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Ever since I was little, I loved to write. My grandmother, Jacqueline Pelham (who I’ll call Nana), anauthor who now resides in The Woodlands, had this old-school typewriter at her older home inHouston. When I would go over there for sleepovers, I remember thinking the typewriter was socool, and I would make up my own stories – some of which I know Nana and my mom still have,even though they were remakes of Spongebob or something weird like that.

Since then, my grandmother is now a published author. Aside from writing short stories andpoetry in many literary journals, including Writers Market, newspapers and newsletters, she haspublished an award-winning novel, “Under the Rose,” and just finished her newest novel, “APromise to Die For.” After recently reading “A Promise to Die For,” I am even more proud to call hermy Nana.

As I said earlier, I’ve always loved to write, but I didn’t know I wanted to pursue it. In highschool we lived with Nana while our house was being built, and she helped edit all of my collegeessays, and my oh so difficult Dual Credit English final paper. Needless to say, with her help, Ialways did well on those papers, however, when I was accepted into Baylor University I picked acompletely opposite route – Biology with a Pre-Dental track, yikes.Through my Baylor endeavors, I finally changed my major to Journalism in my junior year, with afocus in Public Relations. I talked to my mom and Nana before I made this change, and they bothurged me to go for it. Nana was, of course, excited and supportive, because she always supportedmy writing.

Now, I intern with a national college newspaper, The Odyssey Online, and I’m working withWoodlands Online this summer, and guess who shares AND prints every article I write? Nana. Herfeedback on all of my published (and non-published) pieces is so helpful and so important to me.Honestly, I just get excited for her to read all of my stuff, because I know she gets it.

Now my family lives across the street from her, and when we get together, we always get to talkabout my journalism, her books, and more, and that’s super special. Although I want to go intothe public field of journalism, reading her novel, “A Promise to Die For,” has really sparked somebook-writing interest to me, so we’ll see what happens in the future!

Read the book review, "A Promise To Die For," by award-winning, local Woodlands author,Jacqueline Pelham, written by blogger, Hailey Pelham at Book Review: “A Promise To Die For” bylocal author, Jacqueline Pelham.

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 01, 2015 - 08:10:00 AM CST by cepilgrim314

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