Most 12-year-olds will spend their summer holidays doing summer holiday stuff - long days at the beach, spending time with friends, perhaps taking a family trip.
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SheB次元官网网址檒l be spending at least part of her summer between Grade 7 and Grade 8 promoting her debut novel, Wayward Fox.
B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 a chapter book. There are 52 chapters, including the prologue and the epilogue,B次元官网网址� said Aurora. B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 just over 60,000 words.
B次元官网网址淚tB次元官网网址檚 about these three foxes who are siblings, who go out and try to find themselves in what they call the wide world. When they return, they come backB次元官网网址� kind of like B次元官网网址榳hole.B次元官网网址� TheyB次元官网网址檝e had their adventure, know who they are, and can enjoy their home.B次元官网网址�
The personal growth story, while fiction, does have somewhat of a personal connection to Aurora.
B次元官网网址淭he three foxes are all siblings and I kind of view the three of them as different points of my relationship with my brother,B次元官网网址� she said. B次元官网网址淪o that was perhaps the inspiration for the characters, but there really isnB次元官网网址檛 anything (biographical) about it.B次元官网网址�
The book has been a long time in the making. Aurora has been working on it for three years.
B次元官网网址淭he writing process only took about one-and-a-half years. The editing process took the rest,B次元官网网址� she said. B次元官网网址淢y grandma helped a ton wth that. She read it, like, 30 times, and kept pointing out all these little problems. I was editing the story, while she was editing the grammar, so we worked together on it, for one-and-a-half years.B次元官网网址�
Aurora said her desire to delve into novel writing came as a result of her reading.
B次元官网网址淚 was obsessed with a (novel) series called Warrior Cats when I was about nine,B次元官网网址� she said. B次元官网网址淪o I wanted to write some fanfiction for Warrior Cats, which I did. But I didnB次元官网网址檛 finish it, I didnB次元官网网址檛 really like it, and so I tried again. Eventually I thought, B次元官网网址榟ow about, no,B次元官网网址� and I came up with something on my own, something that wasnB次元官网网址檛 Warrior Cat related. ThatB次元官网网址檚 how it started.B次元官网网址�
Aurora said she already knows what she wants to do with her life.
B次元官网网址淚 really want to be an author - that would be cool,B次元官网网址� she said. B次元官网网址淚f that could pay the bills, that is definitely what I want to do.B次元官网网址�
Aurora will have a book signing at the Downtown Courtenay Market Day, July 16, at the Laughing Oyster Bookshop.
terry.farrell@comoxvalleyrecord.com
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