Dear Amy Foster,
It is not easy being a teenager. I hope that you have good friends and a kind family to help you.
Thank you for following me. I have now published six books (fiction, poetry, and literary criticism), and I'm working on a book of nature poems and an autobiography. I have a new story fiction chapter book for middle school kids that entitled The Passover Surprise Fictive Press just published in March 2015. It is based on some problems that I had when I was young. However, I have given the main character help to solve any problems that I did not get as a girl.
I recently won first place in a poetry contest. I had been trying to get this poem about the Civil War in the United States published for 17 years, so this award felt good.
Best wishes to you for 2015! I hope that your own writing is going well. I'm glad that spring has finally come.
Janet Ruth Heller
Author of the poetry books of Exodus (wordtech Editions, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphor Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Centre (Finishing Line Press, 2011), the scholarly book Coleridge, Lamb, Hazlitt, and the Reader of Drama (University of Missouri Press, 1990), the award-winning book for kids about bullying, How the Moon Regained Each Shape (Arbordal 2006), and the middle-grade book for kids The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015).
Websites are http://www.janetruthheller.com/ and http://www.wattpad.com/user/janetruthheller
