Dear Anonymous Sponsor,

Thank you so much for your financial recognition toward my career goals. It will go far in helping me to continue toward my pursuit of success as a writer.

I look forward to being able to help others when I can return the generosity you’ve shown. I am very grateful and will wisely use this help in my career pursuits.

As an update: I attended the Yosemite Writers Conference last summer on a scholarship, where I was able to meet with best-selling author David Morrell. He has also offered to mentor me and we communicate regularly. I am now in a location that allows me to participate in classes offered by my mentor Bonnie Hearn Hill. From the combined efforts of David and Bonnie, as well as my continued college education, I have learned much and grown significantly. I am aggressively writing a new novel, DEAD KINGDOM, which is the first manuscript in a series titled THE SUB-ROSA LIST. My goal is to finish it this summer, and will send out to agents soon afterward while I attend college full-time. It is all very exciting, and I’m eagerly looking forward to what the future holds. :-)

This very generous gift has been an amazing blessing, and has helped me to continue striving, as I definitely feel I am headed in the right direction. I am thankful beyond belief. Whoever has done this for me . . . thank you.

I hope those who read this, or hear of this, know that dreams should always be followed because hope and desire are tremendous motivators. Hold onto your dreams and know, as long as you are determined, anything is possible and everything is within reach. ‘You’ must believe in yourself, be willing to work hard and never, never give up.

Sincerely,

Jillian Ward

Dear Anonymous Donor,

Thank you for your generous encouragement and continued faith in my future endeavors. Because of your help and financial support I am able to work toward my dream. I am sincerely moved and I thank you again.

As an update in my writing: I have completed my second novel, and edits have begun! I will be soliciting an agent soon.

Sincerely,

Jillian Ward

Dear Anonymous Donor,

I thank you again for your continued support and belief in me. It could not have come at a better time.

Though ‘thank you’ is all that you might want, the following is a poem that I think you might enjoy. It was written for my poetry class last semester, and is based off a love triangle that is in my current series THE SUB-ROSA LIST. It’s told from the girl’s perspective, just her introverted take on things, but though the poem ends happily . . . it doesn’t give anything away.

As an update, I am having more fun than I ever have had with editing. VALEDICTION is really coming along. School slowed me a little bit, but hopefully I’ll be sending out to agents very soon. I am signed up for fall semester and have the second novel to THE SUB-ROSA LIST planned out and ready to find life on paper, for which I am extremely excited about.

Thank you again for everything. I wish you well in all the things you do.

Sincerely,
Jillian Ward

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