Red Dirt Rocker

Red Dirt Rocker
Y/A novel by Jody French--Inspired by the adventures of musician- Forrest French

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

TEENAGE BOY-ISMS

TEENAGE BOY-ISMS~~

Words of wisdom from Coweta Jr. High----

#1
8th grade boy----"Mrs. French, what did you do this summer?"
Me---"Well, I taught a lot of swimming lessons."
8th grade boy---"DUDE...were you in the Olympics??!!"

#2
8th grade boy---"Mrs. French...are you married?"
Me---"Yes, I am--why?"
8th grade boy---"Because my grandpa needs a wife!!"

Oh how I love being back at the school!  Had a fun day sub-ing!!
Hope everyone is having an entertaining week!

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

NEW BOOK~~

I've been procrastinating on the start of a new book.  Maybe it's something like, when you have a child and you think about having another one.  You think to yourself, how one can be as good as the one you already have?  Yep, that's pretty much how I've felt.

I've had an idea in my head now for over six months, so I finally made myself sit down and plan the birth of my second book!  As of this weekend, I am a chapter into a work of fiction that I've named Rock Angel.  It's built around a musican's life.  It deals a bit with domestic violence in families, but also has a cool fantasy element that Red Dirt Rocker did'nt have.  I tease and say that I should have made Forrest a "vampire rock star" in Red Dirt Rocker in order to insure it's success with teen readers.  Not every book can have fangs though.  I'm hoping that young readers can still sink their teeth into my books.  Ok, enough with the Twilight references.

Anyway---I have officially announced on facebook that I have started on book number two.  I'm hoping that it doesn't take me two years to complete like Red Dirt Rocker did.  I would give anything to have the luxury of skipping off to a shack on the beach or a cabin in the mountains (with wi-fi of course) and write my little old heart out, but that's not the case.  I'm a busy mom with several part time jobs, and am Ga-Ga of four adorable little grand babies with another precious grand daughter due in November.  I'm total hands on with them and baby sit during the week as well.  I do feel very blessed that I have such a beautiful and close family.  They inspire me every day, but the glamorous job of changing diapers and handing out cheetos is not neccesarily condusive to the writing process.

I did know that if I announced that I've started on Rock Angel that it would no longer be just a title and idea floating around in my brain.  I've named my next book baby and can't wait until I can announce it's arrival!

God bless and hope everyone is well!!

Jody

Monday, August 13, 2012

RED DIRT ROCKER~~




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GOD BLESS AND HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!


GOOD MORNING ALL!  START OF A NEW SCHOOL
YEAR HERE IN COWETA--WISHING EVERYONE A
GREAT YEAR!

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Porductive Summer~~

Just returned a week ago from our trip to the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. I would so move there if I could only pack my children and grand children up and move them with me.  Had a wonderful time beating the 114 degree heat here in Oklahoma.  We love the mountains!

Public school starts tomorrow.  I have to say, as I look back on my summer, that it was productive.  Planned and pulled off a vintage barn wedding for my daughter Skylar, helped plan and had my 30 year class reunion, (how time flies by) had my book release, and ran over almost 100 children through my back yard over the course of 2 months for swimming lessons.  I also painted my living room an autumy-yellow, but because of the list above, I have still yet to complete one small section of trim.  It's so unlike me to leave any project undone, and it's driving me crazy staring at the sage green paint peeping out from under the new hue  for the past 3 weeks or so. Monty returns to work tomorrow after his two week vacation and I have vowed to get back on a schedule and complete the paint job this week.

I hope everyone had a fantastic, productive summer with lots of family time.  It's almost football season!!! Boomer Sooner!!!!

Love and blessings,

Jody