#183 -- First Kiss
A surprise: this week's prompt has a potential prize! My (Laini's) new book, Lips Touch: Three Times comes out TODAY from Scholastic! YAY!!! If you've been here at Sunday Scribblings for a long time, you might know that the book started life right here. The whole reason Meg and I founded this site was to get ourselves writing for fun. For myself, I'd spent more than two years on my first novel, and after it was done I really wanted to do something different: quick, fun, not precious. The kind of writing where you don't know or care where it's going and serendipities can just roll off your fingertips. So I wrote short fictions and had a blast, and I noticed after a few months that a number of these little fictions shared a theme:
Kissing. First kisses. Kisses with consequences. My husband Jim had the idea that the stories could be a book, and since he's an illustrator and we love to work together, we thought it could be an illustrated book. I spent some time revising and expanding the stories, Jim did some sample art, and to our delight, editor Arthur A. Levine at Scholastic went along with our vision and now, several years later, here is that book:
It's got gorgeous art by Jim:
And it's printed in two colors, which is really unusual for a novel. It's so beautiful, I'm swooning! Also, to my great delight, it has so far garnered two starred reviews, from Publisher's Weekly and Booklist. Yippeee!
All this is to say, thank you very much, Sunday Scribblings, and thank you Meg for the prompts without which these three stories would not exist. And thank YOU all for participating! The prompt this week is "First Kiss" and if you're interested in winning a signed copy of the book, you can email me your entry as per the guidelines in this post. I'll be picking two winners.
Whether you enter or not, this week write about first kisses: yours or someone else's or an entirely fictional one. Have fun!
(I've still been unsuccessful in resolving my Linky issues, so put comments in the box, but perhaps Meg can swoop in and fix it?)
Cheers!
Kissing. First kisses. Kisses with consequences. My husband Jim had the idea that the stories could be a book, and since he's an illustrator and we love to work together, we thought it could be an illustrated book. I spent some time revising and expanding the stories, Jim did some sample art, and to our delight, editor Arthur A. Levine at Scholastic went along with our vision and now, several years later, here is that book:
It's got gorgeous art by Jim:
And it's printed in two colors, which is really unusual for a novel. It's so beautiful, I'm swooning! Also, to my great delight, it has so far garnered two starred reviews, from Publisher's Weekly and Booklist. Yippeee!
All this is to say, thank you very much, Sunday Scribblings, and thank you Meg for the prompts without which these three stories would not exist. And thank YOU all for participating! The prompt this week is "First Kiss" and if you're interested in winning a signed copy of the book, you can email me your entry as per the guidelines in this post. I'll be picking two winners.
Whether you enter or not, this week write about first kisses: yours or someone else's or an entirely fictional one. Have fun!
(I've still been unsuccessful in resolving my Linky issues, so put comments in the box, but perhaps Meg can swoop in and fix it?)
Cheers!
66 Comments:
I guess I get to be first this week. I hope you enjoy reading about my first kiss as much as I enjoyed remembering it.
http://cricket51.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/this-magic-moment-2/
http://robotcupcake.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/first-kiss/
Enjoy!
A first kiss story with questions
http://wordfodder.blogspot.com/
C.F.
Please find mine at http://swapnap.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/an-evening-to-remember-2/
Congratulations on the publication! It's not easy to get past the editors so you must have done well!
Me again! This time with an entry.
http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-kiss.html
Kiss
first kiss...
http://wordiminuta.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-kiss.html
Short and sweet this week, just like that first kiss was. Still took a while longer to write though, and that's not including the time I spent travelling back down memory's lane.
Oops, and I forgot to include the link. Here it is.
http://writersnoteobook.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-kiss.html
http://poetryfromxegbp.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-kiss.html
Joining in the fray, for the first time....
http://creativeclutter-mel.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-scribblings-first-kiss.html
think I'll send it off as an entry also...:)
Congrats on the book launch!!
~brightest blessings~
I hope you enjoy my little piece of nonsense!
http://keithsramblings.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-kiss.html
http://facefirstintothedashboard.blogspot.com/2009/10/finally-october-is-here.html
That is awesome! :):) Congrats on your book!
Hello! Love the choice of subject! :D
A Movement Of The Heavens
Hope you enjoy! Always kiss like you might never kiss again! :D
Here's my entry.
"The thought is there".
Congrats on another book.
Here it is.
http://babbleamble.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/firstkiss/
password is firstkiss
My contribution
Congratulations on the book! It looks absolutely lovely.
G'Day I am back, and here's my entry.
First Kiss @ jaerose-jaerose.blogspot.com
Here's my First Kiss.
And congratulations!
http://workingwithouttools.blogspot.com/2009/10/once-this-happened.html
i wasnt up to it to perform last week, but i got overly excited this week and i have shared something relaly personal.
yes my personal experience.
but in third person.
a very close piece to my life.
hope you enjoy the read.
