New blurb for Deathbed Gift

After a bizarre, unexplained, gift from her grandmother, seventeen-year old Mya Teeters welcomes a cottage getaway with friends, but when she discovers a bag of jewels and her friend is kidnapped it catapults her deep into a tragic local tale of love, betrayal, and one man’s quest for power that is now within his reach.

After managing the terrifying but successful recovery of her friend without surrendering the jewels, a shocking secret is revealed…Mya is related to the kidnappers, and the gift from her grandmother is the key to unleashing a power that could change her life forever, but can she protect it from the one man who’ll do anything to get it?

I think I'm in the land of query hell. Just doing my due diligence and wow its crazy how many different ways you can create THE perfect query to an agent/publisher.

I'm almost to the finish line...my first novel. That alone is an amazing feat, but now the hard part. Letting it go out into the world. Only my writing tutor has read it but she claims that it's a page turner and a wonderful young adult mystery. I'm hoping she's right. We'll see.

My name is Wendy and I am directionally challenged. Yes it's true. Ask me how to get somewhere and I'll give you a blank stare. It's been embarassing when someone asks me how to get somewhere simple and I just don't know. I have gotten a bit better over the years, but still my husband could tell me we are heading to Toronto and really be taking me to Collingwood and I'd have no idea. When my husband came home with a GPS I was ecstatic. This little device could save me from always having to stop to ask directions and take some fear away from not knowing where I was going. One problem is I think I'm smarter than it sometimes. Thankfully it redirects me and gets me back to where I should be heading.

First post..Wow. what to say? Some advice. Leaders teach us to look up, stand tall and look the world right in the eye. But remember to look down sometimes or else you'll crush a lot of bugs on the sidewalk.