There is no doubt about it my favorite book ever is The Sprightling Diaries: In the Twilight, the book that my mom wrote. She started working on it when I was six or seven when three of my cousins, my brothers, me, and my mom did a little summer school in our backyard for my little sister. My cousins would stay over and my mom had an idea to start a book. Together we made up Avril Holly and her town, Tresleton. Tresleton is a town full of sprightlings, people that are half faery who sprout wings at twilight. Avril and her town have to keep it a secret that they are half faery from all the humans, who can be dangerous.
Avril begins to have weird headaches. Avril and her best friend Pasleigh are invited to party in the town next to theirs but there are two problems; it's after twilight and the other town is not a town for sprightlings. Instead of staying home from the party Avril and Pasleigh bind their wings and go. On the way back from the party Avril is attacked and someone saves her, but who?
One rainy day when Avril and Veston, Pasleigh's brother, are riding home a shop the power goes out and Avril falls off her bike and has to go to Veston's house where she finds out that her headaches are the start of her mind reading powers. Together, Avril and Veston will have to save the town of sprightlings for the dangerous human who are trying to figure out their secrets.
After making this up my mom typed it and ever since she finished it she has been trying to get the book published. One day this year during the summer while my dad was at work we (my mom, me, my little sister, and my two brothers) decided to go swimming after my mom got a rejection letter from a publishing company. We went swimming and when we got home we were all talking about ways to improve the book to help it get published. While we were talking my mom checked her email and there was something we would never have thought would be there.
It was a email from a publishing company saying that they were interested in the book! About three weeks later my mom got the contract and she signed it and sent it back. My aunt made some really good cover art for the book and my mom sent that to the publisher and they came up with a really good idea for the cover using the cover art that my aunt painted.
Anyway the printing people said that they would try and get it printed soon and the publishing company said that the book will probably be coming out sometime in October. I can't wait for it to come out! Another thing is that when my mom was writing the book she said that if she got a contract signed to get the book published then she would get a double oven. Well she got the contract signed, so on her birthday we took her to RC Willy and got her a double oven which is so awesome!
I can't wait for the book to come out!
