Songs!

Hello again! Its been over a week since my last post, but today I have wonderful news indeed! A few nights ago my friend Janica and I went to a recording studio (thanks to Mike Odo) to better record the three songs in Found (buy it HERE) with great results! Although it took several hours, we managed to get them all recorded before one o'clock AM. I have uploaded them onto my SoundCloud account. You can find the link in the back of the book!

The first song is titled Duncan's Song. Its the first song in the story which Lizzie does not perform, but she does write in her composition book.

The second song is the trio's Christmas song titles Perfect Christmas, which they do sing in the story. Although we were not able to get piano in it, it still sounds great!

The third song is a song Janica and I collaborated on. Its kind of like my gift to you for reading the book all the way through. If you enjoyed the book, this song may give you a few "feels" as I'd like to say it. There are no lyrics for this written in the book, but Lizzie mentions it. Once you listen to it, I'm sure it'll be obvious as to what song it is. (It's seriously one of my favorites. Check it out!) On this track there are some harmonics played by Mike's friend Kasey.

So I hope you will check out these songs! We worked very hard on them so it'd be so great to have people listen to them and connect them to the moments in the book. Also, in no way do my friend and I resemble Lizzie's voice or Marina's voice perfectly. We have our moments but those girls take the cake. But! That doesn't take away from how proud I am about these recordings and these songs. Let me know how you like them!

More News After a Long Break

Hi there dear readers I hope you've been well. It's been a while since my last Wednesday post and I apologize for that. And now it's Thursday, so I'm even more sorry. But I come bearing great news! As of a few days ago, Found is available for purchase on Amazon! Just search up "Found Marley" and a link to order the book should pop up. Or- you can just click HERE for a direct link to the site. As of Tuesday, I received my 20 free copies to distribute as I see fit. I may give a few away to family and maybe friends, but I'll be focusing on the libraries first.

Am I excited, you ask? Why I'm absolutely ecstatic! When I got my authors proof on April 8th, I finally got to see the final product of my hard work. It was my book and it completely thrilled me. Everyone who happens to find out- whether I tell them or someone else does -is very proud of me and I love that. From what I've been told by people, I'll be getting an overwhelming amount of support from my peers as well as my teachers. The head of the English Dept. at the school has even asked me to do a book reading and of course I said I would. Hopefully I'll do my writing justice by reading it! I still need to pick out what parts to read, but that's news to save for another day.

Now that the book is out there I'll be posting a lot more on here! There are only 25 days left until graduation, so I'll have a lot more time after then to post. So hopefully when people start to read the book, they'll take some time to visit the blog! There will be polls up every month or maybe every week. Considering how many people actually visit and vote. But anyway, I hope that you check out my book and I'll be posting more news next week!

Love, Marley.