The Wonder of New Friendship
As I get older, I learn there is a natural rhythm to life where friendships come and go. I have also learned to embrace this rhythm, not fight it. Different seasons of life form and emerge, bringing with them the surprise and gift of new friendships. It is like taking a road trip to a place you’ve never been, where everything is alive with newness and wonder. That is what a new friendship is like. Some of you reading this I consider such friends and count it a blessing to know you. You have graced my life with your presence, your words and your laughter. I trust the feeling is mutual. Please hear me when I say “Thank You!”
One surprising friendship that has emerged is that of a seasoned writer, Laura Jensen Walker. She works alongside me, currently writing web content for her “day job”. She has been writing professionally for over 12 years and currently has 15 books published. Her newest book, Daring Chloe, is scheduled to be released nationwide the end of May. Laura is full of life and it has been a joy getting to know her.
Can you do me a favor from one friend to another? Pay her a visit, and, if you’d like, read one of her books. She writes bothe fiction and non-fiction. Some of her favorites are Thanks for the Mammogram—a non-fiction recount of personal struggle with breast cancer, Miss Invisible—a fictional book about an overweight women who felt “invisible” to the world due to her size (an interesting side note, a 14-year-old deaf girl recently wrote a fan letter saying that she feels “invisible” due to her hearing impairment), and Reconstructing Natalie—a story of a young single girl who develops breast cancer and how her cancer “reconstructed” her life.
Here are some of her covers (click to enlarge):
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Thanks, Jeromy, because you know I’m trying to get my wish list up to over 300 books and it’s so like you to always want to help out! Aaccckk! Seriously, though, these books look great and I’ll be adding several of them to my wish list. Thanks for letting us know. I love discovering a new author!
Some how I knew you’d appreciate this post. Anything I can do to help, Tracy. Like I said, I am here to serve. Yea, they do look good. She gave me a few copies (“Dated Jekyll, Married Hyde”, “This Old Dump” and “Daring Chloe”) and I look forward to reading them—as does my wife, Jen. If you do order some of her books, Laura would be more than happy to personalize them for you with her signature and a little note. Let me know if you order some, OK?
I’ll be sure to check those out. thanks.
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Please do. Thanks for swinging by.
Very nice to know I can get personalized books :). I just ordered over a dozen books yesterday, so it will be awhile before my next order, but I’ll keep it in mind when I go for it again!