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2011 in review – fam, thanx so much for your support!

fam, wordpress emailed me a gift that i wanted to share with you. it's my  2011 annual report for my address: house of corrections blog.

thank you so much for your patience and support. new to the blogging game, lawd knows i wouldn't have made it far without you. LOL!

here's an excerpt:

a San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,400 times in 2011. if it were a cable car, it would take about 23 trips to carry that many people.

click here to see the complete report!

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Address: House of Corrections – The Perfect Holiday Gift

fam, it's beginning to look a lot like christmas…and i have one more present for you — the making of the "address: house of corrections" book trailer, starring the PHENOMENAL shanie evans.

yes, "a:hc" is a dramatic work, but we had sooo much fun shooting the trailer that i just had to share the magic that took place behind the scenes. hope you enjoy it. and thank you once again for your support!

merry christmas!

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Address: House of Corrections The Perfect Holiday Gift! – hey, fam! got another holiday trailer for you. the PHENOM… http://ow.ly/1gj8dl

Address: House of Corrections – The Perfect Holiday Gift!

hey, fam! got another holiday trailer for you. the PHENOMENAL shanie evans was so darn good, you know i had to do more than one! lol!

hope you're enjoying them. merry christmas and thanx for your last minute purchases!

gratefully yours,

monice

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Address: House of Corrections – The Perfect Holiday Gift!

dear fam,

it has been a long road and am soooo grateful for you taking this journey with me. this book has changed me life in more ways than i could ever share, but the time has come for me to focus my full energies on the next story in the series, "the mailman's daughter." before i do, though, i wanted to make one last push for "a:hc."

so if you have any folks in your life on your christmas, hanukkah, kwanzaa list who love to read, maybe you could purchase "address: house of corrections" for them as a gift? it's available on amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com and kindle and i'll be rolling out trailers today, wednesday and thursday to promote it. here's the first one …

thank you one more again for your everlasting support. i appreciate you and hope you enjoy the trailers!

all best,

monice.

p.s. took a minute, but i've finally found my way into "the mailman's daughter" and i hope to finish it in 2012 and publish in the spring of 2013. i'm sooo excited!

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i apologize….

by monice mitchell simms

Question: What is it like to be an author?

Answer:  Isolating.  Exhilarating.  Absorbing.  Depressing.  Isolating.  Urgent and pressured and stressful.  Exciting.  Terrifying.  Profoundly saddening.  Challenging.  Isolating.  Humbling.  Amazing. ~ Tara K. Harper, Science Fiction Author. 

thank you, tara. so i'm not going crazy. lol!

o.k., fam, i've finally gotten myself together enough to pen you this long overdue apology.

i don't know what i was thinking. writing my first novel, address: house of corrections? great idea. making my first novel, the beginning of a trilogy? wth! why no one slapped me upside the head, i don't know!

i saw a movie recently – the title escapes me now — but in it, the main female character was a new author, whose first book – though fabulous – went basically unnoticed.  knee-deep in crippling writer's block, her former lover asked her why she wasn't writing another book. she answered and i'm paraphrasing…that she had lived with her first book her whole life, but her second book had her constipated.

what happened for the rest of the movie, i can't tell you. but that one conversation has been haunting me for days.

it all makes sense now. i've been stuck. but not just stuck, afraid. but not just afraid, discombobulated.

fam, i truly apologize. you've been very patient. and i should have completed the second installment of the trilogy – the mailman's daughter – by now.

but you see, this author's life is new to me. the life of a writer? that i know. but to be fair, my prior life as a scribe has always been fragmented.

as a spoken word artist, i got to perform and commune my fellow/sister poets.

as a playwright, i got to create characters and situations that i was blessed to see dramatized onstage.

as a journalist, i was forced out of my shyness and got to interview all types of interesting folks.

as a screenwriter/filmmaker, i got to create a world on paper and then collaborate with a team of artists to bring mine and others' vision to life on the screen.

and as an audio book producer, i got to direct a cast of hollywood's finest "unknown" actors for my audio series, address: house of corrections.

with each genre , i – a self-proclaimed loner – penned the words, but then created situations where i could  interact and engage with others.

this gig as an author, though, is solely a solitary confined expedition that quite frankly, i wasn't expecting nor was prepared for…until now. 

today, i say goodbye to the three p's – pooh poohing, procrastination and pussyfooting.

i've also rearranged and uncluttered my work space, redecorated our bathroom and bought a new welcome mat for our front door.

fam, i am ready to embrace my new life as an author and finish penning the mailman's daughter.

my only prayer is that you believe it's worth the wait.

living by my pen…again,

monice

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