Forever Eating Elephants

     Have you ever eaten an elephant? You know tried do something so big it overwhelmed you? Well, I have eaten a few elephants in my lifetime and I think that I am getting pretty good at it now.

    

     My first elephant was writing my first novel. Wow, that was a hard one to chew! It took me six years and I must say it didn't go down very smoothly—I almost choked to death a few times before I was done.

    

     The next elephant I set my sites on consuming was a 300 mile bike ride in three days. Some of my extended family members completed the ride, and for years that elephant paraded back and forth in front of me begging to be eaten. I finished that elephant fifteen years after I told it I would eat it and just before my 40^th birthday.

     

     The elephant I currently am planning to consume is internet marketing/social media. I am determined to get on the outside of this one if it kills me. I just sat down at the table, so stay tuned if you want to see how fast I am able to force this wily one down.

     

     There have been a few other elephants I have eaten in my lifetime; some I chose to eat, and some I was forced to eat. I won’t mention them all. Some were palatable, and some were tough, and some were just plain gut-wrenching, but no matter what type of elephant you are eating I promise you the technique for ingesting them is always the same: the only way to eat an entire elephant is one bite at a time!

     

     Hope this helps you find the courage to try Elephant in the near future. They might be an acquired taste, but I warn you, if you ever start eating them . . . it is very hard to stop!   

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Life Happened

Okay so it has been a little while since I posted. What is that saying? I think it goes something like this . . . "life is what happens when you are making plans" Well, life happened to me for a little bit and now I am ready to blog. And as the heroine in my newest novel THE UPLANDERS would say, "I know we are going to have a wonderful journey together. I feel it in my center."

So to update you all on the writing journey . . . I finished my first Y/A fantasy novel in October. It is the first book of a series I have planned, and after I finished writing it I wondered where fantasy had been all my life . . . I loved the story that much!

Publication is also pending on that one but if you are just burning to read more of my work (and I hope you are) keep checking wattpad.com. I have a profile there and I will soon be posting pages of my newest story. It will be in the Y/A, romance/chick lit genre and so far it promises to be a real raucous good time. It is called, MY EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES ON GA GA ISLAND. It is about a girl who makes an impossible wish over her seventeenth birthday cake and turns her whole life upside down.

You will be able to read it unedited as I write it. That should be an interesting experience for both of us don't you think--Elizabeth Hathenbruck raw and uncensored. How scary is that?

Oh, by the way the adoption agency had to be put on hold for the time being. I will keep you posted on my dreams of helping little children find families somehow, someway, or somewhere, as it unfolds.

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