Guest Blogger Author Ellen Fritz

I didn’t start writing seriously until I retired and  found myself with the time to spend a whole day in front of the computer.  The ideas had been in my head for many  years, but were undeveloped and unexplored.  One day, several months after my teaching/counseling career ended, I sat down and started.
             
Some days, the ideas, dialog, and characters flow from my brain and I can
barely type fast enough.  Other days, I have to walk away, occupy my mind with something else, and hash through what might happen, what might be said.   But both days are valuable.
             
While waiting for a publisher to accept my first book, I discovered that
the rejections were okay.  While I  sincerely want young people to read and enjoy my books, I realized that the  writing was more for me.  It’s a
joy to develop the characters and situations, and I can’t foresee a time when
I’ll be ready for it to end.

AUTHOR BIO

Ellen Fritz is a rered teacher and high school counselor.  Over the years of  teaching reading and English to students in grades  seven through twelve before  becoming a counselor, she had the great opportunity  to discuss numerous  favorite books with students and also took their rommendations for her own
reading.
She finally found herself with the time to give  life to the stories that  have always been patiently waiting in her head for an  audince.  Ellen wrote Mira to appeal to those middle grade/teen readers  that  she found so inspiring through her career as an  educator.

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MIRA
Two warring alien races have lived among us for thousands  of years.  One plots to conquer the  earth, one strives to live among us in peace. An ordinary college student, Lexi has no
idea that her genetic legacy is about to plunge her into a world she never knew
existed.  Coping with her altered  life, protecting innocent victims, and falling in love while trying to finish  college and keep the ordinary humans around her unaware of what is really going  on, Lexi finds herself balancing situations she could never have imagined.  Lexi enters a life that is wondrous,  delightful, dangerous and terrifying, as she becomes the catalyst for events  that could change the balance of power between the alien races.
             
Appropriate and enjoyable for all ages, Mira plunges the reader  into Lexi’s complicated, extraordinary world and introduces likeable characters  facing complex situations.  It is a
world that is at times fun, at times perilous, but never dull when the fate of  two alien races and the humans around them is hanging in the  balance. Look for it this summer from Tell-Tale Publishing Group.
 
Author Notes        
Ellen Fritz is a retired teacher and high school counselor.  Over the years of teaching reading and English to students in grades  seven through twelve before becoming a counselor, she had the great opportunity  to discuss numerous favorite books with students and also took their
  recommendations for her own reading.

She finally found herself with the time to give life to the stories that  have always been patiently waiting in her head for an audience.  Ellen wrote Mira to appeal to those middle grade/teen readers that  she found so inspiring through her career as an
educator.
           
I didn’t start writing seriously until I retired and found myself with  the time to spend a whole day in front of the computer.  The ideas had been in my head for many years, but were undeveloped and  unexplored.  One day, several  months after my teaching/counseling career ended, I sat down and  started.
             
Some days, the ideas, dialog, and characters flow from my brain and I can
barely type fast enough.  Other  days, I have to walk away, occupy my mind with something else, and hash through  what might happen, what might be said.   But both days are valuable.

 While waiting for a publisher to accept my first book, I discovered that  the rejections were okay.  While I  sincerely want young people to read and enjoy my books, I realized that the
writing was more for me.  It’s a  joy to develop the characters and situations, and I can’t foresee a time when  I’ll be ready for it to end.