Rainbow Snippets: Interfaith

Happy Saturday! My kids are at an all-day rehearsal to kick off tech week. Kid #2 is in the cast of Aladdin Jr. Kid #1 is too old, so he’s on stage crew.

This week, I’m back to sharing snippets of my YA novella, Year of the Guilty Soul. It just released 11/5 as an audiobook! I’m so excited to be able to offer it with greater accessibility. My narrator, Finley Smith, was perfect.

I’m putting together a blog and review tour for the last two weeks of November, so if anyone is willing to host, please sign up at the links.

REVIEW: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YTCuq0N1n9YfjcpXfUrW9XN0XLGcz6hnnw9VIHXbk7Q

BLOG ONLY: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ZiVSI5kiKPuA1aazTT37Sh5gKmzLHS8VzS12m6dyDg4

And here’s the snippet. While the MC is not me, there is a lot of my own growing up reflected in this story. This snippet is one example. I’m from an interfaith family that doesn’t look the way it’s often presented on television or in movies.

It wasn’t long after that when I read Judy Blume’s Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret. Everyone mocks it for being “the period book,” which I guess it kind of is. That’s not why I read it so often the cover fell off and half the pages were dog-eared. Margaret Simon is like me—her father is Jewish. Almost everyone I’ve ever met with one Jewish parent, it’s their mom. This was the first time I ever saw myself in a character. I related a lot more to her search for faith than to her wish to be a grown up. I didn’t care much about periods or training bras, but I sure did want to know what I was supposed to be.

Rainbow Snippets is a safe and welcoming space for LGBTQIA+ authors, readers, and bloggers to share 6 sentences each week from a work of fiction—published or in-progress—or a book recommendation. Feel free to join in!