a) An experiment
b) A one-of-a-kind book
c) a story told in blog form
d) a story told in poetry
e) all of the above

E!

Totally Unfamous came about because of…you! I was receiving so many letters from fans of the Becoming Beka series (check out the sidebar) begging for more books that I just had to think of something! I wasn’t ready to write the rest of Beka’s story yet, so I decided to embark on a spin-off. I started thinking about telling Lucy’s story but “she” kept wanting me to tell it through poems. I loved the idea and fell in love with this type of story-telling. I hope you will love it, too. This is a way for my fabulous fans to have a new story without waiting forever. No worries, I’m still at work on projects that will become actual books, but for now, I hope you grow to love Lucy as much as I have.

In “Totally Unfamous” you will find Lucy at seventeen years old, a little more than two years after the Beka series ends with “The Encore”. Every day (with permission to beg off a day here and there) I will post several new pages of the story. You can read along as I post or you can wait until it’s all online and read it from beginning to end. Whatever you’d like!

Now, I definitely want you to share the web site address with anyone you think would love Lucy’s story. But please note:

You can link using the web address (www.totallyunfamous.com) and the button at the bottom of the sidebar. You can tell others what you think. But please, please, please, do not copy and post any of the poems anywhere without my express permission. This is super-important to me and since I am providing this story free of charge, I ask that you protect what I worked so hard on for the last six months.

Thanks for stopping by and if you want to contact me, you can find me here.

About Lucy

Lucy, 17
Nowheresville, USA

You are about to read my story. I don’t mind sharing it because you don’t know who I am. Being totally unfamous has its advantages.

What they see

They see
a gymnast
a girl
an athlete
a student

someone quiet
someone average
someone small

They don’t see
so much
They don’t wonder
if every time I flip
my body into the air
doing some crazy trick
someone
somewhere
once did
if maybe I haven’t
lost myself
in this gym
I call
home

About the Author

Sarah Anne Sumpolec

Sarah is the author of the Becoming Beka series from Moody Publishers. The five book series is written for young adults, the real ones, and the ones that won’t admit to never really growing out of loving YA fiction. You can find out all about her books, her passions, and her speaking at her official website. She really only gets to write when she can squeeze in some computer time, since she spends most of her time being a wife and a mom. And she wouldn’t have it any other way.