#3 Unwritten

Two years ago I took time to read. Last year I quit my job to write.

Dear reader of this blog:

Maybe you are here for the first time, parachuting in this "Unwritten" post, or perhaps you've read the previous two and are curious about the first one, called "Chapter 0". No matter how you arrived here, welcome, and thank you for your visit.

For the curious ones: yes, "Chapter 0" is, in fact, the beginning of my book, the one I quit my job to write. And for everyone, of course, "Unwritten" is the title of my manuscript. These are the first words any potential agent will read if they skip the query letter. If not, what they might read is something similar to this:

UNWRITTEN is the story of a mother who, unable to speak, decides to write her story to communicate with her teenage daughter.

Queen is fourteen. She's the older of three, imperfect, anxious, and many other things that no one else can understand. On top of that, her mother left more than a week ago, and she didn't dare to ask why. What made a forty-something woman, always on top of everything, leave her house without even saying goodbye to her kids?

On a late afternoon, Queen discovers a file on her computer, written by her mother, a collection of stories and thoughts from a childhood she had never heard of. Mum grew up with a single mother, a distant father, estranged relatives, and just a few friends. What could Queen learn from that? What was her mother trying to show her? Is it related to her disappearance?

Did I make you (even more) curious about what this will bring?