Hey, so I thought I'd share this. When I finally said that my book was ready, well my Dad told his Dad and so my Granddad told us something pretty interesting we learned. Turns out, pretty cool fact, my great grandmother was a really famous writer from the past. Her name was Eleanor Hibbert and she was British. Which is pretty cool because she must have had a British accent then and I love hearing the sound of British accents! She wrote over a hundred books and sold more then 100 million books! Wow, I'm going to have to really step it up to break that record. :) :) :) Anyways, apparently she used many pen names too, and my grandfather told my Dad who told me that one of them was Victoria Holt. Well, I looked went on a Google search and turns out she also went under the names Eleanor Buford, Elbur Ford, Katheen Kellow, Anne Percival, and Ellalice Tate. I don't know why she choose pen names, but I thought about doing it for my first book too almost. But nah...I'm just using my real name because that's the real me. I was going to use I. Adorya Boks as my pen name. It was a joke because on the show Seinfield there's an actor on there who real last name was Costanza, but in real life he apparently always purposely pronounced it "Can't stand you." Ha ha ha, pretty clever. So the joke between Dad and me was that my pen name would be I. Adorya Boks, as in I adore you books, because I like to read a lot. Well, now I'm writing a lot so there's less reading time, but it's all good because I enjoy it. I've got so many ideas and I can't wait to get them out.
Also, another ironic past history thing. Turn out I am also related to Sir Christopher Hibbert. A "Sir" because he's did history books for the Queen or something, and it' just also fantastically awesome because he too was a famous writer and he wrote about all these historical type books. And I also believe it was "Sir" because he knighted by the Queen or something too, which is really cool, because that means I'm related to a Knight. He did a lot of his work in the 1900's too just like Eleanor Hibbert. So, true, I haven't read any of either of Eleanor Hibbert's work or Sir Christopher Hibbert's work, but I think it's pretty amazing to find out there are writer's in my family line. It's like in my blood! Maybe even I'll get famous someday too! Until then, I'll just keep story telling away!
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