Over a year ago, Arthur and I were contacted by the
Make-A-Wish Foundation regarding a young Seattle-area writer named
Stephanie Trimberger (who was 13 at the time; she’s 15 now). Stephanie has
brain cancer, and her dream was to have her novel edited by “the Harry
Potter editors.” Arthur and I read it and wrote her an editorial letter, and she began working on revisions. A year went by,
and we didn’t hear anything more. Then last week, we heard that she had finished her book and wanted us to take one last look.
600 Pine Street, Suite 107
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 265-0156
You can RSVP or leave a message for Stephanie at the Facebook page for the event. Thank you!
Thanks
to the terrific coordination of a lot of people at Scholastic, we not only
managed to edit it quickly, but our designers typeset the manuscript and
created a gorgeous cover for it. And with the help of an extraordinarily
generous donation from the printer, three hundred copies of Stephanie’s THE RUBY
HEART have now been printed.
Your Mission, Seattle Area People!: Next Tuesday, September 25, at 6 p.m., Stephanie will be doing a reading and signing of her book at the Pacific Place Barnes & Noble. Will you please, please attend? It would be so very awesome to have a big
audience there to applaud her accomplishment and make it a great day for
her. Stephanie is a huge reader of YA and fantasy fiction; she lost her
mom to brain cancer nine years ago, and it sounds like she’s been
writing about that long. I’m sure ALL writers can sympathize with her
dream of publishing a book, and it should be an amazing evening in seeing
that dream fulfilled.
The details in full:
Tuesday, September 25
6 p.m. (it was scheduled for 5:30 earlier; the time has been moved back)
Barnes & Noble Pacific Place600 Pine Street, Suite 107
Seattle, WA 98101
(206) 265-0156
You can RSVP or leave a message for Stephanie at the Facebook page for the event. Thank you!