My friend, Teri, or as my family knows her, Teri from Oregon, has some big news. 
She sold her first fiction book, Read my Lips, to Simon and Schuster’s YA line (YA means young adult for those who don’t know)!
Teri was my very first online writing friend way back in 1999. I remember she had just returned from a camping trip with her family and was looking for a writing partner. We were both supposed to write and critique pages for each other, but Teri writes FAST. And soon, I fell so far behind that I just cried uncle.
My favorite thing about Teri’s writing: her dialogue. It rocks.
(Reminder to extended family, this is the woman I went to Ohio to see, remember?)
So, three big cheers for Teri!
I am so pleased and proud of her! Go tell her congrats at her blog, http://tjbrown.blogspot.com/
(blush) thanks, Linda… I have learned so much since we were critting one another’s work… thanks for being there while I learned!!
Teri