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-Middle Grade / Young Adult Fantasy Author-
Ellie Collins
Northwest Aerials has been in my life since I was 2. I am going to miss my home-away-from-home terribly, but I take with me important life lessons, amazing friendships and incredible memories. Thank you, Northwest Aerials; you'll always live on in my heart!
Yesterday every one of my teachers (plus my assistant principal) showed up at my house, honking their horns & chanting my name through a bullhorn. They brought me a "Class of 2020" sweatshirt with the names of all my classmates on it & a cool personalized sign to put in my yard. It was so awesome! I'm excited to go to high school next year, but I'm really going to miss this amazing group of spectacular teachers! 💗💗💗
It's awesome to track acts of kindness. When Mom and I went to Miami a few months ago, we were told that the hotel had overbooked and they were going to send us somewhere else. That would be bad, because the whole event was taking place at THAT hotel, so it would be hard to stay somewhere else. A very nice man (we called him "Nice Guy" until we learned later that his name is Moses), who was also checking in, gave us HIS room and he went to the other hotel. Wasn't that SO nice of him?! So later that night my mom won a $100 Amazon gift card and we made it our mission to find Nice Guy and give him the card in thanks. We finally found him at the awards ceremony and I was able to give it to him. Today I got a message from Moses on Instagram telling me he donated the card to a local library (in Connecticut). The library is one of a few in the country that has an instrument lending program, and they used the card to purchase a guitar for that program. Now the original act of kindness from Moses means that many more people will have the opportunity to gift us all with their music!
If I ever write a book where my character has a nemesis, I will now be able to better relate to how he or she will feel. I've struggled more this season with my beam back handspring than I ever have with any other skill. At my lowest point I even considered quitting gymnastics all together. But people who love and care about me encouraged, cheered, and were strong for me until I found my own strength to fight back. I'm still far from having a perfect back handspring on the beam, but I'm beating it. I've got it's number and I won't give up until I have it conquered.
Here was my BIG MOMENT at the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards! I was SO nervous but SO excited at the same time! Then the guy totally threw me off when he spun me around! He hadn't done that with anyone else and I had NO IDEA what was going on! :)
TODAY IS THE BIG DAY ~ It's a BOOK BIRTHDAY for Mylee In The Mirror, and I'm SO EXCITED!!!
What an incredible journey it has been so far! I'll bet the next 6 months will be even better! :)
I donated a book for the first time yesterday at my Region 2 XCel Gymnastics meet. The proceeds went to the American Cancer Society. It felt awesome to contribute to the cause!
My first copies of my first book arrived in the mail Wednesday! My mom had to pick me up from school for tramp & tumble practice, so she took the box with her, knowing how anxious I was to open it. I was SO. EXCITED!!! when I opened it in the hallway at school! Before bed last night, Mom asked me to describe for Mr. Geez (my publisher) and the rest of the folks at Fresh Ink Group, how I felt when I got the books.
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