{"id":4137,"date":"2022-12-06T03:24:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T03:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jennielsen.com\/?p=4137"},"modified":"2022-12-06T03:24:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T03:24:12","slug":"im-back-finally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jennielsen.com\/archives\/4137","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Back (Finally)!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My friends,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am SO SORRY to have dropped off the face of this earth where this blog is concerned. It\u2019s been on my mind, but over the past several months, I have:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Written one book. It wasn\u2019t great. I ditched it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Written another book, which I\u2019m now editing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Traveled to eleven states for school visits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Written a screenplay, which I\u2019m preparing to pitch.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Received a grant for some research travel.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And a bunch of other stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Including, preparing to release ICEBERG, a story of the Titanic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/jennielsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Iceberg-cover.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"674\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/jennielsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Iceberg-cover-674x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jennielsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Iceberg-cover-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/jennielsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Iceberg-cover-600x912.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jennielsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Iceberg-cover-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/jennielsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Iceberg-cover-768x1167.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jennielsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Iceberg-cover-1011x1536.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/jennielsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Iceberg-cover-1348x2048.jpg 1348w, https:\/\/jennielsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Iceberg-cover.jpg 1678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the summary:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The thrilling story of a young girl who stows away onboard the&nbsp;<strong><em>Titanic<\/em><\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>and as she explores, attempting to find answers to her many questions about the ship, suddenly finds herself caught up in the desperate struggle to survive after it strikes an iceberg.<br><br>Hazel Rothbury is traveling all alone from her home in England aboard the celebrated ship&nbsp;<em>Titanic<\/em>. Following the untimely death of her father, Hazel\u2019s mother is sending her to the US to work in a factory, so that she might send money back home to help her family make ends meet.<br><br>But Hazel harbors a secret dream: She wants to be a journalist, and she just knows that if she can write and sell a story about the&nbsp;<em>Titanic&#8217;s<\/em>&nbsp;maiden voyage, she could earn enough money to support her family and not have to go to a sweatshop. When Hazel discovers that mother didn\u2019t send her with enough money for a ticket, she decides she must stow away onboard the storied ship.<br><br>With the help of a porter named Charlie and a sweet first-class passenger named Sylvia, Hazel explores the opulent ship in secret, but a haunting mystery quickly finds her. The danger only intensifies when calamity strikes, and readers will be caught up in the terror and suspense alongside Hazel as she fights to save her friends and herself.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ICEBERG will release on March 7, 2023, but I\u2019m already excited to share it with you. Because it\u2019s the holiday season and because I\u2019ve been so absent, I\u2019m going to do a BIG giveaway, of ten advanced copies of the book!<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>You can enter only once. In comments, simply give me one cool fact about the Titanic, but make it cool. Ordinary facts that everyone knows are worth one entry. Incredibly cool facts are worth three entries, and the rest are in the middle for two entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision for how cool each fact is solely mine, and based on nothing other than how interesting it is to me. I won\u2019t share feedback on how many points I gave your entry, because honestly, did you see that list of stuff above? Most of it is still going on so I won\u2019t have that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Winners will be announced soon after the end of the contest on December 22<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0at 10 pm ET.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(And I promise to try to keep up on the blog a little better! In my next post, I\u2019ll answer a few of the questions that you all are emailing me about.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends, I am SO SORRY to have dropped off the face of this earth where this blog is concerned. It\u2019s been on my mind, but over the past several months, I have: Including, preparing to release ICEBERG, a story of the Titanic. 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