Hi Everyone!!! I am so excited! I am publishing a book I wrote! It is called "Rachel’s Journal". It is about a girl named Rachel Plaffadora Tawg (I came up with this name all by myself!). I started when I was 8 in December of 2016. I really finished it in February, 2017. We are publishing it now though. It is mostly based on my life, at school and at home, though some of the things are completely different from my life. I sometimes base some parts off of my friends, school, family, or events.
My friend Weronika, who lives in Poland told me her friend Aleksandra (Ola for short) was a great artist. She sent me some of her drawings, and I agreed to make Ola the illustrator of "Rachel’s Journal". Now I have an illustrator in Poland!
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| One of Aleksandra Makarczyk's Illustrations |
The book is available to buy on Amazon in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. It should be available in America in a few more days. I am super excited!
I am working on book 2 of Rachel’s Journal. I am also writing another series, kind of based on the Pegasus series by Kate O’Hearn. I am not sure if I would want to try to publish that one though. Before I wrote "Rachel’s Journal", I was working on a book called "Hannah Windson and the Magical Teacher". It wasn’t that good though. It was mostly inspired by J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series and Hogwarts. I also had worked on a book called "Life of a Kindergartner". It was about how kindergartners think and how they act. I now most likely won’t continue it because I don’t remember what it was like to be in kindergarten.
Here is a small sample of the my book. I hope you will like it!
Just to prepare you, you may start to think that my life is very boring and not worth all the writing, but… You’ll be surprised! Just please, don’t stop reading yet.
My name is Rachel Plaffadora Tawg. I hate my first, last and middle names, not necessarily in that order. And I know, you don’t have to say it, but I do know that you think my names are weird. I wanted my first name to be something a bit fancier like Elizabeth, or Nicole, or Diana. Rachel isn’t bad but you know how most Rachaels are spelled with an ael at the end. And for my middle name, it’s way too long and even I couldn’t pronounce it until 1st grade. I don’t even know how my parents came up with it.
Once in 2nd grade I made the mistake of telling Samantha Dockers (who was my best friend at the time) my middle name. A day later the whole class knew. They teased me by saying that it was too long, it was ugly, or that whoever came up with it must have been having a really bad day. I went home crying. The next morning my parents had to force me to go to school. During lunch, a girl, who everyone calls Crybaby Ella, took the empty seat next to me.
“You know, last year Samantha told everyone my secret,” she said, staring at her tray. She never looks anyone in the eye. She almost never talks. “Her mom is always gossiping, my mommy said. Maybe that is why she also enjoys it,” she added.
Later that day I came up to Samantha and said, “I thought I could trust you.”
“Well, you thought wrong,” she replied with an evil grin.
So that shows why I hate my middle name. Now for my last name, it is just too odd. Rachel Tawg sounds so plain, if you ask me. My not-so-awesome initials are R.P.T. , which aren’t nearly as awesome as something like L.U.V. I know a girl whose full name is Lisa Unga Vankola. She keeps bragging about how her initials spell the word “love” in a cute way. There is nothing to brag about when your initials are R.P.T., that’s for sure. But I guess I should be glad that at least my initials don’t spell D.I.E. or R.I.P.
