Saturday, March 10, 2012

The Tree

Here I am planted
in the mountains
of the white

I have seen more,
more than I wanted.
I have hid a soldier
from a savage.

 I have been
a urinal for a man
A baby was once
tied to my trunk

He cried from sun up
to sun down
He learned not to cry
for the enemy

I have been refuge
to the Mountain Lion
from three barking dogs

I have seen the sun rise
and the sun set on
the smokey mountain
with ashes blowing

I have seen wars and
murders right beside me.
but nothing,
nothing could prepare me
for the sadness to come.

one day a girl walked by
she has a hose in one hand
it drug along the red, red dirt.
Her tears streaming down

she took the hose.
What is she doing?
She tied it around her neck.
I wanted to break.
I tried to break.

Then she jumped off my branch
there she hung,
for a moment....
Then I bent.
There she fell.
Stunned and mad.
Up she got.
Why'd she do such a thing.
I'll never know.
And no one else will.

She brushed off her knees.
She walks by often.
But her friend,
I don't know where she is.
The girl is a lone...
in the world,
in her land,
in school,
and home.
Alone. 

Brittany Geragotelis

I like her story because she self published a story on Wattpad, just what everyone told her not to do and this got her offers galore.
Her Book "Life's a Witch" gathered 18 million reads!
Read her whole story here on INDIE
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She has been writing since she was 15 and writes for a magazine. This helps, but I am inspired.

Interactive Book Club includes Facebook Friends!


www.bookshout.com

"Illian said his BookShout venture is a “a group interaction reading platform,” and not simply about algorithms. He called the current focus on discoverability a “symptom—you don’t need a bigger bookstore, you need a more focused bookstore. Friends are more important than algorithms.” He continued, “The value of Facebook is the people and the data, the ability to access relationships. You buy books because your friends tell you about them.” Indeed Illian even called out Amazon. “When will Amazon stop? When they win,” he said, emphasizing, however, that there is an opportunity for authors and publishers to compete against the online retailer. “Amazon is big, they sell everything, but they aren’t based around people. It's based around selling you stuff." Publishers Weekly See the whole article at Publisher Weekly.
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 This is changing authorship, reading clubs, and what we how we use our technology. Exciting stuff.