unlike the other novels where there was nothing to lose, here was a novel that had a lot of emotional baggage.

Would anyone be interested in reading a chapter and giving me feedback?

- Maura