So I've taken up writing my own book, and what I have so far, I've printed out for my mom to read. Almost immediately she compared my book and cousins book to each other. No instigation from me, completely out of the blue. 131 pages and 14 chapters, not even close to finishing the book yet and she told me right out just from the first page that what i had was best selling material compared to cousins ready published work. I expected her to be bored with it after a few pages but never had I thought of her saying to me that she was so into it that she couldn't stop reading it. She stopped only after getting tired halfway through chapter 10 telling me that she loved the characters, plot, and the varied chapter lengths.

I'm fairly excited to continue my book, the first of an original series I had started long ago in middle school. The story now is nearly a complete rework after a computer malfunction that wiped 800 pages of the completed first book im doing now and half of the started second installment of the series.