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Deborah Hawkins, penned Debra Renée Byrd, began writing after a blank book project in elementary school and never stopped, fashioning stories based on her favorite TV shows and movies before creating more original works. She studied at the University of the Arts and Florida State University before settling down and graduating from Temple University. She now resides in her hometown of Dover, DE, where she spends most of her time at work or at church. She loves fantasies, superheroes, is a trekkie and a brown coat. She loves television and lives for Final Fantasy video games, having collected most of them. She has read a myriad of authors, and her favorite authors change whenever she finds a new book that changes her life... "When you can't run, you crawl. When you can't crawl...well, you know the rest." -Tracey, Firefly, "The Message"

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Friday, March 1, 2013

Back From the Future Blogfest!

What's this?? 3 in 1 day?! It must be my birthday. Well, it's not. Is it yours?! This is what happens when I catch up on a week's worth of blogs in one day. I blog binge. My final bite is for this blogfest Ninja Warrior Alex posted, and it's hosted by M. Pax, Suze, and Nicki Elson. It seems like a really cool thing to do, and since Save the Queen (tie-in) deals very much with my MC's future, I thought I should do this for myself as well! And away I go.

This is a bloghop! Click here!

You’re up before dawn on a Saturday when the doorbell rings. You haven’t brewed your coffee so you wonder if you imagined the sound. Plonking the half-filled carafe in the sink, you go to the front door and cautiously swing it open. No one there. As you cast your eyes to the ground, you see a parcel addressed to you … from you.

You scoop it up and haul it inside, sensing something legitimate despite the extreme oddness of the situation. Carefully, you pry it open. Inside is a shoebox — sent from ten years in the future — and it’s filled with items you have sent yourself.

What’s in it?

The first copy of Save the Queen signed by myself to myself letting me know I did it!

The VMD (it can play movies AND music!) of the movie directed by Bryan Singer with original scores and covers composed by me!

A picture of my husband with my 7-yr-old, 5-yr-old, and 2-yr-old children (Can't wait to see who THEY are lol).

Oh, look! A picture of our anniversary! We're holding the turtles in the Turtle Farm on Grand Cayman! He got the hint. hahaha

An autographed copy of Britney Spears' platinum single "Dance", thanking me for putting myself out there and sending her the song.

And one more, because I'm ambitious after all, a copy of my contemporary gospel album Speak!.

Yay. What's in your shoebox?!

14 comments:

nutschell said...

Those are awesome gifts from your future self. :) Love that Brittney Spears autographed single:)

Nutschell
www.thewritingnut.com

Julie Flanders said...

Love the VMD playing the Save the Queen movie, that's awesome. Great list! :)

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

Books and music - there you go! Dream big.

Suzi said...

Love the Brittany Spears one. So you're gonna be a fiction writer and a song writer too? I can only handle one thing at at time. :)

Charmaine Clancy said...

Gorgeous blog and fun post. Good to have dreams :)

Mark Means said...

(A late)Howdy from the blog hop!

Loved your post and I think it's great you not only write, but sing too. Best wishes on both fronts!

Susan Flett Swiderski said...

You've got a lot of work to do, so you'd better get to it! (Once those kids come along, they're gonna take most of your time, ya know.)

Loved it. I hope all your dreams represented in that box of goodies come true.

Catch My Words said...

Looks like you got some good stuff. All I got was a--hey wait a minute, you'll just have to read for yourself.

http://joycelansky.blogspot.com

Nicki Elson said...

Blog binge - I declare that the best social-network term of 2013. Well done!

Your time capsule is awesome. If you could make copies of everything and send it on over to me, I'd be much obliged. I'm so happy this hop sounded fun enough for you to hop on.

Lisa Southard said...

Splendidly ambitious- good thing you have ten years to get it done :-)

Anonymous said...

I'm so lazy with the songwriting at this point it's ridiculous. lol So I'm not handling both very well at the moment. XD

Anonymous said...

Thanks! Once the husband comes along, I'm sure he'll slow things down, too. lol

Thanks again!

Anonymous said...

Yay! lol

Thanks for hosting it! It was really fun, and encouraging!

Anonymous said...

Thanks everyone for the comments and encouragement! I've started hopping around, so see you on your blogs. :D