Monique Tether

Monique Tether is a children, teen and adult author. She is probably one of the most imaginative writers, since she once mentioned in an interview that she uses her Dreams to create scenes in her books. This is what makes all of her writing's so unique.
<big>Monique's Life</big>
Monique Tether has been writing books since she was only five, and has a love for mystery and horses.
"Mystery and Horses are not brought together very often, I figured I could be one of the first." Monique says in her blog.
Monique was never very girl-like growing up, she would always sneak away from the school groups and would visit the horses across the street. Of course, this made her dress's dirty, so of course her mother forbid her from ever seeing the "Nasty Creatures" again. Monique took her mother's blows and got right back up, and offered to do all the laundry to prevent her mother from seeing the dirty clothes. And that couldn't have been easy with a father whom is a contractor and an older sister and brother.
Monique's very first mystery book was called Fatal Rose. It was, however, never published. She wrote it when she was only ten, but when her mother found it she tore it apart and burned the remaining. "The day that happened I never wrote in school books again!" Monique says.
Growing up with a mother whom hates animals and a father whom hates books couldn't have been easy, she had to result to keeping her books at friend's houses, and she would even bury the important ones in the back yard.
By the time Monique was fifteen she had written hundreds of books, many never made it to be read by her friend's in school.
When Monique became eighteen she left home and inherited a horse farm. It is there that she met her true love Tom Boy (her nickname for him) and the two started a romance.
He taught her all the ropes of horseback riding, and for two years they stayed together.
"Our romance didn't last though," says Monique, "Tom Boy got a job, and after a while, found out that he had to transfer to New York. That's not very close to Georgia, and if I went with him, my beloved horse Mystic would have to stay behind. So I chose to stay, and I never saw Tom Boy again."
Before that, however,Tom Boy proposed to Monique, twice. Both times he was turned down for one reason...
"I can't be committed to a man. I don't like being weighed down, having to worry about a man whom probably won't love me in ten years. I loved him, he loved me, so we stayed together long enough, and surely enough, he left. If we were married, it would be either get divorced or leave Mystic, and I couldn't do either."
Monique continued her love for horses, however, her love for writing ended, and she didn't write a word for two years.
However, one night her writing grew more each minute. She had been walking her horse on a full moon one night, and a thought came to her.
"Wow, Mystic, Look at that Moon." Monique said to her horse, she says that as she shortened it more and more it became Mystic Moon, and that is where her book took off.
"I jumped in the house and started writing that very night." says Monique.
<big>Monique's Writing, AKA the birth of Mystic Moon</big>
Mystic Moon was born on the night of October 2008, at roughly 12:20.
The book skyrocketed Monique's career, but on the day the book's fourth chapter came into print, Monique's horse Mystic fell to colic.
"I called a thousand vets at two in the morning, and they all said that they were either sleeping, with another patient, or that the horse will die soon anyway. One doctor gave Mystic only eight minutes to live, so I bought my time slowly."
Two days later, after seeing twenty vets, Mystic died in his sleep after suffering an uncontrollable colic.
However, Monique continued writing a week later, knowing that her horse died in his sleep, and wasn't suffering any longer.
The book became published two weeks later, it was an extremely short book, though, but you can't blame Monique after what she went through.
"Soon, people started begging for a sequel, they wanted to know about the adoption and Mystic and the murders and Blah, so I began writing Mystic's Story, the second Mystic Moon book."
From this point, Monique was sort of tired of the real world, and began putting her dreams into her stories, and created magical characters, and evil queens and powerful sources. She made a magical world, and the first and second books became totally different stories, with the same characters.
After the second book was published, her popularity with children skyrocketed, and she was rated 1# Childhood writer, by her many fans.
Soon, her friends helped her build a website entitled Monique Tether Online, where fans of the book and Monique's work can talk in forums, play games, share drawings and write their own stories.
Then, the third book came into production, Time's Tale's.
"In this book, everyone has grown older, seven years older to be exact. Amy has a boyfriend, and boyfriend problems do emerge."
The book focused more on Amy and less on Alicia, the main character. Amy becomes the main character, and as a seventeen year old, temptation brings stress, you are on the verge of adulthood, but you are still a child in a way. So, when Amy finds Jason, the bad boy in school, she is more than ever tempted. He's good looking, he's sweet (for her) and he's tempted too. The third book mostly deals with the problems of a teenager, and the consequences you get if you give in.
"That book wasn't popular with teens, but kids did like it. The reason why it wasn't so popular with teens is because TEENS DON'T READ!!! I was stupid to make a teen book, until audible came around. Then I found out that teenage girls read, not teenage boys, which is okay because it was more of a girl problem book. So now, the book is popular with teen girls, but not teen boys."
At the end of her third book was a cliff hanger, did Amy's family die in a bomb?
Well, it was taken care of in the fourth book.
The fourth book left Amy on her journey to find Queen Abbey and destroy her.
"Everyone's favorite part of the book was Rico, the French talking quick acting Bunny. After the Fourth book ended with yet another cliff hanger, readers begged for Rico to have a big part in the next book. Some kids told me that Rico's part helped them learn a little bit of french, since I have a translator in the book to translate what Rico says.
The fifth book is the last book, and may just be the best book, as it takes the cliff hangers and throws them off cliff.
Currently, movie companies have been contacting about the possibilty of a movie deal, which would be great news for kids whom don't enjoy reading.
Overall, Monique's writing all started with one thought, and as all books do, that one thought becomes a dream, and dreams become reality.
<big>Links</big>
Monique Tether's Main website http://www.moniquetetherbooks.webs.com
Monique Tether's Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=100001054426638
<big>Sources</big>
Mystic Moon book 4 page 3 Monique's Journey written by Monique Tether
Monique's Life written by Monique Tether
and several other interviews.

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