Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year, I wish everyone happy holidays and hope you have a good time with family and friends :)

Merry Christmas

Hello all, it's been awhile since I have talked, I have been busy with finals in school, but I'm back to talk again :) Christmas is around the corner, it's just five days away so happy holidays and merry Christmas to you all, I hope you all have a good Christmas.

News about Eden's Secrets

Hey everyone, how are you? my ebook Eden's Secrets is 99 cents on amazon kindle, feel free to check it out :)

Dreams

Hello everyone, I wanted to talk about dreams today, I know you all have a lot of dreams and I would love to hear from you about your dreams and you all want most out of life. I know for myself I didn't know what I wanted to be for the longest time, I was trying hard to figure out what I wanted to be, but I didn't know at first. My mother read a book called Just Who Will You Be? by Maria Shriver and from what I heard about the book, it is a really good book. 

My mother told me about Maria Shriver's book, and the part that stuck with me was when my mother quoited Ms. Shriver's book saying, "When I grow up," my mother loved that part of the book and I loved it too. My mother said to me a few years ago, "when I grow up, I want to go to college," my mother smiled when she said that. Than one day my mother went to college and achieved her goal or rather her dream. 

My mother told me her dream was to go to college, and she reached her dream. I was and still am inspired by my mother, she's my role model, she's a lovely person and I want to be just like her. My mother was also my home school teacher from grades 1 through 12. When I was younger my mother put a love of reading and writing in my heart and the funny part about this is that I hated reading and writing, I thought it was the enemy and I couldn't stand it. 

I thought reading and writing was a complete waste of time, until one day my mother brought home some mystery novels with a touch of horror and I was hooked ever since :) After a while when I got older, I started reading other genres and that was when I found Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, I was really enthralled with her book and I couldn't wait to read part two of her book series. Stephenie's book series inspired me to start writing, but it was nothing long at first, it was really short :) 

Actually, at first, all I could write was the endings of my stories and that was it :) My mother would encourage me to write more, I would read my endings to my mother and she said with a smile, "If we could just get a beginning and a middle, then your ready to go," my mother would laugh when she said this and I would too, that's me, I sometimes do things backwards :) LOL. But anyway, I kept writing and writing and as I wrote, I had no idea I was writing Eden's story. 

I started writing her story back in 2006 or 07. At first Eden started out as a drawing, I love to draw, drawing helps me to relax and chill, and drawing also inspires a lot of my characters I write about. But anyway, Eden started out as a drawing, Eden was a young woman with sad eyes, and the way I drew her told me she was a story in the making, but I didn't know where to go with her untold story. 

Than one day I watched a movie called One Night With The King, I think it came out in 2006, that was the movie that inspired Eden's story, I really love that movie. So I started to draw Eden's character more I wanted her to have a love interest, but every time I drew a man to go with her none would fit, so I was momentarily lost. For the longest time Eden didn't have a love interest, so I took a break and started to write her story, I didn't really get serious writing her story until 2009.

 I was writing fast, I had so many ideas, than in late 2009, I hit a writers block and I had no more ideas for her. I was so lost, but I thought, oh well, than I stopped writing, of course back than I didn't know I wanted to be a writer, I was just writing to relieve stress and relax. I stopped writing about Eden for a long time, but I tried other ideas, but none seem to work, so I took break even though I continued to daydream about Eden and how her story would unfold. 

I still wrote about other stories, and the funny part was the other stories I was writing about was really Eden's story and I didn't know it at the time. Four years later, which was in December 2013, I decided I wanted to be a writer, this was my dream and I wanted to pursue it, so back in December 2013 I officially started writing Eden's Secrets, finally giving the book a name, for fours Eden's book didn't have a name. As I wrote about her story, I finally found Eden's love interest, my mother helped me with his name, she told me to call him Alexander, I was so excited, so I drew his character, and after I drew his character, I knew how I wanted him to be, a kind, caring man that looks out for Eden, a shoulder she could cry on and give her heart too without him ever hurting her. Alexander was easier to develop than Eden, it took me years to figure out how I wanted Eden's personality, but it finally came in December 2013. Well, this is my dream and I finally found out what I wanted to be, I want to be a writer, so I started writing and I hope you enjoy my dream written in my book Eden's Secrets, I would love to hear your dreams, so please tell me your dreams :) My mother told me whatever you dream about, dream big, everything starts out as a dream, one day our dreams will come true.

Bill Cosby

What does everyone think of Bill Cosby? All these allegations, and now over 20 women have come out saying he had sexually abused them. This is crazy.

The Hobbit Part 3

Hello everybody, the Hobbit part 3 is coming out Dec. 17 and it looks awesome! I watched the last two movies with brothers and those movies were the bomb! I can't wait for it to come out, and here's another update, Guardians of the Galaxy is out today! Lol, that is a must buy. Look at that picture, its amazing! I would like to have the poster of it :)

Another Update for Eden's Secrets

Hello everyone, how are you? I wanted to tell everyone that currently I am offering my new ebook Eden's Secrets on amazon.com for free for five days, so free to check out my book. And check out my blog on goodreads.com

Update on Eden's Secrets

Here is the cover of my ebook Eden's Secrets, my illustrator Sam O'Neil drew this for me. I am glad to be able to write this story for all to read.  I have been working on this story for almost seven years, it took a lot of time, but it was worth it. I had a blast writing it.  But this story did give me a fit when I was writing it, let me tell you. Lol. This story was really complex, with all the different twists and scenes, it took a lot of time to make. I hope to help my readers to escape from life for a little while, going to a fantasy world were they enjoy themselves. That's why I like to read to help me to escape from life for a little while also, everybody needs to escape for a little bit. :) so I hope you all enjoy my new book.

The Legend of Korra

The Legend of Korra Book 3 came out Dec. 3, this is another awesome show, it is currently on its last season, that's truly sad because I love this show and I hate to see it end. I am a huge Avatar The Last Airbender fan, and when they brought out Korra I was so excited. My favorite Books of The Legend of Korra are Books 1 and 3, and Book 4 is all types of awesome. If you are new to the show, you should check it out on Nick.com it's a really cool show. I totally recommend it.

Guardians of the Galaxy and Jurassic World

Has anyone seen Guardians of the Galaxy? because this movie is awesome! I watched it with my brothers and I couldn't stop laughing, this movie was crazy, but in a good way, it comes out Dec. 9. Chris Pratt did a great job in this movie, I loved his character. I see he is going to be in the new Jurassic World movie coming out 2015! That looks awesome as well!

Ferguson and African American Males

Hello all, what do you all think about Ferguson Missouri and Eric Garner as well as African American Males being kill recently?

Eden's Secrets

Hello all, my name is Hope Hopkins check out my new #romance #adventure #ebook Eden's Secrets on Amazon.com #Kindle. Here is the link http://www.amazon.com/Edens-Secrets-Hope-Hopkins-ebook/dp/B00PHXILGK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1417476501&sr=8-1&keywords=eden%27s+secrets
here is what it is about: Princess Eden of Camden is being forced into marrying a man she does not love by her father King Orpheus. She only has two options, stay and marry a ruthless man she does not love or run away. All Eden's hope seems lost until her best friend Alexander the man she has loved since they were young children helps her escape. As Eden and Alexander are on the run from her father and the man she is to marry, they begin their dangerous adventure of survival.
I have more ebooks on the way, I am currently working on them right now so stay tune! :)