Title: The Forgetting
Author: Nicole Maggi
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Release Date: 3rd February 2015
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Georgie's new heart saved her life...but now she's losing her mind.
Georgie Kendrick wakes up after a heart transplant, but the organ beating in her chest doesn't seem to be in tune with the rest of her body. Why does she have a sudden urge for strawberries when she's been allergic for years? Why can't she remember last Christmas?
Driven to find her donor, Georgie discovers her heart belonged to a girl her own age who fell out of the foster care system and into a rough life on the streets. Everyone thinks she committed suicide, but Georgie is compelled to find the truth - before she loses herself completely.
Georgie Kendrick wakes up after a heart transplant, but the organ beating in her chest doesn't seem to be in tune with the rest of her body. Why does she have a sudden urge for strawberries when she's been allergic for years? Why can't she remember last Christmas?
Driven to find her donor, Georgie discovers her heart belonged to a girl her own age who fell out of the foster care system and into a rough life on the streets. Everyone thinks she committed suicide, but Georgie is compelled to find the truth - before she loses herself completely.
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What Advice Do You Have for Aspiring Writers?
It may sound like a cop-out but one of the best pieces
of advice I can offer is to read. Read a lot. And read outside your comfort
zone. The majority of what I read is YA because, obviously, I love it
but every so often I like to throw in something different, like a biography or
memoir or literary fiction. Right now I’m reading Mistral’s Daughter by
Judith Krantz which is a sweeping multi-generational romance novel written in
the ’80’s.
The second piece of advice I have is to be careful
about showing your work to anyone too soon. Sometimes we write something and
we’re just so excited that we actually wrote something that we want to
show it to the world right away. But once you show it to the world, you open
yourself up for criticism. And that criticism might be constructive and
well-intentioned, but if we’re not ready to hear it, it can be really damaging.
I actually knew a beautiful writer who had her work critiqued by an agent at a conference
and she never wrote again. I like to think of my writing like a glass ball.
Until I’m absolutely certain that the glass is totally unbreakable, I won’t
show my work to anyone. So keep it to yourself for a while, until you’re sure
that you’re ready to listen to feedback.
A lot of people think you need to write every day to
really be a writer, but I disagree with that. In fact, I think the edict to
“Write something every single day” can actually be a little abusive because if
we don’t write that day, we start to beat ourselves up and that’s pretty
much the worst thing you can do to yourself as a writer. So my last piece of
advice is to just do something creative every day. It doesn’t have to be
writing. It can be painting, sculpting, baking, putting together a collage,
writing a blog post, dancing, singing in the shower…whatever brings you joy. We
all have a Well of Creativity within us and it’s important to keep that Well
stocked so that we can draw on it when we need to. By filling it with all sorts
of creative activities, we’re keeping ourselves primed so that when we’re under
deadline, and we do need to write every day, we can do it.
And I guess my bonus piece of advice is to never lose
faith. Don’t let anyone or anything shake you from your writing aspirations. If
you believe you can do it, you can, and don’t let anyone ever convince you
otherwise!
Thank you so much for hosting me on your site! Hope my advice is helpful to readers! :-)
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