Pink Think: “Every person you admire, every person who has accomplished something in life, has overcome fear.” – Cherrie Currie
Photo of my author-friend Karen Hoover playing a flute at a signing for her novel The Sapphire Flute
On Saturday, I attended a book reading/signing event for my author-friend Karen Hoover. She is such a giving, positive person. She deserves everything good coming her way. She read her first chapter to her debut novel The Sapphire Flute (click here for my review). Suspenseful, emotionally compelling passages. And her flute duet with Paulette Inman on harp was beautiful. Congratulations, Karen!!
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I am reading Libba Bray’s Rebel Angels. I didn’t think I would like it, but I do! I love how she has strong female characters, mixes the supernatural with the Victorian age and puts in sly bits of humor. And that’s just after reading the first six chapters of this “companion book” to her first bestselling novel A Great and Terrible Beauty. I cannot wait to see how Gemma’s forbidden relationship with Kartik develops.
This past week, I also read the intense autobiography Neon Angel by Cherrie Currie. Cherrie Currie was the frontgirl of the ’70s hard rock girl band The Runaways (Joan Jett was the guitarist; a movie recently came out based on this book). Cherrie Currie writes at the end:
Every person you admire, every person who has accomplished something in life – doctors, lawyers, writers, movie stars, scientists – has overcome fear. Each one of them has dared to risk failure for a chance at success. It wasn’t until I faced my fears without alcohol and drugs that I began down the road to my life of today; a happy, healthy life filled with the magic of possibility.
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It’s been a full week for me of inspiration from other writers. Like Libba Bray, Karen Hoover and Cherrie Currie, we can face our fears, believe in ourselves, and make our dreams happen.
Whom do YOU admire and why?
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