Hey y'all,
I'm really excited for you all to read a bit about Pauline today. She is the perfect example of not waiting to follow your dreams. When some of you might say, "I want to be an author when I grow up," remember that Pauline is only 16 and has a book in the works already. It's never too early to follow your dreams, and Pauline is the perfect example of that. Make sure to check out Mechanical this spring! Also, make sure to take a look at The Secrets of Evelyn Taylor.
~Anna
Hi, I’m Pauline Harris, I’m a
sixteen-year old author and I’ve been writing since I was eight years old. I’m flattered and excited to be writing my
first guest blog post here.
I’m an avid reader and always enjoy
books with futuristic and fantasy themes.
Some of the books that were most inspirational for me were the Inkheart
series by Cornelia Funke and the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson.
Recently, I wrote a trilogy and the
first book, Mechanical, is scheduled to be published sometime next spring. I’m thrilled that I’ve signed with a
publisher. I mean, since I was twelve
years old my dream has been to somehow get published and now that its happening
I’m almost in shock. There are moments
when I think that I need to keep searching literary agents and publishers
online, and then I’ll suddenly remember…I don’t need to anymore. It’s weird after basically years of querying,
I’m done. I have nothing to do with
myself now, other than school...
Write another book?
Anyway, I’m here to talk about Mechanical,
and talk about Mechanical I will. I’m
very proud of it, but I’m the author so that goes without saying. I love it and hate it at the same time; a
strange mix of emotions that makes me want to either smile or scream every time
I read it.
Here’s a short description:
Mechanical is a story about an android girl named Drew who suddenly finds herself caught between
two worlds; humanity and perfection.
Drew is told from the very
beginning of her superiority and enormous responsibilities. She was created for a mission, they tell her;
a mission more important than anything she could ever have imagined.
Drew is sent to a high school,
being ordered to observe the humans and report back to her creators. But when Drew forms friendships with these
humans and starts feeling strange human emotions, she begins to doubt her
creators’ ways of dealing with her and wonders whether her mission is as
brilliant as it once seemed.
As Drew falls deeper and deeper
into the mystery surrounding her mission and her creation, she is suddenly left
with a choice between what she’s known all her life and what she knows is
right.
That’s basically Mechanical in a
nutshell. Throw in some romance, spirituality,
backstabbing and moral issues, and there you have it. It’s kind of a conglomeration of many things
but if I had to name it by one or two genres, I’d have to go with dystopian and
science fiction.
I’ve always wanted to write a book
about a robot – ever since I was little.
I love Star Trek, and anything that has to do with science fiction and
futuristic madness, so I’ve always liked the idea of an intelligent computer
posing as a human. When I finally came
up with the idea for the Mechanical Trilogy, I was super excited and started
writing furiously, blissfully unaware of the hours of painful editing I would
have to suffer through later. But, it
was all worth it.
Mechanical doesn’t have a set
release date yet, as it’s in the early stages of publishing, but I can
tentatively say sometime next spring. I
seriously can’t wait.
It’s planned to be a three book
series, followed by ‘Perfect’ and ‘Flawed’.
You can check them out at paulinecharris.wix.com/author. There you will find synopsizes of all three
books in the series. I hope you get a
chance to check it out.
Thank you so much for reading this
post and let me conclude with one of my favorite inspirational quotes that
helped me in my journey to becoming published: “Shoot for the moon, even if you
miss you’ll land among the stars.” Brian
Littrell.
Hope to see you among the stars!
All the best,
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