Hello

When I was eight years old, my sisters, neighbors, and I started playing a game we called Season Sisters. We played it in my neighbor's garden where there were four stained-glass concrete stones. After playing the game for many months every day after school, we decided to make it a book. I was the main writer, but the others helped a little bit. I had always loved writing and had written many short stories that I would tell to my sisters at bedtime. When I had been writing it for about a year, the others gave up on it. They moved on and wouldn't play the Season Sisters game anymore. I kept writing, but soon I started to give up, too. I set it aside for two whole years before finding it in my "time will tell' box. I decided it wasn't bad and rewrote it again and again. My parents were - and still are - always supportive of me, but I don't think they realized that writing was more than a passing hobby until I finished writing my first real book. When the people around me saw how dedicated I was to it, they began to see that I was a real writer. When I was twelve, I had my family members edit it. Then, I self-published 'Season Sisters and the Hidden Island' through KDP. Soon, I started writing the second book. The hardest part was that I suddenly knew I was an author and too many ideas were coming to me at once. I started an Ideas notebook to write down all of my story ideas in the same place. I had the problem of working on too many stories at once, so it took more than two years to publish book two. During that time, I figured out a system to help me work through writer's block and an overflow of new ideas. I hope my story will encourage writers of all ages to never give up even when it is hard and to never let anyone tell you that you are too young - or too old - to be a published author. Surround yourself with positive people and other writers around your age and help each other achieve your dreams.