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Attention: Peter & Jack Fans

Letters to Elise is getting ready to come out. You know what that means? That's right. Beta time. In case you don't know, a beta reader is  (according Wikipedia) a person who reads a written work, generally fiction, with what has been described as "a critical eye, with the aim of improving grammar, spelling, characterization, and general style of a story prior to its release to the general public." But with Letters to Elise , I'm going to bit a more specific about what I'm looking for because it's different than my other books. As I've explained before, it's less of a narrative. There's not a plot in the true sense. It's letters Peter wrote to Elise and a few journal entries. And also - I'm not sure how this will play to My Blood Approves enthusiasts. I'd like to get a few readers on both sides of the spectrum - those that are 100% Team Peter and those that are 100% Team Jack - to see how it plays to both sides. And some people that...

the root of the root

If you could say that an entire novella could be based on a single scene that lasts less than a minute in a single movie, then that scene would be the one that follows, and that book would be Letters to Elise . That film is Candy starring the late great Heath Ledger. The poem is "i carry your heart" by e e cummings (read his poems, if you haven't). Here's the poem in it's entirety (capitalization and format is his):   i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you her...

Teaser for My Blood Approves Fans...