I remember the day, when I was in my 10th grade Biology class that The Girl Who Could Fly was written. I’ve only have an imaginative feeling like that every so often, this past weekend after watching Avatar I had began the writing process for a being or commonly known as a Book-Keeper, this is what Shanika is.  Soon after writing Shanika’s first story and after a little bit of dragging on my end I wrote the continuations of her stories which now presently are the middle for my book, though this may change. Now all I have to do it get working on the begining and the end.

So far Zachary, Samantha, Byron, and Shanika have only made appearances within the pages of the North Philly Metropolis and a brief appearance in The Cap Literacy Magazine from the Community College of Philadelphia. WIth their story ending, at least their NPM chapters, I thought it would be appropriate to try and get them known, myself also, in other publications.

 A few months ago I had submitted The Girl Who Could Fly to Teen Ink, actually this is my second time submitting. Anyhow, today was the day that I received an email saying thet my recent submission had been read by the editors and was chosen for publication on teeninkraw. How exciting! I’ve been reading and re-reading the letter, but here’s a segment from the letter that I want you all to pay attention to”

Teen Ink RAW is our new website for unedited, unfiltered teen-generated poetry, fiction, articles, reviews, opinions, artwork, etc., that allows you and others to rate your work and provide feedback. Highest rated stories in each section will be prominently displayed on the site. Your work could be among them, so vote often and send the link to all your friends and family and ask them to vote too. (Up to one vote per article per day)

So if you all don’t mind, please vote for me. I really would appreciate it. This is one step closer for me and my writing to become known, not to mention I might be able to add this to my resume’. The link to my story will respectively be in ‘the book series’ section of the site, please visit there and remember to vote.

I hope that when letters about the NPM go out that people become as excited as I am now and for those of you who are wondering about my ‘Dark Knight’ entry, its coming. I went yesterday with a couple of friends, it was very good so go see it.

And for those of you who are wondering when I’m putting the NPM chapters together into one big volume, don’t worry I’m working on it. It shall be called, The Bundle Thus Far. Well off to finishing the paper I go

Peace 

Editor’s Note:Yeah I know. I was in the bookstore not too long ago and noticed a book entitled The Girl Who Could Fly. Clearly when writing the story in the 10th grade I had no knowledge that the title aready existed or was in the works. Oh well, at least my entire series isn’t titled the Girl Who Could Fly like it was going to be at one point.