I had written with a ballpoint pen, in print, with no lines to guide me, using the bench of the locker room as a writing surface. Nothing about that letter was attractive by the time I was done. I finally got out some words that I thought seemed earnest, and then I pulled out a sheet of Jill’s art paper and copied it, trying hard to be neat.

My work schedule started an hour later that day, so I hung out in the locker room after 5th period to work on the letter some more. He has decided that the notes are coming from a ghost, because they magically appear and are clearly written just for him.

Mark has been finding notes giving him advice as to how to write the perfect love letter to impress the girl he loves. And feel free to scroll back and enjoy the other excerpts from guest authors posted before and/or leave a comment. If you’d like to learn more about Passing Notes, skip on over to my page dedicated to it here, or click on one of the buy links posted below. I promise if you read the book, you’ll understand why the ghost is a good fit for this theme, but I don’t want to give too much away here. So, I’m going to share a scene between Mark and the ghost that seems to be more than willing to give him some fatherly advice. In my YA novella Passing Notes, Mark has a dad, but he doesn’t play a prominent role. As I mentioned in my post at the beginning of the month, a lot of times in YA and MG novels the father is absent in the book, but there is still a fatherly figure. We’re celebrating fathers all month long on the blog.

Passing Notes by D.G. Driver