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Well, this is a surprise! My publisher has decided they want to go ahead with 3 books for an Early Chapter books series, based on the characters from the Circle C Adventures. Sort of like an Adventures of Andi and Taffy. I think I'll call the first one
Pony Trouble and write the story of how Andi first gets Taffy. This series would be for ages 6-8, kids learning to read. If anybody has any ideas for other books, feel free to share them. I have ideas for the first three books, but if they do well, there will sure to be more. I even have a potential illustrator (these books for younger children have black and white illustrations throughout the book). Wow. Excitement builds.
Of course, these things take time, so don't start looking for the books yet. I will probably do updates about this fun little series on the
Andi Stories blog.
And what does Andi say to all this? "I think it will be fun for little kids to read about what I did in the Old West when I was young. I'll try really hard to remember the adventures I had!"
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I'm excited to tell you that Saved Girl wrote the next chapter to
Andi Lost, and it's a GREAT story. She previously left us off at the end of chapter 7, with Talise about to tell Andi and Cory a story. Well, here it is! Enjoy!
If you've missed any of the chapters and want to catch up, click here:
"Andi Lost"
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Saved Girl has posted the next chapter of Andi Lost.
Whoo-hoo! Click below to read it:
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Saved Girl is going great guns. She sent me another chapter for her Young Andi story, Andi Lost.
Click the graphic to go straight to Chapter 6. If you want to start with Chapter 1, click here: CHAPTER 1.
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Yikes! I forgot to post the entry to let you know that Saved Girl wrote another action-packed chapter for
Andi Lost! Sorry, Saved Girl!
Click the graphic to read the latest installment:
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Saved Girl has come through again....with Chapter 4 of
Andi Lost. Click on the graphic below to enjoy the newest addition:
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Wow! Saved girl believes in non-stop, nail-biting action all the way around. Here is chapter 3 of
Andi Lost, the Young Andi story she is writing and I am posting on the Andi and Cory blog:
CHAPTER 3.
I'm starting to get a fuzzy idea that I might need your help for the next book. As I read this newest chapter from
Andi Lost, I really liked Saved Girl's idea of the snake. I think it might be an idea I could use and add to Book 5,
Trouble with Treasure. I have even written the rough draft of the first 2 chapters. But ideas are few and far between. I've got a general idea for it (as in a longer-than-usual nutshell summary):
Andi, Cory, and Jenny (from San Francisco) jump at the chance to keep Mitch company on a two-week trek into the Sierras to check up on the Carter logging camp. With an old survey map (AKA treasure map) in hand, Cory is sure they'll strike it rich by nosing around old gold diggings along the way. They come across a shack that looks abandoned. It's not. One of the members of a gang that robbed the Fresno bank is hiding out. Mitch unwittingly sets off a chain of events that kills the outlaw, but leaves him with a bullet in his leg. Alone, in the middle of nowhere, it's up to Andi and her friends to keep Mitch alive long enough for Cory to go for help--and before the other bank robbers return.
A plot like that will take me about 6 chapters to write. I need MORE. More sub-plots, more surprises (like the snake idea tossed in to get the blood moving). Got any ideas? I'm hoping to write the book this summer and submit it to my publisher in the fall. Feel free to send me ideas of what kinds of adventures could these 3 kids get themselves into on a "camping" trip up in the hills that goes bad.
So...please brainstorm with me! You can write sentences or lists or just jot down ideas. Even if I don't use an idea, it might spark me into another direction--full of danger and adventure.
I might even have to start a new category titled "Brainstorming."
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Great news, bloggers! Saved Girl has posted Chapter Two of the story she's writing about Andi and Cory. Click here to read it:
CHAPTER TWO.
If you haven't read Chapter One yet and would like to, click here:
CHAPTER ONE.
Thanks, Saved Girl! It's a great chapter.
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I promised you young writers that if you wrote any stories about Andi and her friends that I would post them. Saved Girl, a recent graduate of the Reach for the Stars Writing Workshop, decided to do this. She just sent me chapter 1 of a story she's writing (it's very good so far. She's really captured the characters' personalities!). She calls it Andi--Lost! Click the graphic below to read chapter 1: (Then head over to her blog and encourage her to write the next chapter!)
Well, this is a surprise! My publisher has decided they want to go ahead with 3 books for an Early Chapter books series, based on the characters from the Circle C Adventures. Sort of like an Adventures of Andi and Taffy. I think I'll call the first one Pony Trouble and write the story of how Andi first gets Taffy. This series would be for ages 6-8, kids learning to read. If anybody has any ideas for other books, feel free to share them. I have ideas for the first three books, but if they do well, there will sure to be more. I even have a potential illustrator (these books for younger children have black and white illustrations throughout the book). Wow. Excitement builds. 
