Overprotected by Jennifer Laurens

Ashlyn: A lonely society princess living in New York City. Daddy hired you to be my bodyguard. Colin: Childhood enemy, now her protector. Daddy thought I'd be safe. He thought I'd never fall in love. He thought he could keep me forever. Charles: obsessed with keeping her safe, keeping her his, he hires the one person he knows she could never fall in love with: Colin. Daddy was wrong.

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Dejection, Dejection, Dejection

When I first heard the phrase 'crisis of confidence', I associated it with Tom Cruise and his cookie cutter movies. Top Gun, he's a fighter pilot until he has a crisis of confidence and he can't be a fighter pilot anymore. Days of Thunder, he's a race car driver until he has a crisis of confidence and he can't be a race car driver any more. Cocktail, he's a bar tender until...you get the picture.

I never understood the phrase until I realised it applied to me.

Recently my confidence took a battering, and I'm not even all that sure why. One or two minor things happened yet it made me look at my work as though it was a fearful thing. I dreaded reading anything back, terrified it would be crap. As for actual writing? Forget about it.

My fellow Wenches over on the Wench Writers blog know of my knock of confidence, and awesome as they are, didn't entertain my dejection, told me not to be daft and get on with it. But this isn't the type of feeling that goes away by someone else's approval - it can only be cured by your own.

People can tell you till they're blue in the face that you have talent, but until you believe it for yourself, nothing will change. As of this post, I am still unpublished. When I started taking my writing seriously in 2009, I knew it would be a long hard battle. But this is the first time I entertained the notion of failing.

This isn't a pity post, more a curious post. Have any of you taken a battering? How did you get over it? DID you get over it?

Sigh. Until next time. Fingers crossed I find my mojo again!

Pxx

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Book Review: Anna and the French Kiss

Product details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Dutton Books (2 Dec 2010)
• Language English
• ISBN-10: 0525423273
• ISBN-13: 978-0525423270
• Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 15 x 2.8 cm
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars 

There is only one thing that comes to mind when I think of Anna and the French Kiss - the thick, gooey hot chocolate Meredith and Anna make. The entire book was like thick, gooey hot chocolate. Only with cute boys. Even better. 

Anna and the French Kiss was such an enjoyable book to sink into - and it's definitely what you do. The story envelopes you and wraps itself around your heart. 

Anna herself has a great voice - perfect for any YA lover. She's flawed but cute and interesting with real problems facing teens and the does-he-like-me-does-he-not dilemma is brilliantly played out through the whole book making each chapter rise in tension. And Etienne St. Claire? Um, wow. 

The supporting cast is awesome too - and I rarely feel that way. There wasn't one character when they were speaking I was quietly waiting for another to appear. Each storyline was fab and kept my interest - even those of the supporting cast. You grow to care about each of the characters in their own way. It made me wish my parents had sent me to boarding school in the City of Light. 

Anna and the French Kiss is beautiful and just ahhhhhh..... A definite one-more-chapter book. 

I can't wait to re-read it. 

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