Fun Five: Author Shari Maurer

Jul 10, 2010 by shanyn

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1. What is your favorite kind of candy?
Nerds Rope, Jelly Bellies and Whoppers (was I allowed to pick 3?)

2. What’s the best New Year’s resolution you have ever made?
Instead of falling asleep at night with my mind racing through everything that’s bugging me, I try to list 5 things that were good during the day. I’m finding it sends my night thoughts into a more positive direction.

3. What animal are you most like? Why?
This one has been stumping me, so I did one of those on-line “what animal are you?” tests. It said “Wild Dog.” I wasn’t thrilled with that, but there it is.

4. What’s the first thing to come to mind when you hear the word “fun?”
Vacation: no school, work, obligations. Maybe traveling somewhere great.

5. At what time of day do you feel your best?
I used to be a total night bird, but now I’m finding I like getting up really early and sneaking in some writing.

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More about Change of Heart:
In a world where the most stressful thing seems to be winning a soccer game or what to wear in the morning, you take some really basic things for granted.

Like the love of your parents.

Or hanging with your friends.

Or the beating of your heart.

When you’re 16 years old, it never occurs to you that you might die. Emmi Miller’s got a fabulous life. She has tons of friends, does great in school and is an all-star soccer player who played in Europe last summer. It even looks like Sam Hunter, a totally cute baseball player, might be interested in her. And then she gets a virus. No biggy, right? Until the virus goes to her heart and weakens it so much that, without a transplant, Emmi will die.

Will Emmi get a heart in time? Is Sam too good to be true? What about her new friend Abe, who has also had a transplant and guides her through these scary times — is he just being supportive or is there more going on between them? And will Emmi realize it before it’s too late?

In honor of the release of Change of Heart, Shari is working on promoting organ donation registration. Please visit www.donatelife.net for more details on how you and your family can register to be organ donors.

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