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June 25, 2007

To new beginnings!!

but the endings are too sad

My mother always used to say that every ending is simply a new beginning. Of course, this is the same woman who also sniffed my refrigerator every time she came to visit me for nearly ten years and packed the Lysol in her carry-on bag, so I’m not exactly holding her up as the voice of reason, but on this one, she had a point.

All of us, as Lani said, are facing some new challenges in our lives and going in different directions. Teen fiction, collaborations, urban fantasy, and paranormal romance. When you get pulled off into seventeen different directions at once, it’s hard to give your very best to each one of the competing challenges. We at the LC love you all for faithfully stopping by for – wow – almost THREE YEARS!!! (That’s longer than most of my pre-Navy Guy relationships lasted!!) And you deserve only our best.

So we’re on to new beginnings and leaving the Literary Chicks behind. But thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing our ups and downs, our stories about our writing and kids and writing and dogs and writing and crazy mad funny adventures and misadventures that make up our lives. This author gig can be a tough one – it’s very isolating to live and work both in the same four walls. Stopping by here every day was one of the things that made it great during the good times and at least bearable during the bad times. I’m going to miss you all more than you know.

But back to the new beginning part!! Please stop by and visit me at my BLOG, for the continued misadventures as I become Nature Girl, brave the cross-country move back to Florida next month (was it only 2 years ago you suffered through the trip up here with me?) and GO TO VISIT MICHELLE AND TOUR ENGLAND NEXT SPRING!!!!! And please please sign up for my NEWSLETTER and my DISCUSSION GROUP to hear what’s new with me and talk about books. Because, new beginning or not, this still feels like an ending, and it’s making me cry.

Thank you to Lani, Michelle, Eileen, Beth, and Whitney for being my sisters on this roller coaster ride, and thank you to all of you – our wonderful readers - for being blessings in my life. As a goodbye hug, here is a pic of me, Science Boy and Princess from the tent in Williamsburg

May your summer be filled with terrific beach reads and your lives be filled with joy and love.
hugs,
Alesia

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