The Final Cover On My Way Home!

   After weeks and weeks of waiting, the day is finally here.  After two covers the one is finally here!  

On My Way Home

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are getting closer and closer!  Keep on spreading the word!

 

 

Thanks

 

Allie Walker

On My Way Home

  Everyone asks me all the time what On My Way Home is about, and it is a difficult thing for me to do, but now I finally have an official answer to the question!



Official Description!

Clare LaFrace is a successful talent agent and mother of three daughters. Austin is the love of Clare’s life and the mostly-absent father of her daughters. Clare had Gabriella when she was only sixteen, and this family’s story has only grown more complicated with time. But though Austin’s parents have always stood between their son and his girls, he and Clare have never stopped loving each other and he has never been able to fully keep his distance.

Gabriella, the eldest daughter, is a high school graduate about to leave for Brown University. Upon learning her boyfriend is cheating on her, she dumps him and heads for home—but an emergency call from her best friend, Jason, sends her to his house instead. She arrives, suspecting a surprise going-away party to send her off to college. What she finds is certainly a surprise but one that will alter the course of her life forever.

 

On My Way Home is a story of a loving mother, her three daughters, unrequited love, and a torn family that tries desperately to mend itself. This emotional journey explores the resilient human spirit’s struggle in the face of life’s unexpected tragedies.

First Book Cover Proof!!

I was given two image concepts and I have decided to go with the one below!  The final cover will be different, but I am just so excited I had to share!  (its nice to own the rights to your book!)

 

 

 

Let me know what you think!

 

Allie

 

Riley the Husky!

A few people asked me about our husky, so here is Riley in a nutshell! 

 

 

 

This sweet face turns into this idealistic picture perfect pup!

 

Then the real Riley reveals himself!

 

 

 

 

That's right folks, our Riley is part human!

Intro to Me

With the release of On My Way Home not terribly far away, (I will announce once its official) I realized that asking people to buy and read my book is a big request.  And of course I have hit the big time with my 631 Facebook fans (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Allie-Walker/1412244885656335), but I haven't really revealed too much about myself.  My fans are my friends and family, people I have most likely met through someone else, and there are those rare few who I don't know at all which is very exciting.

I must warn you before you go any further it is a strange thing to write about yourself, and if it stinks you should all know my best friend, Mandee, put me up to it.

For starters I am in my later twenties, I am happily married, and I own a husky and a Kia.  (Sound pretty cool so far right?!)  I have been writing ever since I could construct a sentence.  Now it was my own delusion to write books for living right after I got over the fact that being a famous actress wasn't in the cards for me.  I have always written in a journal as away to cope with whatever girl emotions I was experiencing at the time, and like the next gal they are always in overdrive. 

My whole life I have been spouting out this ridiculous idea stating that I am going to do something incredible with my life, and that was met with its fair share of eye rolls.  In fact my grandfather and grandmother said to me at the age of twelve, "Alisha, you aren't going to do anything but flip burgers and be knocked up by sixteen."  There were a few other choice words that aren't worth mentioning, but that is what I grew up with.  People never believing in me, always pushing me down, always telling me what I couldn't do.  I am pretty sure that if bullying was the big deal like it is today back then I would have been on the news for my triumphs, but it's character building and I am stronger because of it.  I had it rough, never easy, but always I said that it could be worse. 

While growing up I witnessed the miracle of my mother raising three children on a fast food salary.  I helped out when I was old enough to get a job, but until then I'm not really sure how she managed.  She taught me a lot about life, and how you have to make your own way, and that lesson has been invaluable.  Speaking of my mother she is a big reason that On My Way Home even exists.

On My Way Home began on one of the darkest weeks of my life.  I had been thrown devastating news twice that week, and the cherry topper was that someone at a camp for kids with developmental disabilities stole $500.00 from me.  I spent my whole life keeping it together, pushing forward, moving on, but that week I had lost the strength.  I had to leave work early and I went home and cried.  My boyfriend who is now my husband recommended I go talk to a counselor, and I knew it was that or a nervous breakdown.  The therapist talked to me about my mom and her health and the other aspects of my life of things I had pushed to the side.  She brought it all back to the surface, and she asked me what I did for myself?  I thought for a moment not really able to think of anything, and then I said, I write.  She instructed me to write it all down.  I went home that night, and I wrote like I never had before, and the first three chapters of On My Way Home was born.

Now that was only beginning.  I didn't write anything else for On My Way Home for a few years, but the characters never strayed far from my mind.  I was working at a printing company, and I had gotten a phone call from the most annoying person in the world, like this girl was probably related to Gilbert Godfrey.  Something clicked inside, and told me that I did not want to be answering phones or processing payroll for my entire life.  It made me wonder what happened to that girl who said she was going to do something with her life?  I went home and I thought all night.  I thought about going back to school, I thought about what else I was qualified for, and then I thought about writing.   I had always been good at it, and I always enjoyed it.  That night I went to sleep, and in one of the most vivid dreams of my life I saw, Clare, Gabriella, Gemma, Giuliana, Jason, and Austin (main characters in On My Way Home).  The next day I started writing all through work barely stopping to eat lunch or dinner, and I have barely put my pen down since. 


That's a little bit of my story.  If there is any questions that anyone has for me comment below, and I will do my best to answer them. 

Allie Walker

Questions??

The last couple of weeks have not been easy to say the least.  I have been thinking a great deal about my career and how I should approach it.  I know that On My Way Home will be successful, and the Forgotten life (my second novel) will hopefully share the same success.  My question that I have been asking myself is do I challenge myself to write outside of my chosen genre for the first two books?

I feel as a writer it can become mundane to write the same type of story over and over again, and I have yet to do that, but the temptation is there.  If the first book is so successful why mess with the formula and write something completely off the wall like a fantasy series?

Do you think readers will follow the author even if it isn't normally their type of book?  Do you think that an author can write well enough to be successfully diverse?  I am throwing these questions out into the void of the internet, and whether they are answered or not well I will personally most likely go with my instincts.  

Until next time.


Allie Walker

On My Way Home, the hiccups.

  So I have been shopping this story up and down the block that I have written a book, and it is to come out at so and so date.  Well lets just say I have learned a lot the last two years, and perhaps started my grey hair process a little early.  But none of it matters at the end of the day.  I could spend hours (which I have) crying about things that I have no control over, or I can put on my big girl pants and get over it and be productive. 

Option two is what I have done my whole life.  I never like to complain in general because there are people out there that have it far worse than I do, and I like to remain positive and be grateful for the things in my life.  With that being said, I have chosen to look at my situation as a blessing.  It is a blessing that I wrote a book that almost found success with the traditional publishing industry, it is a blessing that I have a great support system that wants to see the book in print as much as I do, and it is a blessing to be living in an era where self publishing isn't the taboo that it use to be. 

I know that I will be doing the leg work which is fine because I worked in fast food for five years and if I can do that I can do anything.  There is such a buzz locally around On My Way Home that is overwhelming and exciting.  If everyone just spreads the word and incessantly call your local book store and ask them to stock On My Way Home we will be selling at a national level in no time.  


I plan to update as much as possible and keep everyone informed.  Thank you for the continued support and motivation!  It is indeed priceless!


Allie Walker