Dear Samskycaprisun,
You are right that Wattpad is exciting. I like connecting to writers and readers from all over the earth. When I was young, the Internet did not exist. I have witnessed a lot of changes during my lifetime.
Thank you for following me. I have been writing since I was six years old. 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 fiction chapter book story for middle school kids entitled The Passover Surprise that 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 her 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 in the 1860s 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 Exodus (WordTech Editions, 2014), Folk Concert: Changing Times (Anaphora Literary Press, 2012) and Traffic Stop (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 Her Shape (Arbordale, 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
