About Nal 4 America!
Hello!
Well to cut to the chase my name is Nalini and I’m very boring. I’ve been involved with history for a while. I mean, I always liked it, but I didnt discover I was actually passionate about it until I had a very good history teacher in high school who thought I was good at it and I should take a historical trip and an AP test on it. So I did. The trip changed my life really. I went to DC, not for the first time, but it was a very indept look at the United States government system. I learned so much in a short period of time and I slept for two days when I came home(my dad would wake me up because he thought I needed food). When I woke up I decided that I wanted to do something with history in my life but I didnt know what. Taking the AP test really helped me to learn intricate details about early American history and our government system. From this I was able to write a pretty good letter to our state senator about my issues with smoking and the government supporting such habits with taxpayer dollars. Not only did I become a non-smoking advocate (it was short lived…I dont preach the word anymore) but I earned my self a telephone call from our State Senator Bob Bennett. He was very impressed with my 16 year old concerns. I got invited to a non-smoking sit in at the Capitol. It was all very exciting. Anyway I’m waaaaaaaaaaay off point…..
Prior to all this I had been writing a book about a mixed up teen aged girl. It was set in the post civil war time period; my favorite time period at the time. I decided to change the enter concept of that book into an entire series modeled similarly to books that Gilbert Morris or John Jakes would write; a series about a family set in historical events through American history.
I wrote a series set in the Civil War time period but after those 8 books were finished I decided to go further(hey, my parents never let us leave the house, I had a lot of free time) and start from the beginnings. So I started my series from the time of the pilgrims. Once I got that far back, I decided to go further. So in reality there are two series of books. The first series that I write about is actually the second series. I decided to put the second series out first because I think its better done and its how I originally wrote them. So the first series starts with a story about two people who travel to America on the Mayflower. The second series, which is actually the first(why cant I make things easy?) is the story of that family prior to America. I know this all seems REALLY interesting and the fact that you are still reading is beyond bizarre. I dont have a fantastic story line thats going to turn into a mini series like John Jakes does(well I am still crossing my fingers) but my goal is to write a very historically accurate fiction. Its a hard concept to do, which is why its taken me 12 years to write over 30 books. But its what I enjoy, its my passion. Its the one thing that I know I can do well. So I’m going to share with the world for the first time what I have been scribbling in numerous notepads for the past 12 years. One day I hope I can find an editor to read this and say, wow this could be a book if you just did this…..so feel free to criticize. Any feedback is good feedback. And thanks Todd for believing that I might have something here. You are the driving force behind this being public. You are the real pilgrim that rocks!
XOXO
Nalini, aka, the coolest person to ever have their job eliminated at thk.