My First Kiss
Nothing can beat this:
holding on my breath
I could not delete the other comment.....I think it is wrong...
http://www.wordiminuta.blogspot.com/
Congratulations!
I'm back, and here's my story for this week...
http://sophie-sez.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-kiss.html
First kiss prompt? I'll bite! . . . first kiss
& Congrats!
I posted my Sunday Scribblings entry at http://phyllisophy.blogspot.com/2009/first-kiss.html
You can read mine at: http://inhale-exhale-inhale.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-scribblings-first-kiss.html
I didn't realize my first kiss was so complex until I wrote this.
First Kiss
Congratulations on the book, love the illustrations too!! Beautiful!
Here's mine for the week!
First Kiss
The soft brush of an angels touch...the third kiss. Sorry Laini...I do remember my first kiss but I just cannot talk about it. I am either too old or too young. Who knows. This is the kiss I will always remember and love to talk about.
http://torristravels.blogspot.com/2009/10/angel-whisperthe-kiss-of-baby.html
Laini...I really would not mind typing in a password to block the spammers. I did that on my blog and they went away. You could also block anonymous posts. Just a thought.
Thank you so much for the prompts.
b
Congrats on the book!
Here is my First Kiss:
http://smallworldreads.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-scribblings-first-kiss.html
such a lovely prompt :)
http://irishcatholicpottymouthdeux.blogspot.com/
I get lots of that Chinese gibberish too. Make it stop.
here is my first entry to Sunday Scribblings.
http://lequirkychic.livejournal.com/1003.html
Happy weekend all - here you go. Hope my link works :)
First Kiss
Congratulations on the book!
I haven't Scribbled in awhile, trying ti get back into the groove with: http://poppyinprovence.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-scribblings-first-kiss.html
Thanks for the memory lane visit I just took.
http://www.wheeallthewayhome.com/2009/10/first-kiss-sunday-scribblings.html
CONGRATULATIONS, Laini...
I haven't participated in ages, but "first kiss" was too delicious to resist. Find my scribbles here:
http://migrationsummer.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-kiss.html
Huge congratulations on the book - inspires me to crack on with mine!
My entry for First Kiss
http://all-the-wright-stuff.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-kiss.html
To Mel: I tried to leave a comment and blogger tanked on me and just kept reloading the page - Loved, loved, loved the story. So real and timely - I would have totally hung out with your characters in high school :)
Got a bit carried away and wrote another...
http://all-the-wright-stuff.blogspot.com/2009/10/come-here-gorgeous.html
Many wishes on the release of your book....Will surely take time out to read it.
Here's my first kiss...
http://songofsea.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/the-first-kiss-that-is-yet-to-be/
SOMETIMES NO GROWTH IS A GOOD THING – THE TUMOR IS A RUMOR
Crazy-happy congratulations to you, Laini! You’re a marvellous inspiration : )
And on a more mundane note, here's my weekly scribbling.
Carp Dime
http://annos-place.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-scribblings-first-kiss-because.html
@ MEL:
Yeah, Mel your piece rocked. I coulda composed some kinda poem out of my favorite of your ether-reaped lines.
Blogger needs a come-to-Jesus talk, though.
I wrote about my first "dirt kiss"-it was a doozy...
http://djpare.blogspot.com/2009/10/fiction-based-on-prompt-from-sunday.html
http://babbleamble.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/firstkiss/
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It's me again! I am a few post above :) decided to switch blog providers so here is my new link to "Magical Kiss".
http://lequirkychic.blogspot.com/2009/10/sunday-scribblings-first-kiss-magical.html
Long time since I posted for SS,
here's my take:
http://keyboardpecker.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-one.html
you should read my blog Moving Stars - First Kiss
@ D:
Is it me, or are your comments not enabled?
Your “In The End” is genius, wild and real. In my opinion : )
Dear Laini - warm congratulations on your book!!! I'm so happy for you :)
thanks for the ongoing inspiration ...
here's my first kiss descent
peace & love,
JP/deb
I remember my first french kiss but it was not nearly as sweet as the peck I had with my first love after 8th grade graduation. This prompt reminded me of that simple but very special peck. My novel Lives Lived span the childhood and adult life of a woman with bipolar illness. I need to be able to recall the sweet parts of childhood in order to create her younger years. Thanks for the prompt!
I kind of wrote mine before I ever saw this. I was out of town and had written a bunch of pieces that I had set to be published while gone... First Kiss was one of them... here is the link to it...http://kreativoutlet.blogspot.com/2009/10/first-kiss.html
Enjoy!
How exciting! Congrats!
http://talentornotalent.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/eighth-of-july/
doing some old ones since I just found this blog :)
http://pagesofunknown.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/sunday-scribblings-first-kisses/
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