A special gift for subscribers

Dear Friend,

I have wanted to be a writer since the third grade when I wrote my first story. In high school, I fell in love with classic literature and poetry and began a memoir-ish fictional story. I wrote poetry (and still dabble with it). As a young adult, I started another novel, took a Children’s Writing course where I had to snail mail my stories and wait for weeks to receive feedback, which was snail mailed to me. I’ve always wanted to be a writer. Several years ago, I realized there’s an intrinsic quality to writers. It isn’t like other jobs where you apply and get hired and then work hard to get promoted. Writers see what’s not there and examine what is in front of them. Their imaginations are playgrounds with grammar structures and sandboxes filled with words. They possess qualities that cannot be turned on and off. So you see, I’ve been a writer all along. I have some successes and some disappointments with publishing my work, but that’s part of the “job,” if a writer hopes to earn any sort of income at all. That brings us to my dream of publishing novels. I’ve been chasing this dream, setting goals, and putting in the hours to learn and grow as a writer in the hopes of publishing. This newsletter helps me connect with you and other people who would enjoy reading my work because agents and publishers look at how many potential readers a writer has to determine if their novel is a sellable product, something that can cover the cost to publish it. Writing is art, but it’s also a business. So, the short story I’ve shared in this issue of the Kaleidoscope Chronicles is my free gift to you. It is my way of saying thank you for being a subscriber and supporter. I appreciate you so very much! This story is about one of the minor characters (a friend of the main character) who has something akin to a cameo appearance in my novel, Sandcastle Sabbatical. I ask that you do not share it; either by copy and paste it, forwarding it, or other means. Please feel free to share my website and encourage others to subscribe to my newsletter.

Thank you again,

Julia Kay