Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-35094757-20180517232827/@comment-33002749-20180518220826

I am going to sneak into the conversation and instead of telling what I like to read I want to instead take a moment and be a very proud mom. My daughter, my first born, who I sit here and picture all the adorable things she did when she was growing up, had only one goal in life. She wanted to be an author. She loved to be read to as a baby. She was so cute, she would bring you a book and cuddle in your lap and let you read and get down and bring you another. Well until she was about 14 months old. Then she would bring you a book, ask you to read it, and after you read so much she would grab it back, say thanks mommy and get down, grab her "friends" (her stuffed toys and dolls) and "read" the story to them word for word, even turning the pages when they should be turned. Well she wasn't really reading she was memorizing what I had read to her and repeating it back. It wasn't long before she was doing this with her TV shows and movies.

The first video she ever owned was Cinderella, she watched it all the time. We lived with my mom for the first 5 years of Megan's life because it was beneficial for my Mom and I and Mom enjoyed having us around, and we would give each other funny looks trying to figure out what Megan was doing when she played. She would gather up her tea set unto one of her books, put a few stuffed toys around, and then walk around and fall down and say OOOOOHH. We finally figured it out, it was a scene from the movie, when the mice scared Cinderella when she was carrying the tea tray. When she loves a movie she learns it, forward, backward and well anyway you can think her. Give her any line from Apollo 13, ask her who said it, the line before it, the line after it, who it was said to, and where it came in the movie and she will get it right every time.

But that is not what this post is really about. Megan has become the author she wanted to be. She started self publishing books in 2013, on Amazon and a few other sites. Because of my most recent health issues I can't read much at a time because it puts me to sleep, so I haven't read much of her books, but I have known the characters most of her life, as she has been developing them as early as age 3. She writes mainly fantasy with some science fiction every now and then. She has finally started to actually publish a lot more because she had a friend teach her a bit about how to promote her books and pick up more followers. She isn't making a fortune, and if you want to check out her books on Amazon, they really are very cheap.

Here is a link to her page: https://www.amazon.com/Megan-Cutler/e/B00KDPQAF6/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0

Please do not feel you have to go there or even read her books. I just wanted to brag a bit. It isn't often I get to point a finger and say "That's my daughter!"

Diane