Monthly Archives: January 2014

January 6, 2014

I’ll start my first blog of 2014 with a magnificent quote from one of my favorite writers:

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”
― Neil Gaiman

Isn’t that fantastic?? Happy happy New Year to you!

I’m sure you’ll be absolutely over-the-moon thrilled to hear that one of my New Year’s Resolutions is to do a better job of keeping up with this blog. After all, I have SO MANY incredibly interesting and important things to say. (Play along.)

But the most important thing I want to share right now concerns 2013. Yes, 2013 was a good year for me. Not only did I have my first book published, fulfilling a lifelong dream, but people actually bought it! And enjoyed it! (Yes, I avoid any and all bad reviews to protect my ridiculously fragile ego.)

In fact, there were several “Best Of 2013” wrap-up lists that specifically mentioned Being Henry David among their favorites. How cool is that??

I’ll share them with you here…

From Kirkus ~ (Hooray for the alphabetical advantage here—I’m listed first!)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/best-teen-books-2013-explore-identity/

From Buzzfeed ~ Ranked “in no particular order,” I’m #11

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ariellecalderon/the-best-ya-books-of-2013

From Mashable ~ Listed # 5 of 11 here! (This post has been shared over 20,000 times! Probably half of them were by me…)

http://mashable.com/2013/12/18/11-ya-books-to-add-to-your-reading-list-in-2014/

Hopefully, this bodes well for the paperback version of my book, which will be released March 1, 2014—yippeeee!

Okay, enough of this blogging business…I must excuse myself to get back to writing the “real” stuff. Yes, wouldn’t you know, all this good feedback only encouraged me write another book. It’s a slower process than I would like, but some things refused to be rushed. Stay tuned….and thank you..and happy new year…