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Book: Pretend (Pretend Series) by Sharlay
categories: Book, Romance, Teen, Young Adult, Fun, Cute, LoveSharlay

I first began writing this book in January 2012 on a free book site called wattpad. I had read a lot of teen love stories/young adult love stories and really wanted to write my own and so I finally decided to give it a try. After writing only a couple of chapters I realised that I was in love with writing this style of story and just kept writing more and more. After a crazy amount of advertising, late and sleepless nights Pretend seemed to attract audiences from all over the world and eventually left the book with a 3.2 million read count on the wattpad site (which goes up in the thousands everyday). After receiving many messages asking where the book could be purchased I finally decided to investigate the matter further and on November 20th 2012 the paperback & kindle version of Pretend was born. With all of the excitement of publishing it was only later drawn to my attention by a fellow wattpad author that Pretend had also made the Watty Awards finalists(wattpads annual writing competion) under the teen fiction-on the rise section. I was of course so excited to see that what was once a simple idea in my mind had become an actual book that not only people liked but were buying! I was absolutely overwhelmed with joy when I sold 200 copies of the book in the first two weeks of it being published and it continues to rise daily.
I just want to say a huge thank you to all of you out there that supported Pretend on this journey, it really does mean the world to me and I am so grateful because without you this would be impossible. God Bless <3
Also I just want to encourage others and say that if you have a dream then never give up, if it is what you truly want. Before Pretend I had written a few unsuccessful books on wattpad but I took the negativity from it and turned it into a positive. So never give up, just learn from your mistakes.
My new saying is this...
"A mistake is only a bad thing when you refuse to learn from it..."
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