Inspiring

Remember how I said that J Scott Savage was pretty dang cool? Well, he just moved up to pretty dang AWESOME! in my book (if you and me use a different scale, that's two notches above pretty dang cool). Here's why:

Kyle gets a little more excited about going to author events than your average 11 year old boy. Mostly because he plans on being an author. And not in a when-I-grow-up kind of way; in an as-soon-as-humanly-possible kind of way. So, he waited around until the line to sign books / posters was gone, then went to talk to Mr. JSS. Kyle told him that he was writing a book, and that he had his own writing blog. JSS told him that he thought that was very cool, and asked Kyle to email him his blog address, and he would check it out.

On the way home, Kyle said that when he gets his first book published, in the acknowledgements section, he was going to thank JSS for "being inspiring." About 1.5 seconds after we walked in the front door, Kyle was on his computer, emailing JSS.

The very next day, Kyle got a comment from JSS on his blog! He was so excited to be validated / encouraged by an actual author. He is still floating around on the high from that, and probably will be for some time. If you see Kyle out and about, ask him about it-- you'll likely see his enthusiasm level immediately raise tenfold. What a great thing for that author to do! Inspiring, indeed.

You can check out Kyle's blog HERE. Just click on the comments for "What the areas are like...." and you can see the comment JSS left for him.