Teffy and the Golden Spoon

Quote of the day: "Young men and women who serve missions are never the same. They return home with qualities and strengths that seem to come from no other experience. They know, as they never knew before, that this work is true and that it is the most important work on the face of the earth. They return home with a desire to continue to serve. They have established a foundation on which to grow in future responsibilities."--President Gordon B. Hinckley, Dec. 1986 (Found this quote today and thought it was AWESOME, especially since I'm planning on serving a mission.)




Well I guess it's time, and an exciting time at that, to announce the name of my sequel to Teffy: The Search for Nephew Ninky. And the sequel (which's manuscript is now up to 127 full pages) is: Teffy and the Golden Spoon.

I'll let ya all in on a little exclusive secret... this book was inspired by a little golden spoon, which came in a set of assorted mini jars of jelly. The jellies were a Christmas gift to my family, and I adored them because they were cute and small (the jellies themselves weren't so great.) The spoon was odd, but a little treasure. It kicked around the kitchen for a while and every time I saw it I thought, hmm, what a cool little spoon. It was shiny and little and curvy and just, well, sweet! Needless to say, I looked at the little spoon a lot, and my big brother used it quite often to eat cereal, just to be an idiot.
So I ninja'd the spoon one day and thought up a story... That basic plot idea, I realized, could be added on to the manuscript that I was currently working on at the time, which was TTSFNN (Teffy: The Search for Nephew Ninky.) And actually, because of this sequel, there is now in planning a third and even a fourth novel in the Naytel Journal series. So basically you could say that this little spoon inspired three entire books. Crazy, eh?
Did I ever mention that the Naytel Journal series I have planned out was inspired by a horse mask I made when I was 14? And my first book was inspired by a tiny handcuff key. Crazy how the brain works...
Teffy and the Golden Spoon already has a self-publishing contract with AuthorHouse and I hope to have it out by this Fall. Here are some pictures for your enjoyment: